Test setup
In the cheaper mid-range of processors, only Intel has been involved in recent years, gaining a lot of popularity in the segment of the cheapest Core i5s. Similar to the popularity that the Ryzen 5 3600 once had. Since its release, however, Intel has turned around three generations of competing processors to get on the proverbial horse. To knock it off it though, AMD is coming up with the Ryzen 5 5600.
Test setup
| Test configuration | Test configuration |
| CPU cooler | Noctua NH-U14S |
| Thermal compound | Noctua NT-H2 |
| Motherboard * | MSI MEG X570 Ace, MEG Z690 Unify, MAG Z690 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4, Z590 Ace, MSI MEG X570 Ace or MSI MEG Z490 Ace |
| Memory (RAM) | Patriot Blackout, 4× 8 GB, 3600 MHz/CL18 |
| Graphics card | MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio w/o Resizable BAR |
| SSD | 2× Patriot Viper VPN100 (512 GB + 2 TB) |
| PSU | BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 12 (1200 W) |
* We use the following BIOSes on motherboards. For MSI MMEG X570 Ace v1E, for MEG Z690 Unify v10, MAG Z690 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4 v11 , for MEG Z590 Ace v1.14 and for MSI MEG Z490 Ace v17.
Note: Graphics drivers used at the time of testing: Nvidia GeForce 466.77 and OS Windows 10 build 19043.
Intel CPUs are tested on the MSI MEG Z690 Unify, MAG Z490 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4, Z590 Ace and Z490 Ace motherboards. With MSI MEG Z690 Unify, the memory used is DDR5 Kingston Fury Beast (2× 16 GB, 5200 MHz/CL40):
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- Contents
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D in detail
- Methodology: performance tests
- Methodology: how we measure power draw
- Methodology: temperature and clock speed tests
- Test setup
- 3DMark
- Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
- Borderlands 3
- Counter-Strike: GO
- Cyberpunk 2077
- DOOM Eternal
- F1 2020
- Metro Exodus
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Total War Saga: Troy
- Overall gaming performance
- Gaming performance per euro
- PCMark and Geekbench
- Web performance
- 3D rendering: Cinebench, Blender, ...
- Video 1/2: Adobe Premiere Pro
- Video 2/2: DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Graphics effects: Adobe After Effects
- Video encoding
- Audio encoding
- Broadcasting (OBS and Xsplit)
- Photos 1/2: Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom
- Photos 2/2: Affinity Photo, Topaz Labs AI Apps, ZPS X, ...
- (De)compression
- (De)cryption
- Numerical computing
- Simulations
- Memory and cache tests
- Processor power draw curve
- Average processor power draw
- Performance per watt
- Achieved CPU clock speed
- CPU temperature
- Conclusion
You have the 5800x’s launch price as $299 when it was actually the same as the 5800x3d’s at $450. You have the 5800x as coming with a AMD Wraith Stealth cooler when it didn’t come with a cooler. These are just things that immediately stood out to me and I haven’t checked further. The article seems fairly detailed, but apparently with the wrong details and I have to ask myself why such obvious things are wrong. There’s a reason why these details are wrong that appear to me to not be because of simple mistakes. It’s almost like you’re going out of your way to make the 5800x3d look bad.
Thanks for the heads up, you are correct, we have two factual errors in the chart. But I’m sure it would be a big mistake to condemn the rest of the article because of them. I make charts at the end, often at the end of my rope. It is very difficult to edit such a voluminous article with so much information, especially considering how small the editorial team is (tests of much larger editorial offices are usually a quarter the size of ours…). So now and then a mistake can happen. The Wraith Stealth cooler in the R7 5800X specs is an error that was caused by cloning the chart from a non-X model, after which the cooler was left there due to an oversight.
And yes, the launch price of the R7 5800X, of course, is not 299 USD, but 449 USD. So yes, this information was also incorrect in the original chart, but know that the goal was definitely not to put R7 5800X3D at a disadvantage. Again, I’ll explain how this came about. In all tests we use the same template and in the R7 5800X test we have something like “Launch price:
449299 USD” in the chart, which hopefully makes it clear that the crossed out price is the launch price and the second amount is the price after discounting. Here the amount dropped out and it looks really strange, but at the same time at the time of writing the article 299 USD corresponded to the suggested price (the one after discounting) by AMD. In order to make everything right, we’re putting back the original wording “449299 USD” with a note (below the chart) that explains that this is the price after discounting, which we’re reflecting. It would be impractical to work with the same launch price of the R7 5800X and the R7 5800X3D in the test case, as the market situation is different.So hopefully it makes a little more sense to you and you will reconsider that this could perhaps be deliberate manipulation. Everything has been corrected and thank you again for your observation and for reading carefully.