Silently launched: Ryzen 5 7600X3D

[Albuquerque]

Just saw this on my Youtube list:

The 7600X3D very quietly showed up earlier this week on Microcenter shelves for $300 USD. Like the 5600X3D before it, the CPU is 6c/12t, comes with a 65W TDP, and is exclusively available only from Microcenter at launch. Steve from GN gives it the usual bevy of benchmarks and this new X3D part actually steals the "most frames per watt" crown from the 7800X3D, sometimes by a substantial amount. Also like basically every other X3D part, it's very middle-of-the-road for performance in productivity workloads,

If you want a very quiet, very performant CPU for a budget-friendly gaming desktop, this is a pretty badass option -- so long as you have a Microcenter within reasonable traveling distance.

 

[homerdog]

Just saw this on my Youtube list:

The 7600X3D very quietly showed up earlier this week on Microcenter shelves for $300 USD. Like the 5600X3D before it, the CPU is 6c/12t, comes with a 65W TDP, and is exclusively available only from Microcenter at launch. Steve from GN gives it the usual bevy of benchmarks and this new X3D part actually steals the "most frames per watt" crown from the 7800X3D, sometimes by a substantial amount. Also like basically every other X3D part, it's very middle-of-the-road for performance in productivity workloads,

If you want a very quiet, very performant CPU for a budget-friendly gaming desktop, this is a pretty badass option -- so long as you have a Microcenter within reasonable traveling distance.

I didn't watch the whole review yet but from what I saw the difference the extra 2 cores makes on the 7800X3D is minimal in most games. It is faster but mostly because it clocks higher.

Last gen with super weak 8 core CPUs I was sure devs would figure out multithreading in games. Now after reading about the problem from people that actually understand it I'm not convinced it will ever happen. There are exceptions like what id is doing but let's be honest there isn't a whole lot going on in Doom compared to something like Dragon's Dogma 2.

 

[DuckThor Evil]

I haven't had a gaming capable PC for many years and I'm finally building a new one. I don't get to reuse any of the parts from my old computer except one SATA SSD storage drive... Can't complain too much though the i7 4770k served me well for 11.5 years haha.

The pricing and availability of the 7800X3D and 9800X3D is piss poor over here. So I have this 7600X3D coming in on a X870-motherboard.
Bad time to buy a GPU, but I got a 4070 Super anyway...The idea behind these components was to get actually capable parts, but which are still semi placeholdery if the situation calls for it as I can drop in a 9800X3D and RTX 5080 into this without suffering horribly in resale value by my prediction. I might just hold into these for long though as my main target was just to beat the PS5 Pro comfortably and I like the power efficiency of these two parts. CPU+GPU have a sub 300W TDP. I think the CPU especially will do just fine in gaming for a long time.

Other parts are:

Lian LI Lancool 207 case
Asus Prime X870 Motherboard
64GB DDR5 memory kit
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB M2-SSD
Seasonic focus 850W ATX 3.1

 

[homerdog]

I haven't had a gaming capable PC for many years and I'm finally building a new one. I don't get to reuse any of the parts from my old computer except one SATA SSD storage drive... Can't complain too much though the i7 4770k served me well for 11.5 years haha.

The pricing and availability of the 7800X3D and 9800X3D is piss poor over here. So I have this 7600X3D coming in on a X870-motherboard.
Bad time to buy a GPU, but I got a 4070 Super anyway...The idea behind these components was to get actually capable parts, but which are still semi placeholdery if the situation calls for it as I can drop in a 9800X3D and RTX 5080 into this without suffering horribly in resale value by my prediction. I might just hold into these for long though as my main target was just to beat the PS5 Pro comfortably and I like the power efficiency of these two parts. CPU+GPU have a sub 300W TDP. I think the CPU especially will do just fine in gaming for a long time.

Other parts are:

Lian LI Lancool 207 case
Asus Prime X870 Motherboard
64GB DDR5 memory kit
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB M2-SSD
Seasonic focus 850W ATX 3.1

You're getting pretty close to peak CPU performance (9800X3D excluded) and the 4070 Super is about as good as you can do right now.

What GPU did you have? I went from 3770K + GTX970 to 13600K + RTX4070. The difference was HUGE and now I'm spoiled by 1440p 120+Hz gaming. I can never go back

BTW my brother is using the 3770K now. It works fine for him since he doesn't know about >60Hz gaming.

 

[DuckThor Evil]

You're getting pretty close to peak CPU performance (9800X3D excluded) and the 4070 Super is about as good as you can do right now.

What GPU did you have? I went from 3770K + GTX970 to 13600K + RTX4070. The difference was HUGE and now I'm spoiled by 1440p 120+Hz gaming. I can never go back

BTW my brother is using the 3770K now. It works fine for him since he doesn't know about >60Hz gaming.

Well right now I have a GTX 960 2GB in there, but that is only to get the picture out, I bought it used long time ago, it was the cheapest option to get HDMI 2.0 that I could find. I have not gamed on it at all. The last gaming GPUs I had were GTX 980 and AMD Fury Nano. I think the last game I played on the PC was Witcher 3 and the DLCs back in 2015-2016, then I got the PS4 Pro/Switch. I haven't gamed too much after 2020, maybe completed 5-6 games after that. I'll probably get a Switch 2 as well, but don't see much point in Xbox or Playstation anymore.

 

[homerdog]

Well right now I have a GTX 960 2GB in there, but that is only to get the picture out, I bought it used long time ago, it was the cheapest option to get HDMI 2.0 that I could find. I have not gamed on it at all. The last gaming GPUs I had were GTX 980 and AMD Fury Nano. I think the last game I played on the PC was Witcher 3 and the DLCs back in 2015-2016, then I got the PS4 Pro/Switch. I haven't gamed too much after 2020, maybe completed 5-6 games after that. I'll probably get a Switch 2 as well, but don't see much point in Xbox or Playstation anymore.

So you've been gaming on consoles for the last decade? Welcome back to the light.

This has been the most underwhelming console generation IMO. Looking at the specs it makes no sense, but I keep seeing games running at low resolutions with crappy upscaling and barely hitting 60fps. At the same time some of the best looking games of this gen are on the Switch. Luigi's Mansion 3 comes to mind. WTF.

 

[homerdog]

BTW this IQ/performance problem isn't a thing even on my midrange PC. The 4070 is enough to run all these games with good IQ and framerates. DLSS probably putting in work here. At 1440p even DLSS Balanced looks damn good.

 

[DuckThor Evil]

BTW this IQ/performance problem isn't a thing even on my midrange PC. The 4070 is enough to run all these games with good IQ and framerates. DLSS probably putting in work here. At 1440p even DLSS Balanced looks damn good.

Yeah can't wait to test it out! Not sure how long it takes to get all the parts in, might take close to two weeks... I also have a new TV coming in next week and I need to move some thing around... Too much stuff to do and Work is getting in the way a bit...

 

[homerdog]

Yeah can't wait to test it out! Not sure how long it takes to get all the parts in, might take close to two weeks... I also have a new TV coming in next week and I need to move some thing around... Too much stuff to do and Work is getting in the way a bit...

Two weeks damn.

Will you be plugging it into the TV? I highly recommend a 144+Hz 1440p monitor. I have the AOC Q27G3XMN. Games with proper HDR look breathtaking. Just avoid forcing HDR in games that don't natively support it unless you want to wear sunglasses. 1000nit menu screens will put hair on your chest.

 

[DuckThor Evil]

I might get a monitor later on, but the TV should provide some nice views as well. It's a 98" TCL X955. I think it's nearly identical to a US model QM851G. A 144hz miniled with over 5000 dimming zones, they advertize over 5000nits, which might be stretching it a bit, but HDR should be good anyway

 

[Davros]

F*** me, do you live in an aircraft hanger or something

 

[DuckThor Evil]

Small apartment haha. The viewing distance is between 3-4.5 meters.

 

[Malo]

Small apartment haha. The viewing distance is between 3-4.5 meters.

That's like the whole damn wall

 

[arandomguy]

The small apartment -

 

[Albuquerque]

With a 7600X3D and a 4070, you've got a fantastic setup for basically any game you'd want to play.

I went to go google a bit on your TCL set; good gravy that's a crazy setup! Up to 5000 nits of brightness would melt someone's retinas in a dark room! If PC HDR gaming wasn't in such a sad state, I'd say you might have the perfect display device for HDR gaming, or really any HDR viewing.