So I won a Zotac RTX 3080 AMP Holo in the 12gb variant in a Giveaway. It already arrived, so no scam or anything else. Currently I've got an R5 3600 and an RX 6700XT in my pc. Cooler master V850 Gold V2 is already on its way so power won't be a problem. However I don't think my trusty 3600 will handle this upgrade. Bottleneck calculator says approximately 30% CPU Bottleneck on 1440p with High-Ultra settings in most games. My motherboard is an MSI B550 Tomahawk so I'd say definitely decent, not like a budget board without vrm cooling or anything. I want to upgrade my CPU on the same platform, so my question is R7 5800X3D or R9 5900X? I live in Austria and the 5800X3D is 362€ and the R9 5900X is 378€ so basically the same price. Just to clarify, I'm not planning to do crazy Animations, renders, etc. Maybe I'll stream or something, I mean I would have the Hardware for it🤷🏻 I tried to look for comparisons but it seems like there is no clear winner so I'm asking you guys. Thanks for any help/recommendations 🙂

R7 5800X3D or R9 5900X at same price

By Sepperl999
November 28, 2022 in New Builds and Planning

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Go to solution Solved by Sarra, November 28, 2022

For gaming only, get the 5800X3D.

For productivity, get the 5900X.

You can't really go wrong either way, though, TBH.

Posted November 29, 2022

6 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

If you see 80C rendering now you may gain 10C with a custom loop, but my point was that you may only see an additional 100 or 200MHz with it, which will reduce your rendering time by 3% while eating an additional 100W...

Yeah, I use curve optimizer. If I just set PBO stock to it's default, I can't even hit 4.95ghz on a single core, but if I tune a bit with curve optimizer, I can get into the 5-5.1 range on a few cores.

Pretty sure with another 10°C of thermal headroom, I could hit 5.1 with several cores. I'm going to have to do a custom loop for reasons unrelated to PBO/OC, anyway, and I like blingy crap, so why not? Maybe I'll get those dummy thicccccc rads from Alphacool, then throw some noctua fans on, and call it good?

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