Those savings compound after adding in the extra costs for a pricey AM5 motherboard and the premium for DDR5 memory. The 7900X3D is roughly 10% faster than the $365 Ryzen 7 5800X3D, but you'll pay $235 more just for the chip. If you're looking to save even more cash and are only interested in gaming, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D comes into the conversation. The stock and overclocked 7900X3D is 9% faster than the 13700K, but the 13700K also costs significantly less cash while offering more performance in productivity applications. At $409, this chip offers nearly the same gaming performance as the Core i9-13900K, so those looking for a more affordable high-end gaming rig have all the more reason to step down if they're looking to save some cash. The 7900X3D is designed for gaming-specific rigs, so the Core i7-13700K is also a contender. The 7900X3D wins the gaming contest, it's ~7% faster than the 13900K in 1080p gaming at stock and overclocked settings, but as you'll see on the next page, the 13900K is a far better all-rounder. This will likely be the gaming chip to beat for this generation of processors, and it will undoubtedly offer tremendously more value than the 7900X3D.ĪMD aims the $599 Ryzen 9 7900X3D at the like-priced $589 Core i9-13900K. This chip comes to market in April and will deliver the lion's share of 3D V-Cache's gaming performance (~95%) for $150 less than the 7900X3D. However, it also comes with four additional cores that help reduce the shortcomings in productivity applications.ĪMD also has the $449 eight-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D waiting in the wings. The $699 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X3D is the 7900X3D's biggest competition - the flagship is 6% faster than the 12-core 7900X3D at stock settings and 4% faster after overclocking. The 3D V-Cache tech also leads to reductions in productivity application performance, as you'll see on the following page. The $599 Ryzen 9 7900X3D lives up to its billing as a speedy gaming chip, but be aware that the 3D V-Cache doesn’t accelerate all titles equally, so you’ll have to assess the trends in the individual game benchmarks below. The first slides are simplified by excluding the overclocking configs, while the remainder contains the full roster of tested configurations.

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