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.