Star Citizen's New CPU King? | 9700X Review

Is the new Ryzen 7 9700X the new CPU king of Star Citizen? Can it beat the 7800X3D? How about PBO, SMT? I've compared it with loads of other CPU's: 7700X, 13700KF, 5800X3D, 5600, 11400, 10400 and 3600!

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Test Setup

Star Citizen Alpha 3.23.1
Resolution 1080p

Test System
GPU: RTX 4080
RAM: 32GB 6000MHZ CL30, 32GB 3600MHZ CL16

Quality: Very High
Upscaling: OFF
Scattered Object Distance: Medium
Water- Number Of Simulated Regions: Medium
Terrain Tessellation Distance: Medium
Screen Space Shadows: High
Planet Volumetric Clouds: Medium
Motion Blur: Off
VSync: Off
Film Grain: No

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[tenpoundfortytwo]

Anyone planning on buying one of these?

[ghenghisprawn]

I had a feeling the changes to it's front end and l1 cache may specifically help Star Citizen where other games don't see any improvement. This should translate to another small bump in performance for the 9800x3d. I figured you might just skip the 9700x review since it wasn't seeing much improvement in other reviews except for few games here and there. Kudos to you for getting one and testing it for us, as always, you're the ultimate SC performance tester.

[iamthesentinel]

I bought a 5800x *right* before the 5800x3d came out, so maybe once the 9800x3d comes out I'll upgrade to that or the 7800x3d.

[travisco]

Hey I love your videos but could you make one where you benchmark a few cpus at Lorville for example, the route from bed to the ship spawn temrinals but including the frametime graph? Because I am always interested how the frametimes look like with each cpu, how much they stutter and such :D Maybe also with different Ram speed and sizes

[Reds_Resort]

Nicely done dude. Great information as always. Hope you enjoyed your holiday o7

[Deathtrooper]

I have this cpu, and I can definitely see a in game difference I approve

[nathanforrester]

well,
it did a better job than I thought was going to do. I agree just get a 7800x3d or wait to see what they do with the 9800x3d. Perhaps they will surprise us and it will be a nice bump in performance.

[echo]

Didn't know the 7700x beat the 5800x3d by so much, too bad they couldnt make that jump again with the 9700x. I guess we can expect around another 10-15% with x3d vs 7800

Unless they can stack 3d cache on the whole chip and make us buy 9950x

[CrazyDude]

I knew I'd be right about the next vid. Keep up the great work 👍

[RifRafJonesy]

Great work. I love the way you highlight the CPU you're talking about on the graph.

[Tainted-Soul]

going on the fps increase from 7700x to the 9700x we should see about the same from the 7800x3d and the 9800x3d which will make it a little faster a new build option but not an upgrade from a 7800x3d lol maybe the next 10800x3d or 11800x3d what ever they call it I would like to see the 9950x3d ( on both chips ) but not going to happen

[jimashby]

Mmm, kinda had a slight idea that was going to be the case with all the Discord discussions.

[thDragoon]

the inclusion of the 3600, 5600, and 5800X3D on these charts was a very wise decision. Great stuff.

[MrDazTroyer]

My recent upgrade from a 10700k to 7800x3d gave me almost double the frames in Area 18.

[UN]

Im on a 5800x3D and I am itching to upgrade. I can't wait to see the 9800x3Ds performance.

[phoboss]

Nice benchmark, Could you please add the memory cache for each CPU in the comparison chart in your next video it will help understand and confirm the why.

[MackyMus]

Thank you, I really value the work you do and I hope people appreciate it. I have a lowly i5-10400 and I'm currently happy, but someday I will get a 7800x3d to experience the verse I've always dreamed of. Thanks again.

[rinkaemina]

go for Ryzen 7 7800X3D, for 9700X price, it will be same just like 7800X3D because tax and store extra price

[wezzla]

People are comparing 9700X (65W) to 7700X (105W), but a more fair comparison would be 7700 (65W). I bet AMD has something hotter (105W) in the pipeline that will fill the gap between 9700X and 9800X3D.

[sphaera]

It would be interesting to see if more cores bring more benefits than a fast cache? How would the 9950X compare??