Can we please remove brain rot comments and get an actual explanation of why the OP should upgrade to a 9800x3d for 4K gaming as TPU data is showing little to no difference in the relative performance summary for Max Avg and Min at 4K.
I am personally invested as also have my trigher finger on the 9950x3d but there is LITTLE to NO reliable data apart from what TPU has shown.
Because the OP is building a new PC and listed one of only two CPUs options. Stating why the 9800X3D is the better choice has already been done by a half dozen people, it's the better CPU as proven by all their test results. The 9950X3D is yet to launch so there are no reviews on it so how can TPU show any test results on it?
The use case is 4K by the OP thus please explain the benefit of a 9800x3d over the 7700 in 4K based off TPUs Max Avg and Min FPS.
no it is not, his case does not include the 7700. He never mentioned it
the main benefit being the 9800X3D will perform better in more demanding games, games that can take full advantage to the extra cache, and future GPU upgrades when the RTX5090 can no longer offer the performance the OP wants.
The test I quoted is only 1080p Native
if someone needs to explain why CPU tests are done at low resolution one more time in this this thread we may all be up for a some sort of redundancy (and possibly ignorance) prize
But his test pretty much only shows that unsurprisingly 1200P isn't that different compared to 1080p.
through the sure miracle of the latin alphabet & basic reading compression we are able to understand exactly what the writer believes his test shows and it makes a double wammy as it actually answers Frizz's question as well. (again)
What We Learned
Hopefully, by this point, you understand why testing CPU performance with a strong GPU bottleneck is a flawed approach and significantly more misleading than the well-established testing methods used by nearly all tech media outlets.
We get why some readers prefer what's often referred to as "real-world" testing, but in the context of CPU benchmarks, it doesn't actually provide the insight you might think – unless you plan on using that exact hardware combo under those specific conditions.
Moreover, CPU reviews aren't meant to push you into upgrading your CPU or upsell you on a more expensive one. The purpose of low-resolution testing is to inform you of the real performance and value the CPU offers in today's games, especially in the most demanding sections, and often gives a glimpse of how things might look in the future.
There are also aspects you need to work out on your end – whether you actually need a CPU upgrade and, if so, what that upgrade should look like. As we've said multiple times, if you're more of a casual gamer, mainly playing single-player games at around 60 fps, chances are you're not CPU-limited, unless you have a very old CPU. If that's the case, you're probably interested in a more cost-effective upgrade, like a Ryzen 5 7600 or Ryzen 7 7700X....
Alternatively, if you're after high-end performance and want the best of the best, you don't need to look at cost-per-frame data – just go for the fastest gaming CPU, which is currently the 9800X3D. Low-resolution benchmarks confirm this, and we're confident future titles will show similar results to what we saw when comparing the Ryzen 3000 and 5000 series processors.
