Is this the Ultimate AM4 Upgrade?

So you are looking for an AM4 upgrade for gaming. Is AM5 a good option? Maybe not because right now the AM4 CPU prices for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and Ryzen 5 5600X are the lowest they've ever been.

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0:00 - AM4 Situation vs AM5
0:51 - Ryzen 5000 Pricing = SO LOW
1:54 - Ad Spot!
2:26 - The Ultimate Upgrade for GAMING?
3:21 - 1440p Gaming Benchmarks
4:50 - Understanding FUTURE GPU Upgrades
5:42 - 4K Gaming Benchmarks
6:54 - Ray Tracing Performance
7:22 - A Drop in Upgrade....EXCEPT
8:09 - 5800X3D, Its Place Right Now
8:55 - AM4 Upgrades have a Best Before Date!

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[phrze]

5800x3D is the epic gaming conclusion to a legendary platform

[yousuff]

The 5800x3D is the 2600k of this generation.

I just upgraded from a 3700x and I'm very impressed.

[CAthomaselliott]

Can confirm. Had a 5800x and while trying to diagnose a WHEA/Black Screen error I picked up a 5800x3D and was surprised at the improvement across the board. Every game especially those CPU intensive games felt like I had an entire system upgrade. This makes me feel like I can sit on this processor upgrade for a few years and sit out the first or even 2nd generation of AM5.

[philscomputerlab]

The thing is everyone is now waiting for a x3D chip from the 7000 series. AMD really made this 5800x3D "too good"

[phero]

Went from a 5800x to the x3d and it got me a really good uptick in 1% lows, even at 3840x1600. Crazy how much of a difference the cache can make, I'm excited to see how the 7000 series will do with v cache

[Bilut]

To be fully satisfied with 5800x3d you have to use pbo tuner tho. Slap that -30 curve and enjoy lower tdp/temperatures and higher clocks under load. It gives around 8-10% boost in all core workloads and better/more stable single core boost. Add slight bclk OC (1-2mhz) on top of that and you will have optimal performance. Untill amd unlocks those options in the bios that is the only way to fully utilize potential of this great cpu.

[PredalienatorX]

Very nuanced take and I agree. I'm running a 5800X3D and a 6900 XT from a 3700X and GTX 1080 but if I was more budget constrained, then picking a $150 Ryzen 5 5600X would still be a major upgrade.

[JakubVacek]

5800X3D is great if you care only gaming, since it has to make compromises elsewhere. If you game only casually or just sometimes, it'd strongly recommend the 5800X instead. The prices on the mid tier Ryzen 5000 have been slashed significantly and the 5800X is almost the peak you can get out of AM4 (excluding X3D) gaming and single-core performance wise.

[bossvegeta]

The 5800X3D is just outstanding if AMD does the same with the 7800X3D and the other 7000X3D CPUs were in for a real treat. Right now the RTX 4090 plus 5800X3D PC is an AAA-killing gaming experience.

[normaldude]

The 5800x3D is most likely becoming the CPU-version of the GTX1080ti: ultra durable und will be enough gamingwise for at least 3-5 years. The amazing power draw (you can even undervolt it with PBO Tuner without losing much performance) and the easy way to upgrade make it such a good product for AM4-owners and pc builders who just want to enter the pc world with a budget build.

[omerdemir]

Actually the 5800X3D is way less sensitive to RAM Speed than the rest of the 5000 lineup. The difference between 3200 CL16 and 3800 CL14 is less than 3%, in most cases even more less. Even in 1080p! So one more reason to upgrade to this legendary CPU :)

[zer]

Recently upgraded from a 2600 to a 5600, i doubt i'll need anything more for a few years to come. Very happy with the performance uplift.

[Pierrelikeskipe]

i recenly upgraded from 3600 to 5800x3d and its just mind blowing how big of a jump it is.
honestly felt like a whole new experience in all games plus in 4k its so much smoother. its a legendary chip!

[johnscaramis]

8:10 If you have any other than a 5800x3D then memory speed is important. If you're planning to use a 5800X3D, 3200 will be more than OK. Several tests have shown only marginal difference of ram speed on performance, I think 2-3%, that's usually not worth spending money.
And the reason for the low influence of ram speed is quite easy: only 1 CCD, so no cross-CCD-communication that benefits from higher IF frequency. And with a large chunk of cache, much more data can be stored locally in L3 cache, hence less necessity for slow RAM access (and RAM access is always slow comapred to local cache)

[mikecmorley]

The x3d appears to really shine in MMOs and simulation based games. I don't see these included in reviews all that often. :(
Would love to see a video on WoW, GW2, FF14, ESO, popular strategy games, etc.
I know that is a tall order due to the difficultly in benching those (e.g., the FF14 benchmark is simply not representative of in-game performance), but that is where I think the x3d will really dunk on the 7th gen and potentially even Intel's 13 gen chips.

[brettpeacock]

I am about to replace my R7-3700X with the R7-5800X3D, so I found this very helpful. I have been more than pleased with the 3700X & 32gb of 3600 ram (which I'll be retaining for now) and I can get decent framerates on "Elden Ring" but I do realise that it will rapidly lose ground as the new-gen tech comes in. I am not an "Early Adopter" of next gen tech as it tends to have a LOT of issues at first and is way overpriced generally so I prefer to wait at least 3 years before moving to a new platform or upgrade which means that I'm not someone to wave my brand-new technology around in a "Dick-Measuring" contest! (Heck it took me 7 years to move on from Intel 4790K to Ryzen 3300X!! And I went from a GTX 980 to a RTX 3080 in the same upgrade!

[adam]

AM4 will survive at least this next gen of GPU's but after that.. not sure... lots of new features being added with the 7000 series may be expanded upon in the 8000 series and be intertwined with better gaming performance... right now Intel is actually kinda winning this gen of cpus.. even if I refuse to upgrade to windows 11 for now.

[yuyuy]

wish the charts showed the ryzen 5900x in the comparison because its the same price as the 5800 x3d

[TheJoBlackos]

I actually upgraded to 5800X3D a few weeks ago from intel i57600, I was waiting to see the new generations from intel and AMD but with the power consumption and the pricing I told it will be way better investment to go with 5800X3D and have a 3080TI update too. Did not regret the choice, it is over what I expected. Justice FYI, this is gaming only station, I have other machines for work related tasks

[Kryptic]

I just got one of these last week on the day the price reduced to $329 and dropped it into an X570 board that was sitting around doing nothing, and it's amazing. With all that cache and some RAM with good timings, the overall averages & frame consistencies of all the games I play the most are better than they've ever been. I always tweak the settings in my games in such a way where the GPU has about 15-20% average headroom to deal with variances in different areas of a game in order to eliminate unexpected frame dips, so I tend to be more CPU-bound than GPU-bound the majority of the time, and the improvement the 5800X3D made over the 10850K I was using before was immediately noticeable.