7800X3D vs 14700K

[Adrian05]

Hey guys, 

 

i‘m planning my next upgrade and i can‘t decide between the 7800X3D and the i7 14700k. I game a lot whilst also doing a fair bit of cad-work. From watching reviews of the 2 chips i‘m leaning towards the 7800X3D, though the cad performance wasn‘t that great. I‘m an intel user with all my builds so far and generally would go with them but i‘m undecided. 
If some of you have good insights or suggestions for the 2 chips, i‘d greatly appreciate them!

[filpo]

Just now, Adrian05 said:

Hey guys, 

 

i‘m planning my next upgrade and i can‘t decide between the 7800X3D and the i7 14700k. I game a lot whilst also doing a fair bit of cad-work. From watching reviews of the 2 chips i‘m leaning towards the 7800X3D, though the cad performance wasn‘t that great. I‘m an intel user with all my builds so far and generally would go with them but i‘m undecided. 
If some of you have good insights or suggestions for the 2 chips, i‘d greatly appreciate them!

I'd say the 14700k would be the best if you prioritise the cad work. They are 'about' the same (with the 7800X3D being better) but the 14700k does draw more power and gets hotter

[RobGMun]

Seems like the basic consensus is. If you're gaming = 7800X3D, if you're into production of any kind = 14700K

 

You'll have to decide which of the two things is more important to you

[Dedayog]

5 minutes ago, Adrian05 said:

Hey guys, 

 

i‘m planning my next upgrade and i can‘t decide between the 7800X3D and the i7 14700k. I game a lot whilst also doing a fair bit of cad-work. From watching reviews of the 2 chips i‘m leaning towards the 7800X3D, though the cad performance wasn‘t that great. I‘m an intel user with all my builds so far and generally would go with them but i‘m undecided. 
If some of you have good insights or suggestions for the 2 chips, i‘d greatly appreciate them!

Compare the 7800X3D CAD performance with the CPU you currently have.  It's better, so enjoy

 

 

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, RobGMun said:

Seems like the basic consensus is. If you're gaming = 7800X3D, if you're into production of any kind = 14700K

 

You'll have to decide which of the two things is more important to you

I'll just add the caveat that if your work is GPU accelerated the CPU choice may not matter and he may as well get the gaming CPU. 

[PDifolco]

51 minutes ago, Adrian05 said:

Hey guys, 

 

i‘m planning my next upgrade and i can‘t decide between the 7800X3D and the i7 14700k. I game a lot whilst also doing a fair bit of cad-work. From watching reviews of the 2 chips i‘m leaning towards the 7800X3D, though the cad performance wasn‘t that great. I‘m an intel user with all my builds so far and generally would go with them but i‘m undecided. 
If some of you have good insights or suggestions for the 2 chips, i‘d greatly appreciate them!

For a rig used significantly on production tasks I'd get a 14700K or a 7900X/7950X

[SupaKomputa]

 

It's still the king of gaming by ALOT. Almost 50fps more just by changing the CPU.

[Shimejii]

24 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

 

It's still the king of gaming by ALOT. Almost 50fps more just by changing the CPU.

Dont link 720p Results on these cpus lol. 1080p minimum, 1440p preferred. I understand why, but if you can spend the $$$ on these cpus you can get a monitor better then 720p  I understand you want to show more of a difference between them, but this kind of result imo is useless at this point. 

 

7800x3D is a beast of a gaming cpu, its the go to CPU. If you do CAD for work, you can see if its enough for what you do, otherwise 14700k may be a bit better, but again comes down to testing.

[SupaKomputa]

51 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

Dont link 720p Results on these cpus lol. 1080p minimum, 1440p preferred. I understand why, but if you can spend the $$$ on these cpus you can get a monitor better then 720p  I understand you want to show more of a difference between them, but this kind of result imo is useless at this point. 

 

7800x3D is a beast of a gaming cpu, its the go to CPU. If you do CAD for work, you can see if its enough for what you do, otherwise 14700k may be a bit better, but again comes down to testing.

Didn't realize it was 720p haha.

 

 

52 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

14700k may be a bit better

 

"A BIT" better with 3x the power. WTF.
It's good if you live in Alaska.

[Milesqqw2]

I personally prefer AMD but for your use case I think almost everyone agrees to go with the i7. So, get the i7 and enjoy it, just make sure it is compatible with the mobo. 

[Adrian05]

I should have added that i game at 1440p. From what i've found the difference between the chips ain't really anymore at that quality.

[KaitouX]

On 11/16/2023 at 3:27 PM, SupaKomputa said:

Didn't realize it was 720p haha.

 

 

 

"A BIT" better with 3x the power. WTF.
It's good if you live in Alaska.

That includes heavy MT tasks that let the 14700K pull 280W (unnecessarily), while the 7800X3D is limited to 80W. In those tasks the 14700K can be about double the speed, but if you care about efficiency, you can power limit the 14700K to about 90W and still beat the 7800X3D in those tasks, in some cases by 15% or more. The same can be done with the 7900X and 7950X with even better results.

[Adrian05]

So to continue this thread (thanks for the answer so far) i‘m gonna clarify my starting point. 
Right now i‘m running a 10700k with a 2070 super. My plan is to build an entirely new pc with either a 7800x3d or an i7-14700k as mentioned before. My GPU is going to be a 4080. 

The problem i have is that i don‘t know which CPU to get. I‘m mainly gaming on the rig but i‘m studying civil engineering and do have to run cad software on the pc. From what i‘ve gathered so far i know that the 7800x3d is the better option for gaming whilst also not killing my powerbill with the productivity side of things being more the in 14700k‘s range.
I‘m fine with the cad performance being on par or only slightly better than the 10700k i‘m running atm. I just couldn‘t find any tests comparing the 10700k with the 7800x3d. If i go with thread and core count both CPUs have 8c/16t. I know that ain‘t a valid comparison for the performance side of things. 
 

So if you have any tips, valid testing results or a different input on my problem, i‘d greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

[Steve_17]

13 hours ago, Adrian05 said:

So to continue this thread (thanks for the answer so far) i‘m gonna clarify my starting point. 
Right now i‘m running a 10700k with a 2070 super. My plan is to build an entirely new pc with either a 7800x3d or an i7-14700k as mentioned before. My GPU is going to be a 4080. 

The problem i have is that i don‘t know which CPU to get. I‘m mainly gaming on the rig but i‘m studying civil engineering and do have to run cad software on the pc. From what i‘ve gathered so far i know that the 7800x3d is the better option for gaming whilst also not killing my powerbill with the productivity side of things being more the in 14700k‘s range.
I‘m fine with the cad performance being on par or only slightly better than the 10700k i‘m running atm. I just couldn‘t find any tests comparing the 10700k with the 7800x3d. If i go with thread and core count both CPUs have 8c/16t. I know that ain‘t a valid comparison for the performance side of things. 
 

So if you have any tips, valid testing results or a different input on my problem, i‘d greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

Not one of the experts here, but I think you answered your own question. If you aren't worried about CAD performance as much go for the gaming performance. Maybe someone else could confirm, but I would guess that a 7800x3d could run CAD as fast or faster than the 10700K you have. 

[Ebony Falcon]

Personally I think intel is better, if you tune the system and the ram it will fly in gaming