AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D: What Real Users Actually Think

The year is 2089. We've run out of water. Most of the world is at war over the last fresh water reservoir. AMD has just announced the Ryzen 3 5200X3D

Am4 regardless of what they release in the future has to go down as the goat socket

AM4 is still the main choice for building a cost effective gaming PC here in Brazil, the price difference for motherboards, CPU and ram to AM5 is not worth it.

Hardware is extremely expensive here. A 5700X3D in Brazil is about 320USD, in a country with a 265 USD monthly minimum wage (and half the population earns less than it). I'm glad that someone finally remembered that we exists and released a product that some gamers can actually afford.

This sounds like getting rid of the dies that didn't qualify for neither 5800x3d nor 5700x3d or even 5600x3d.

I am literally running the same motherboard today, with a 5700x3d, that I was running with a 1600x way back in 2017. The 5700x3d was a $112 AliExpress buy after some discounts. I will probably be running this for the next few years until AM6 rolls around. 10 years. Amazing.

this is no different than if intel released a 14599K with a 5% performance reduction to the 14600k… simply repackaging worse dies on a bad yield CPU isn't anything special

They'll do anything but bring back the 5700X3D and 5800X3D.

AM4 has stuck around far longer than I ever expected, and it still kicks ass to this day

Ryzen 5 5600X3D was Microcenter-exclusive and never became worldwide. If they had the stock to do a worldwide release I imagine they would have.

and honestly? that's cool as fuck. am4 still goes. specially for lower incomes. fair enough, here's yet another bone. I think it's excellent.

To be fair with the low prices of AM4 it is still a valid option to build a cost effective gaming system in most parts of the world. Its just that you miss out on the future upgrade path you would get with AM5. But AM4 is still solid and delivers really good performance that could get you by easily for 2-3 years for budget gaming builds.

For all intents and purposes AM4 died with the 5800X3D launch. That was the last actual meaningful launch.

"We're done when I say we're done" - Lisa Su

The 5500X3D is gonna crush the 5700G for gaming, that 3D cache makes a huge difference and you're already getting a dedicated GPU anyway so the integrated graphics on the 5700G are useless

and still matching Intel latest in games

There are probably more AM4 motherboards out there than all the other socket types combined. AMD would be ludicrous to not continue supporting it.

There is a massive market of people with ample DDR4 ram and old AM4 CPUs looking for a well priced upgrade. I hope they release a decent AM4 X3d CPU in the states again.

The 5500X3D has a very poor showing in productivity so perhaps the 5800XT would just be a better all-around pick especially if playing in 4K.

Pretty much. Stockpile dies not good enough for 5700X3D and sell them late.

Whatever fps a CPU can do at 1080p it can do about the same in 1440p or 4k. It's up to you to decide if you need a better CPU for your current build. With just a 3060ti at 1440p I doubt you would see much of a difference for most AAA gaming.

Thats salty, can imagine these being great for anyone still rocking a 3600 or lower

You already have a dedicated graphics card, so you absolutely must buy the 5 5500x3d. Its 96MB of cache brutally outperforms the 5700g, which only has 16MB. Games benefit greatly from the cache to run smoothly.

I don't know, x3d CPUs are primarily for gaming and 6 cores is still pretty reasonable for that. This seems like a decent upgrade for someone with an earlier gen am4 cpu who doesn't want to shell out major $ for a used 5800x3d or jump to am5.

Long term it's probably a decent move if the price is decent. Reason being is that the 3060Ti will be holding you back at 1440P. But when you upgrade that later on, the 5500X3D will still be a trooper and will work well with your next GPU.

I bought mine here in Latin America. Really good cpu for gaming. For productivity is a bit slow than the other non-x3d, but for gaming it is just incredibly better.

If you do any productivity beside gaming, even on some games that are not cache sensitive you gonna lose speed.

I doubt you'll see much difference ngl. I was also interested in it for my 5600x and I've seen benchmarks comparing online and sometimes it actually performs worse than the 5600x. Not worth it at all

Basically zero difference unless you like playing esports games

currently using amd 5 3600. if i upgraded to this, it would keep my am4 pc alive for another +5 years for my usage. i dont play anything too crazy. and gpu-wise most have been using nvidia 3060 gpus according to steam.

With a dedicated RX 7600 the 5700G's iGPU doesn't really matter, so you're mostly comparing gaming performance and cache. If the 5500X3D really has 3D V-Cache then that's usually the better pick for gaming at similar prices, especially for a living room setup where consistency matters more than raw core count. The 5700G only really makes sense if you ever plan to run without a GPU.

Got mine for around 185usd here in Argentina and I'm loving it so far with my RX 9060 XT, its day and night difference compared to my old i3 9100f that barely had 6mb of L3 cache. I finally get to play so many games that i missed out on playing for like the past decade, especially open world ones like KCD2 which is quickly becoming one of my all time favorites

For gaming, the 5700G is one of the slowest Ryzen 5000 CPUs you can buy. The 5500X3D will be about 25%~30% faster.

i did that same upgrade to my build, from a 5600g but with a 4060, on world of warcraft i got some serious more stable fps, double on crowded cities and 150-300 on dungeons, also went from 350-400 to almost 600 on valorant and warzone, stable 120 fps no dlss, just do it if you got the cash, that extra l3 memory does miracles

The 5500x3d is great if ur goal is high and stable fps for cpu intensive games (mostly esport games). If you're going to play AAA games, I don't think it's worth it. Maybe you should go for a 5700x or 5800xt.

Upgraded from a 3600X and I'm loving it

You won't see much difference. If you need slightly more performance, you can try overclock ram to 3800-4000mhz

Of course it's worth it, my friend, it's a big leap compared to the 5600g

It's a sidegrade at best. For pretty much everything non-gaming you'll have worse performance. For gaming, it depends on the game, most will run a bit better but some do like the higher core count and clock speeds on the 5700X. Not a worthwhile swap.

I would go for 5500x3D unless you keep 30 apps open in the background while gaming. The cache will be a lot more useful than extra cores that idle.

I have it, it's really good.

There's a great review on gamersnexus, the jump in performance is very nice, I consider going for it from my R5 5600 if I get a chance, I just hope that stock is large enough