There is no doubt that AMD has made a splash with its Ryzen 7000 and they have become the best processors of the year in terms of performance. At least until the departure of the Intel Core 13, if they do not recover the yellow jersey with their next generation of processors. In all this arrangement, a processor from the Ryzen 5000 range has been involved and is being ignored by Lisa Su. That is why we have decided to compare the 5800X3D with the AMD 7700X.
Just over a year ago, at Computex 2021, the AMD CEO showed the world the first CPU with V-Cache, the invention consists of vertically connecting a memory on the processor to thereby increase the last level cache. The result? An IPC increase of 15% due to the fact that the amount of data in cache is increased and the latency of the instructions is reduced. The problem for AMD? The advantage is such that it competes against its Ryzen 7000 in terms of performance. This has caused AMD to have begun to erase it from the map and Intel is reminding it.
The AMD Ryzen 5800X3D, the CPU that AMD wants to forget
What happens when you launch a product so good that it puts in evidence the last thing you have launched? Well, you decide to ignore its existence for the gallery. This was what AMD did during the presentation of its Ryzen 7000 with its 5800X3D, its only processor with V-Cache so far. The fun of it? Intel, its competition, was in charge of remembering it a few days ago and we have to admit that we had overlooked it.
As you can see in the graph that Intel published in the presentation of its Intel Core 13, the 5800X3D would be the best processor that AMD has to play at the moment, even above the Ryzen 7000. Which is surprising to us that since Intel praise a rival processor and more one that uses a technology that they can not replicate at the moment. Is what Intel says true or is it just crude FUD propaganda?
Ryzen 7 5800X3D versus Ryzen 7 7700X?
We have decided to compare both AMD processors due to the fact that they both have 8 cores and 16 threads, which is the maximum that PC games ask for in their recommended requirements today. If we focus on most synthetic benchmarks, which tend to run on the first two cache levels due to their small size, then we find that the 7700X beats the 5800X3D hands down. However, it is in games where the difference between the two processors is completely shortened and they begin to exchange blows equally, although we have to tell you that Intel’s statement is not entirely true.
As you can see in the graph, it depends on the game we are talking about, in some of them the number of frames are almost identical, in another the 7700X wins and in others the 5800X3D. So it is a lottery. Keep in mind that manufacturers often present performance tests with the results selected in favor of the product they are presenting. In any case, the reality is that the 7700X is a processor with a better architecture, which will eventually have its X3D version.
