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In terms of gaming performance, to what cpu can the i7 9800x be compared?

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That's my cpu. To what cpu can it be compared in terms of pure gaming performance? I'm asking once again because my cpu is pretty rare and I can find incredibly little info on it online.

 

Cyberpunk 2077 shows that the recommended cpu for 1440p ultra graphics setting is an i7 4790. Is my cpu better or at least equal  to the 4790? And what about the i7 6700? It shows as recommended for 4k ultra settings and RT enabled. Is my cpu comparible?

 

If you forget about prices and look purely at performance, how  high would you rate the i7 9800x?

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It's an 8/16 cpu, max turbo of 4.4GHz.   Roughly around a 7700K for gaming I would say.

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3 minutes ago, superfantastic said:

That's my cpu. To what cpu can it be compared in terms of pure gaming performance? I'm asking once again because my cpu is pretty rare and I can find incredibly little info on it online.

 

Cyberpunk 2077 shows that the recommended cpu for 1440p ultra graphics setting is an i7 4790. Is my cpu better or at least equal  to the 4790? And what about the i7 6700? It shows as recommended for 4k ultra settings and RT enabled. Is my cpu comparible?

 

If you forget about prices and look purely at performance, how  high would you rate the i7 9800x?

Given it's a skylake part and will turbo to about 4.4GHz at stock it's probably somewhere around an i7-7700K, which hits the same all-core turbo, has only 4 cores but with a slight bump in IPC.

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i'd say it's a slower 9900k. maybe like a 9900 non-k.

better single core performance than 2700x and similar to 3700x, but lower than the 10700k or 9900k. also slower in multithread than 3700x.

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6 minutes ago, superfantastic said:

Cyberpunk 2077 shows that the recommended cpu for 1440p ultra graphics setting is an i7 4790. Is my cpu better or at least equal  to the 4790?

I had this CPU actually (i7-9800X) and it was a hell of a lot better than my i7-4790k was. It did pretty good overall but I wanted to upgrade to the best I can get on X299 so away it goes into storage (for some other day). I've played games with it paired with a RTX 2080 on 2560 x1440 res and it was a solid performer. 

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I had this CPU actually (i7-9800X) and it was a hell of a lot better than my i7-4790k was. It did pretty good overall but I wanted to upgrade to the best I can get on X299 so away it goes into storage (for some other day). I've played games with it paired with a RTX 2080 on 2560 x1440 res and it was a solid performer. 

Oh perfect, so few people I've heard that had first hand experience with it. You think it would hold a 3070 back if I upgrade my gpu?

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4 minutes ago, superfantastic said:

Oh perfect, so few people I've heard that had first hand experience with it. You think it would hold a 3070 back if I upgrade my gpu?

Most likely not. In higher resolutions it should run great

geometry is hard
b550 > x570

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10 minutes ago, superfantastic said:

Oh perfect, so few people I've heard that had first hand experience with it. You think it would hold a 3070 back if I upgrade my gpu?

You'll have plenty of headroom with that CPU and a 3070. Mine did not break out in a sweat. 

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