AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT: Reddit's Verdict on a Chip Nobody Asked For

Not really much of a boost :( But hopefully it will drive down other model prices. I agree with Steve that this isn't a sensible chip to buy as an enthusiast building your own, but it makes sense for SI's as it is higher numbers and marketeers will feed off that.

The uplift over a 3800X is tiny (basically nothing in games, a couple percent maybe in some workloads, AMD themselves even say 4%). Buying that anywhere near the $400 MSRP is insane when you can get a 3800X for $300 (and a 3700X for $260). It gets hilarious when you realize you can buy a 3900X for the exact same $400.

They've been exceeding expectations since 2017, what are you even talking about.

Actually it's even better than that. I bought a 3700x last week from Amazon.de for 220€. Also just today I saw the 3700X + AC:Valhalla for 270€ on mediamarkt/ebay.

It already did. 3700x can be had for 275€, 3800x is 310€ and the 3800xt? Well that's around 400€ - basically DOA

The Ryzen 3000 XT series provides the same benefit as a service like Silicon Lottery: spend a premium to get a known-good silicon. It's not a particularly exciting product, and the benefit is questionable, but AMD never claimed that the Ryzen XT models offered anything more than a small clock speed increase.

It's just a touch faster than the 3700x but significantly higher in price. Feel free to grab it if you find one at the same price or less, but I wouldn't pay over a 3700x for it.

Definitely update your bios with your motherboard. Do this with care as you can brick the motherboard if not done properly, but this will ensure that ryzen is boosting correctly. Next, make sure you install Ryzen Master. This is both an accurate monitoring tool, and also a tool to either overclock or undervolt the cpu based on your needs.

Keep it at stock, maybe experiment with some BIOS off-set undervolts and see how stable it runs. I have a -0.125 offset on my 2017 X370 / start of 2020 3800X and 3800 XTs have even better silicon.

Ryzen 3000 series are getting the smart access memory as well so you can save a few bucks. My R9 3900x is a beast. A 3800xt should be more than enough and kick intels ass at the price point. Literally any choice you have posted is solid and will perform well.

The 3950X is so insanely binned already it runs cooler than the 3900x despite having 4 more cores and higher boost clocks.

This week in 'products that should not exist': the AMD XT series CPUs! Almost certainly a prelude to unnecessarily inflated Zen 3 launch prices.

Ryzen master lets you do manual overclocking without having to hop back and forth to the BIOS, dram calculator helps you speed up your ram by scanning it and tells you what to oc it to which can also be done in ryzen master.

It just seems ridiculous paying almost $400 for a 2-3-year-old processor that I will only get a 24% performance increase with. For around the same price (maybe $30 more), I can get an Intel Core i5-12600K (Which beats the Ryzen 7 5800X!) and a nice board with PCI-E 4 and 3 m.2 slots.

It's mostly because the X-series SKU's haven't been anywhere near MSRP for months. 3900X's and 3800X's have been 80-100 dollars off MSRP consistently for a while. These refreshes seem more intended to bump prices up so when the Zen 3 CPU's come out, people don't get sticker shock at the price difference between last gen and the new gen.

You're going to have bad microstutters with that combination. I had a 3800X when I upgraded to a 7800XT and the gameplay experience wasn't great. I upgraded to a 5800X3d a couple of months later and I got between 15-30FPS improvement depending on the game at 1440p and a much smoother gameplay experience.

just take 5700x3d and you are good another 3 years, on AM6 you upgrade it

For gaming in general you will get no noticeable improvement after the 3600x. If you feel the need for a little more umph then I'd say you should get the Ryzen 7 3700x. The problem is core clock. Even tho you add more cores most games cannot use them as they rely on individual core clock more. And no. The XT versions are not worth a extra 100$ for 2% gaming improvement.

I've got myself a new rig at the end of 2020 with the same 1440p 144hz display and RTX3070. There were plenty of FPS comparisons, where R5 5600X shows +10% FPS over R7 3700X in many games. I am very happy with the 4650MHz in boost mode, while 6 cores are more than enough for my tasks.

I went from a 2700x to a 3900x and it was a great upgrade. You will be glad.

It's not really a waste of silicon. They are for people who are willing to pay a lot for just a tiny bit more from AMD. AMD can also say that they are at single core perf parity again with Intel's best in some use cases. These aren't exactly mainstream products.

If you're looking at the 3800XT, would you also consider the 3900X? It's only about $20 more. Most reviews I've seen say the XTs are only worth it if you're going to overclock. Otherwise the price increase isn't worth the small speed increase.

I have considered the 3900X and the extra cores for video rendering are appealing, now even more so since I can see the XT really isn't worth the extra $80 for the same core count.

3800xt is piss poor value. get a 5600 if the 5700x is too expensive. it shouldn't make a noticeable difference anyway.

Yup its a beast, like most things there are no bad products just bad prices.

Yes, but it is typically overpriced. The i7-10700f is currently the best value 8-core cpu. 3700X is the best choice if you already have an AMD motherboard.

Using the dram calculator was the only way to get my ram run at the rated 3600 cl16. I used 1usmus CTR to undervolt my 3600. It gets 3700+ in cinebench20 with 1.2 volts and 4.1 GHz.

Don't overclock anything without a better cooler. Run it stock for a while to see if you need to think about overclocking.

I'm doing 3D modeling and rendering for work other than gaming. Bought myself a boxed 3700x 2 weeks ago. I was happy with it's performance in games and 3D rendering.

No, just keep your current rig and either wait for 5800X3D, get a 12700k or wait for next gen CPUs.

It is, depending on what other alternatives are available.

The advantage of a 5700 x3D (or 5800 x3D if you can find one for not much more) is that they will likely be drop-in upgrades in your current setup after a bios-update. Only the cost of the CPU, nothing else. The 9800x3D requires the CPU, new motherboard, new RAM, etc etc. It's a bigger and much more expensive proposition.

You'll be fine for now. If you get any stutters, cap your fps to your monitors refresh rate, and that should take a good bit of load off your system. Also, a nice PBO curve set in your motherboards bios will grab you some extra performance.

The 5700x will redeem itself by having a much lower power draw than the 3800 XT, better performance and better 'future proofness'. If you want to go cheaper go for a 5600.

5700x is stronger than a 3800xt and it draws less power too. I would settle for a 5700x.

5600/5700x/5000x3d are the only cpus that would make sense for an upgrade from the 3800XT.

3800XT is only 1-2% faster than a 3800X which is only 1-2% faster than a 3700X. The 5600X will be faster.

In most tasks the 5600x will be faster than the 3800 XT. You have to be in a use case that needs more cores over faster CPU cores.

People misjudge how capable the 3800X still is, its gaming performance is not that far off from the 5600X.

It'll be a really nice upgrade, the price is ridiculous though but if you wait your motherboard will probably have support for 5000 series.

I am considering buying a 3800xt for 115 on Facebook marketplace — real interesting to see how these cpus hold up with more games being made with PS5/Series X in mind.