Is it worth overclocking the 5900x for gaming?

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[Moonzy]

probably not

i dont think amd cpu have much headroom, unless zen 3 is different?

[CommanderAlex]

With the performance you get right out of the box, then I wouldn't bother unless you upgrade your GPU that is more demanding years from now and need to OC to squeeze more performance out of the 5900X before a system upgrade. 

[mahyar]

unless you have 3090 or 6900xt or something like these no

[Stahlmann]

13 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

probably not

i dont think amd cpu have much headroom, unless zen 3 is different?

My 5600X is capable of 4.7 all-core (100MHz higher than single core boost).

It's not a 5900X but maybe this is is giving you some context.

 

In games i do not get a noticeable performance improvement (running a 3080, so basically most likely to have a CPU bottleneck), but a noticeable temp increase. So imo it's not worth it. In some cases i even get stuttering in games when it's OCed, but not without the OC, even when avg. FPS might be a little higher. I've also had Cyberpunk crash on me multiple times, but only when my OC was applied. Other games had no issues with my OC so far. But i went back to run stock again.

[jwwagner25]

59 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

probably not

i dont think amd cpu have much headroom, unless zen 3 is different?

zen3 is definitely different from prior generations.

 

I realize synthetic benchmarks aren't the be-all, end-all, but..

 

cinebench R20 scores for my 5600x were as follows..

stock - 4,000

PBO turned on - 4,300

4.825 GHz all-core OC - 4,800

 

For workloads where all cores/threads are being tasked, OC definitely makes sense as long as you can properly cool the CPU. For gaming and general use, it's probably better to turn on PBO and leave it at that. 

[KWelz]

Honestly with the 5900X your best bet is to enable PBO, and then apply a .075-.1 undervolt and go about your business.