Upgrading my 9900K

[JKRJ]

Will upgrading my i9 9900K to a 7800X3D or the upcoming 9th gen Ryzen improve overall gaming experience?

 

I have an RTX 3080 and a 1440p 185hz monitor. Will mostly play single player AAA games.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

[RONOTHAN##]

1 minute ago, JKRJ said:

Will upgrading my i9 9900K to a 7800X3D or the upcoming 9th gen Ryzen improve overall gaming experience?

This will depend on the exact games you want to play, but probably. The question should more be whether the upgrade is worth it, which you can only really tell by looking at your framerates and saying if they're high enough for you in the games that you play. 

[Hinjima]

Just now, JKRJ said:

Will upgrading my i9 9900K to a 7800X3D or the upcoming 9th gen Ryzen improve overall gaming experience?

 

I have an RTX 3080 and a 1440p 185hz monitor. Will mostly play single player AAA games.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

I had a 9900k overclocked to 5.1ghz on all cores.  I bought an RTX 4080 and I had a ton of 1% and 0.1% lows ( stutter ) when running high framerates, especially in Tiny Tina's Wonderland, Hell Let Loose, Metro Exodus and Dying Light 2.

 

I swapped to a Ryzen 7700x and the average framerate went up by some but the 1% and 0.1% lows improved dramatically.  For me as a pure gamer, it was absoluetly worth it. 

So going with the 7800X3D should see quite a decent improvement, at least in the 1% and 0.1% lows / stutters.

[Goobercoop]

Performance Speaking The 7800x3d should be more performant than the 9950x, but like he said its more due to if you need to upgrade at all as usually triple a single player games aren't as demanding on cpu as they are gpu.

[podkall]

7 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

I had a 9900k overclocked to 5.1ghz on all cores.  I bought an RTX 4080 and I had a ton of 1% and 0.1% lows ( stutter ) when running high framerates, especially in Tiny Tina's Wonderland, Hell Let Loose, Metro Exodus and Dying Light 2.

 

I swapped to a Ryzen 7700x and the average framerate went up by some but the 1% and 0.1% lows improved dramatically.  For me as a pure gamer, it was absoluetly worth it. 

So going with the 7800X3D should see quite a decent improvement, at least in the 1% and 0.1% lows / stutters.

it's worth saying,

 

that unless you are stuttering or somehow struggling on 9900k, it's worth to say it's fine to keep,

 

and can still perform better, than today's midrange hardware with no issues.

[Hinjima]

5 minutes ago, podkall said:

it's worth saying,

 

that unless you are stuttering or somehow struggling on 9900k, it's worth to say it's fine to keep,

 

and can still perform better, than today's midrange hardware with no issues.

Sure.  I am just telling my experience.

I am super glad I swapped away from the 9900k, with a 4080 it was a terrible experience.

Moving from the 9900k to a 7700x was one of the best choices I have made in regards to my gaming PC's in roughly 25 years.

 

If one is happy with the 9900k then by all means, keep it Especially if you are running a mid range GPU. Still a decent CPU, even though its technically a 6700k with a few more cores.

But if you have a high end GPU, knowing what I know  from my own experience.. Swap, swap it asap.

[podkall]

Just now, Hinjima said:

Sure.  I am just telling my experience.

I am super glad I swapped away from the 9900k, with a 4080 it was a terrible experience.

Moving from the 9900k to a 7700x was one of the best choices I have made in regards to my gaming PC's in roughly 25 years.

 

If one is happy with the 9900k then by all means, keep it Especially if you are running a mid range GPU.

But if you have a high end GPU, knowing what I know  from my own experience.. Swap, swap it asap.

of course, I'm not denying the smoothness improvement in CPU upgrade, I saw substantial smoothness improvement going from 3 1200 to 5 5600, mainly stutters have become quite rare with this change, among other things of course.

[Hinjima]

5 minutes ago, podkall said:

of course, I'm not denying the smoothness improvement in CPU upgrade, I saw substantial smoothness improvement going from 3 1200 to 5 5600, mainly stutters have become quite rare with this change, among other things of course.

Oh yeah,  Ryzen 1200 to 5600 is a huge jump!

Remember that the 9900k released only a year after the Ryzen 1000 series and it was on the same 14nm node as the 6700k from 2015.

 

Tiny Tina's Wonderland was actually unplayable with the 9900k+4080, it was so bad in terms of stutter.

Smooth as silk with the 7700x and this is at 1440p high/ultra.

[xg32]

16 hours ago, JKRJ said:

Will upgrading my i9 9900K to a 7800X3D or the upcoming 9th gen Ryzen improve overall gaming experience?

 

I have an RTX 3080 and a 1440p 185hz monitor. Will mostly play single player AAA games.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

it can be like a 50% bump in certain games with cpu bottlenecks

 

7800x3d for 260usd

 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=7800x3d&crid=G8WHZ7Z3B1HG&sprefix=7800x3d%2Caps%2C150&ref=nb_sb_noss_1