AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D review: the new best gaming CPU, for reals this time.
The notion of a high-end gaming CPU is always going to be an ephemeral one. It's often a moniker you can only give out based on gaming frame rates that are more theoretical than real-world; performance numbers based on low-end resolutions you'd never use. But with the that's more of a tangible title than before, with demonstrable performance leads at 1440p as well as 1080p when the highest graphical presets are engaged.
The increased efficiency is likely to be less important for such a human, but the astounding drop in power draw combined with an increase in gaming performance makes this X3D chip look like the sort of processor webe sticking in our rigs. At a time where top-end CPUs usually come with a commensurate spike in power draw, the energy economy of the new AMD processors is welcome and very impressive.
But if it's the other way around, and you're a dedicated gamer with an interest in content creation, the 7950X3D could well be your jam. Or maybe themight be. I've yet to test the other cache-heavy chips, but if they can deliver the same gaming and efficiency uplifts as this one then they're going to make more sense to a PC gamer. The 7900X3D has the same asymmetrical chiplet layout, so has the same compromises for productivity, but the 7800X3D is a pure 3D V-cache gaming beast.
Though I personally didn't have a lot of luck pairing the Curve Optimizer and PBO. This is meant to be the one-touch tuning tool to get the most out of your specific chip, and while it got all the way through its hour and half of tuning with a preset I could enable through Ryzen Master it didn't really work out.
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