AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D: What Reddit Really Thinks

Well... The 5800X3D ruined us. I think a lot of people were expecting a similar kind of jump without actually taking into account how insane the 5800X3D actually was and the fact that it disrupted AMD's AM5 sales. Guess I'm sticking with my 7900X

What this says to me is it's time to buy a 5800x3D

Great deal for those dumping Intel due to the severe issues their high end CPUs are facing.

For gaming, the X3D chips have the edge over the non X3D versions. In terms of value for gaming, the hierarchy is roughly: 7800X3D > 7950X3D > 7600X3D > 7900X3D > 7800X > 7950X > 7600X > 7900X

Man honestly, kind of disappointing. If you're into production, this is not it for you. If you're into gaming, there's no reason not to wait til the reviews of 7800X3D. The worries of being an asymmetry core holds some truth. Windows have no way to tell which cores to use better.

Basically, If you are on AM5 platform and have been waiting x3D. If you need productivity, get a 7950X. If you game, wait for 7800x3d.

It costs more on a more expensive platform.

I doubt we'll ever see anything like the 5800x3d ever again or at least for a long long time. It devastated am5 early adopters and has created jacked up expectations. Legendary chip but everything is going to be measured against it for AMD for awhile. The 79503d is good but 700usd good plus the am5 adoption fee? It's a tough ask if you have a 58003d

Am I missing something? 7950X3D uses about 50% less power than 13900K (156 watt vs 295 watt) with a slight overall gaming performance, and not that much production performance loss. Why is this a disappointment?

I would take the 10 to 15 fps LESS and gain a ton on the productivity side by getting the 7950x3d. You aren't going to miss those frames, and if you do, you could turn ONE item down. You can certainly see the time saved on the productivity side if you do that sort of thing.

Honestly I am not disappointed myself at the performance but I am at steps required to achieve it: Need Xbox app installed, Only balanced power profile, Performance anomalies (CS:Go). Only 8 cores are connected to extra cache. In exchange they have lower clockspeed. Then 8 remaining cores get disabled when gaming which usually helps. It's a weird design that seems to mostly work but there are caveats here and there.

It needs to be cheaper.

Yup. People forget that it was price cuts to the 5800x3D, cheap AM4+DDR4, and people already owning compatible boards and RAM that made the 5800x3D popular, at launch the 5800x3D didnt sell as well as it did months later.

No one going to mention how Game Bar is required for this? Very bizarre. One of the first things I disable in windows.

lol me exactly. Just put together a 14900k+4070S rig, started seeing all the news breaking/gamernexus vid. Next day went back to Microcenter (still in return Window) and changed directions --new rig is 7950X3D +7900XTX combo. Got a great deal. Pretty happy with the switch so far.

Exactly this. I can have multiple VMs running and doing their thing on the frequency cores, while playing CS2 or Elden Ring on the X3D cores with the same power as a 7800X3D, all at the same time. Whenever I need ALL of the cores for something, it's not that much of a loss vs a 7950X. This chip is a dream come true for me!

It is. But this is an underrated option for people who both game and do some sort of processing intensive task that benefits from a higher core count using the same system. It's not the best at anything despite its price, but it's quite good at everything.

This is me. A lot of these comments have me a bit confused. Everyone's saying it's a bad value if you're a pure productivity user, but I'm over here thinking that as a hybrid user, the incredibly minor losses in productivity are more than made up for via the excellent gaming performance.

IMO this is a great price for this, even with the 9000 series on the way soon. I picked this up for $595 a few months ago and still don't regret it one bit. This is absolute overkill if all you do is game. This is meant as a dual purpose chip for those that both game and need CPU-intensive productivity.

It definitely holds up because the price to performance ratio is hard to beat, but in the simulated (disabled CCD) reviews I've seen that took the time to test games that really benefited from the cache, the new cpu definitely laps it. Factorio was something like a 30% uplift over the 5800x3d.

7950x3d wins only in heavy work, for a gaming you should definitely get 9800x3d

There are people who run various productivity apps and who also enjoy running games every now and then. The 7950X3d will fit the bill for those people admirably. I would imagine that is a fairly high number of people. Sips power, compared to Intel, and runs faster in multicore and in gaming.

I have one of these and it's a godsend for both programming and gaming

The game bar is basically what tells the AMD driver or whatever that a game is running and then it basically shuts off the non 3d ccd. Pretty terrible implementation imo compared to what intel and microsoft did when alder lake launched.

What i heard and seen from videos 7950X3D is pretty bad for gaming performance, even 7800X3D beats it (currently considered the best gaming cpu). Well was, 9800X3D might be slightly better?

I bought mine for $500 a few months ago and it kicks ass. It needs a little tuning to get the most out of it. If you're willing to take time to learn how to use Process Lasso it can be a powerhouse chip. You can lock your games to the cache cores and lock everything else to the regular cores. It's basically a 7800X3D and a 7700XT in one. Awesome CPU

Is Process Lasso still necessary to better leverage 7900/7950X3D, or has the Xbox Game Bar + optimiser driver hack improved thread scheduling with updates? By improving I mean not parking frequency (CCD1) cores and essentially turning a 7950X3D into a slightly overclocked 7800X3D.

I bought 7950x3D for doing 3D cgi for work, and animation etc, and to game occasionally. CPU matters a little, but save your budget for GPU. The more time goes on, calculations are put more and more onto GPUs.

Most of those issues were because windows didn't treat the cores correctly. Windows update 24h2 fixed a LOT of the x3d issues. I'm debating on going from 7950x3d to 9800x3d just because you can overclock it. I only have the 7950x3d because the bundle was cheaper than the 7800x3d bundle when factoring in the motherboard each bundle came with.

Not true anymore. I just got a 7959x3d on sale a month ago and every game worked on the correct ccd. Even old 2012 games! The latest drivers, uefi bios, and game bar worked flawless. Process lasso was when the 3dcache was new

I just updated my bios and drivers and all settings/core parking remained, accordingly for the 7950x3D. I think the recent updates really squashed a lot of the early concerns. It's pretty much plug and play at this point.

Real talk, if my 5800x3d wasn't killing it, and if my computer case wasn't a PITA to open up, I'd probably pull the trigger on this one..

Though for a lot of modern games performance is maximized by disabling the CCD that lacks 3D V-Cache (so 8 cores are put to sleep while gaming). The Xbox App can automate this behaviour for you.

As a 7950x3d user .. I would recommend you to get the 9800x3d. 7950x3d had a rocky start but, now it's very good and can even overclock if you know what you're are doing. AMD really worked on software and BIOS updates to improve 7950x3d and it is vastly improved than what it was when it launched. However, you do need to setup this CPU every time you update your BIOS.

The only downside is that the 7950X3D's automatic core parking is a bit janky (I say this from experience). If you know what you're doing it's fine, but for your average person who doesn't fiddle with advanced settings and lasso I'd just tell them to stick with the 9800x3d.

The 7950X3D is fantastic. As is the regular 7950X. There are specific use cases where the X3D version is beneficial, but if you don't play those exact games, then the 7950X may be the better option. I know it's cheaper, faster, has better multi core and single core, and you dont have to do any of the special stuff like you would for the X3D like game bar, process lasso, etc. But both are top tier CPUs and I doubt most people could even tell the difference if doing the same tasks.

I do 4K gaming so CPU doesn't matter as much. For me I felt like if I plan to keep this build for a long time, I would want to get the chip that had the most cores. 7950x3d has 16 and 7800x3d has 8. I already have an 8 core 5800x that I'm giving to my son, so the 7950x3d feels like the bigger upgrade.

Where is it bad? I rocket past my displays max frame rates on ultra setting across all games I throw at it. Does just fine. Then crushes Photoshop and Illustrator working at the same time on different screens. Sounds plenty capable to me.

I was looking to upgrade a 7 year old rig and i found the same deal. 7950X3D, MSI Tomahawk X670E, and 32GB DDR5 for $650. insane savings as the CPU is almost $600 by itself.

Bought a second hand 7950X3D because i always multi-task on my machine, also while gaming so in my mind this thing is a perfect match. I do some productivity with the machine but mostly gaming

So I just upgraded to a 7950x3d (Why didn't I just get the 7800x3d? Well it was out of stock and more expensive than the 7950x3d at the time lol..) along with a 4080s.