Whenever a new product is on the market, there are always some old products that are sold at a lower price due to various reasons such as giving up the market and clearing inventory. It is possible that multiple choices will appear at a certain price. For consumers, having more choices is a good thing, but it also brings troubles.
For example, the two old Zen3 architecture products with the recent Zen3 architecture, Ryzen 7 5800X3D and Ryzen 9 5900X, have begun to reduce prices after the Zen4 product is launched. In addition, the new Ryzen 7 7700X has also begun to reduce prices significantly recently. These three popular CPUs can be purchased at a price of around 2,299 yuan, so how should we choose?
Ryzen 7 7700X: Strong overall strength, but high installation cost
Among the four Zen4 architecture Ryzen , the main 8-core force is not the Ryzen 7 7800X that everyone speculates, but Ryzen 7 7700X, which may surprise everyone. Although the Ryzen 7 7700X is still 8 cores and 16 threads, due to the upgrade of its architecture from Zen3 to Zen4, with the improvement of the micro architecture front-end, the load/storage part and branch prediction part, the secondary cache and execution engine with doubled capacity, the multi-core performance has still been significantly improved.
At the same time, the Ryzen 7 7700X has used a 5nm process, with a basic frequency of 4.5GHz and a maximum acceleration frequency of 5.4GHz. The highest frequency is no longer the weakness of Ryzen CPU. Coupled with stronger IPC performance, the gaming performance is definitely the biggest highlight of Ryzen 7 7700X, and its actual performance has surpassed the previous generation flagships of its competitors.
, and the official guide price of Ryzen 7 7700X 2999 yuan is 200 yuan cheaper than the previous generation, but it dropped to 2299 yuan more than a month after it was launched, which is even much cheaper than the Core i5 13600K. It can be said that the current price is quite real.
is just . Although the price of CPU is good, the motherboard and memory that match it is not cheap. Since the Ryzen 7000 has replaced the interface, it can only be used to match the 600 series motherboard. Currently, the cheapest B650 costs at least 1,399 yuan, which is not cheap. Moreover, the Ryzen 7000 series directly cancels support for DDR4 memory and can only use DDR5 memory. The current DDR5 5200 16GB product is not much more expensive than the same capacity DDR4, but 6000MHz is the dessert frequency of the Ryzen 7000 platform. The price of this type of product is above 800 yuan, which is still relatively high.
To sum up, if you want strong comprehensive performance, the Ryzen 7 7700X is a good choice. However, although the CPU price has been reduced a lot, the assembly cost of the entire platform is still relatively high, suitable for users with relatively sufficient budgets.
Ryzen 7 5800X3D: An affordable choice for creating a high-performance gaming platform
Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a very unique CPU product launched by AMD in the first half of this year. Its way to improve game performance is neither a common improvement architecture nor a frequency increase. Instead, based on the Ryzen 7 5800X, 64MB of Level 3 cache was added through 3D V-Cache technology, and a total of 96MB of Level 3 cache was obtained, which can greatly improve the hit rate of the game's random data, thereby improving game performance.
In other aspects, Ryzen 7 5800X3D still has 8 cores and 16 threads specifications. In order to balance power consumption, the frequency of 3.4GHz to 4.5GHz has dropped. With the advantages of super-large level 3 cache, the gaming performance of Ryzen 7 5800X3D has been greatly improved. Even if it is placed in the current CPU price of 2,000 yuan, it does not seem out of date at all.
I personally think that the biggest advantage of Ryzen 7 5800X3D is its high cost performance. The product is available for sale at 3,099 yuan, and the lowest price in the near future is less than 2,200 yuan. Not only does the CPU price cuts a lot, but it can also be matched with relatively affordable hardware such as B550 and DDR4 memory. The entire platform has good gaming performance and the total price can be controlled very well.
For those players who want to build a high-performance gaming platform and are relatively leisurely budgeted, Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a good choice for cost-effectiveness.
Ryzen 9 5900X: Suitable for creating professional hosts
Don’t forget that there is another product at the price of around 2,200 yuan, that is Ryzen 9 5900X. This product is the sub-flagship of the Ryzen 5000 series, equipped with 12 cores and 24 thread specifications, and a core frequency of 3.7GHz~4.8GHz. It is not difficult to see that the advantage of Ryzen 9 5900X is that it has a large number of cores, which makes it perform very well in professional applications that test the performance of multi-threaded . The competitor Core i5 13600K at similar prices is only 6E+8P with a total of 14 cores and 20 threads. The Ryzen 9 5900X is still better.
In addition, Ryzen 9 5900X uses the Zen3 architecture and still performs well in single-threaded performance. It can be said that there are no shortcomings in both single-core and multi-core.
For various pictures, video processing tools, 3D rendering output and video transcoding tools, file compression tools and other software that content creation users often use, mainly takes the multi-core performance of the CPU. basically the number of threads determines the performance of the processor in these applications . The Ryzen 9 5900X, which can provide 24 threads, can be said to be a rare enemy at the price of over 2,000 yuan.
