AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D: First gaming test
AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D retains the well-known Zen 3 architecture but adds 64 MB of L3 cache. The chip is set to be released on April 20th, however, the Peruvian website XanxoGaming has already purchased and tested a retail Ryzen 7 5800X3D.
As a test platform, they employ a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master, 16 GiB DDR4 3200 MHz with CL14, and a Geforce RTX 3080 Ti to limit the processor as little as possible by other components.
The first tests were limited to synthetic benchmarks, which are not supposed to be indicative of the new chip's strength and which, depending on the application, place it ahead of, but generally behind, the original Ryzen 7 5800X, which clocks higher.
The synthetic benchmark results are sobering, albeit it should be noted that a beta UEFI was used and it is unclear whether AMD will supply additional optimized chipset drivers by the time of the final release.
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D scores 1,493 points in single-core and 15,060 points in multi-core in Cinebench R23. In comparison, a Ryzen 7 5800X scores between 1,600 and 15,500 points.
With 2,000 and 27,000 points, Intel's gaming flagship, the Core i9-12900K, is on a whole different level. The 5800X3D scores 1,639 and 10,498 on Geekbench 5, whereas the 5800X scores about the same at 1,671 and 10,339, respectively.
The CPU-Z reference numbers for the 5800X3D are equally unremarkable, with 617 and 6506 points. The Core i9-12900K has 831 or 11,440 points and completely outperforms the AMD CPU.
Now, XanxoGaming has released the first gaming benchmark, which paints a different picture.
An Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 cools the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The XanxoGaming testers employ a 720p resolution to keep the gaming test as CPU-limited as feasible.
They use data from CapframeX, which was built using a Core i9-12900KS, a Core i9-12900K(F), DDR5-4800 RAM, and an RTX 3090 Ti, as a reference value for the comparison.
Although being quicker than an RTX 3080 Ti, the new Ryzen 7 5800X3D averages 231 frames per second in Shadow of the Tomb Raider in 720p at low settings. Despite the better graphics card, the Core i9-12900K only manages 190 frames per second, while the Core i9-12900KS manages 200.
Even with an inferior graphics card, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D outperforms the Core i9-12900K(F) by an amazing 21.58 percent in this test, proving AMD's promise. Of course, additional tests must be performed to determine whether this perception is correct.
