7800X3D vs 7900X3D

[Misinthe]

Hey everyone, 

 

I am looking to upgrade my PC finally, I am currently rocking an i7 6700k, I was waiting for the 14th Gen to drop to make a decision, seeing how lack luster this gen is, I am having troubles deciding which CPU to purchase. Since this is the last gen in Intels current socket, I don't want to purchase a product that will have no upgrade path from the get go, so I was looking at Ryzen 7 7800X3D and the Ryzen 9 7900X3D, it's a $150 in price and having the extra cores for work related things would be nice, but I don't know if the performance is worth it, I've been looking reviews and they're usually "go 7800X3D or 7950X3D", but I really don't want to spend $650 on a processor, and as far as GPU, I was planning on pairing it with a 4080 (or 4080Ti since they're rumored to come out soon). So I wanted to get more opinions on my situation, see what y'all think. Thank  you in advance!

[RONOTHAN##]

10 minutes ago, Misinthe said:

it's a $150 in price and having the extra cores for work related things would be nice,

If you really need the extra cores, get the 7900X as that's faster than the 7900X3D for no-gaming tasks and cheaper as well. The problem with the 7900X3D is it's consistently in this weird no-mans land, where it's slower than the 7800X3D in games, slower than the 7900X in production, more expensive than both by a fairly significant margin. 

 

The 7800X3D is going to be a massive performance uplift to your 6700K in production, so I don't really see a reason to go for the 7900X3D in this situation. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 minute ago, RONOTHAN## said:

If you really need the extra cores, get the 7900X as that's faster than the 7900X3D for no-gaming tasks and cheaper as well. The problem with the 7900X3D is it's consistently in this weird no-mans land, where it's slower than the 7800X3D in games, slower than the 7900X in production, more expensive than both by a fairly significant margin. 

 

The 7800X3D is going to be a massive performance uplift to your 6700K in production, so I don't really see a reason to go for the 7900X3D in this situation. 

Also the annoying situation with the scheduler where if you upgrade to a none mixed-CCD CPU in the future you have to do a complete reinstall of Windows to remove the tweaks, or things don't run correctly. (unless they've fixed that recently?)

[Tetras]

If gaming is more important to you than productivity, get the 7800X3D. If it is the other way around, I'd get the 7900 non-X. The 7900X3D rarely makes sense.

 

21 minutes ago, Misinthe said:

having the extra cores for work related things would be nice, but I don't know if the performance is worth it

What kind of work related things?

[Misinthe]

1 hour ago, RONOTHAN## said:

If you really need the extra cores, get the 7900X as that's faster than the 7900X3D for no-gaming tasks and cheaper as well. The problem with the 7900X3D is it's consistently in this weird no-mans land, where it's slower than the 7800X3D in games, slower than the 7900X in production, more expensive than both by a fairly significant margin. 

 

The 7800X3D is going to be a massive performance uplift to your 6700K in production, so I don't really see a reason to go for the 7900X3D in this situation. 

Thanks for the suggestions.

1 hour ago, Tetras said:

If gaming is more important to you than productivity, get the 7800X3D. If it is the other way around, I'd get the 7900 non-X. The 7900X3D rarely makes sense.

 

What kind of work related things?

I don't do any type of content editing or anything like that, I'm more of a "have a lot of chrome tabs open while I do work" and several other programs, just random multitasking. 

 

I think I'll go for the 7800X3D, save up some money for the 4080.

[-rascal-]

12 minutes ago, Misinthe said:

Thanks for the suggestions.

I don't do any type of content editing or anything like that, I'm more of a "have a lot of chrome tabs open while I do work" and several other programs, just random multitasking. 

 

I think I'll go for the 7800X3D, save up some money for the 4080.

 

A bunch of tabs + applications open...get the 7800X3D.

I think we assumed work-related things as in number-crunching or design work that eats up as much cores as possible.

[SupaKomputa]

A bunch of tabs + applications open... Get 64GB memory. Trust me cpu won't do much.
Right now with 32gb, i have to shutdown my browser(s) to play games with cpu only at 20-40% (and im on 5700g).
Browser tabs is just getting more and more expensive for the memory.

8 (real) cores is still the sweetspot.

[Misinthe]

On 10/24/2023 at 1:33 AM, SupaKomputa said:

A bunch of tabs + applications open... Get 64GB memory. Trust me cpu won't do much.
Right now with 32gb, i have to shutdown my browser(s) to play games with cpu only at 20-40% (and im on 5700g).
Browser tabs is just getting more and more expensive for the memory.

8 (real) cores is still the sweetspot.

Thanks, I was planning on getting 64GB for Chrome!

[Dedayog]

On 10/23/2023 at 8:00 PM, Misinthe said:

Thanks for the suggestions.

I don't do any type of content editing or anything like that, I'm more of a "have a lot of chrome tabs open while I do work" and several other programs, just random multitasking. 

 

I think I'll go for the 7800X3D, save up some money for the 4080.

Curious where you were told that lots of tabs requires one of the most powerful cpus?

 

Lots of tabs Is RAM + a core 2 duo.

[Misinthe]

14 hours ago, Dedayog said:

Curious where you were told that lots of tabs requires one of the most powerful cpus?

 

Lots of tabs Is RAM + a core 2 duo.

No, but I also want to do gaming.