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Best Bench: 126% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.4 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 105% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg)

Poor: 105% Great: 126%

SPEED RANK: 27^th / 1442

Gaming 116%

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Desktop 117%

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Workstation 138%

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141,122 User Benchmarks

Best Bench: 96% Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 78% Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg)

Poor: 78% Great: 96%

SPEED RANK: 159^th / 1442

Gaming 87%

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Desktop 89%

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Workstation 89%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		116 %	Much faster effective speed. +33%		87 %


20 Oct22\|HardwareLUXX The Dino Intel is not yet extinct:...		20 %	Control 25%, CPunk 7%, RiftB 33%, TWarTroy 40%, F122 26%, DoomE 10%			SpiderM 2%
10 Mar21\|HardwareLUXX Processor non grata: Rocket Lake-S...					12 %	BFV 2%, SotTR 5%, MetroEx 35%, Divis2 5%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	81.5 Pts	Slightly lower memory latency. +7%	76.3 Pts
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	211 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +50%	141 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	411 Pts	Much faster dual-core speed. +49%	276 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	804 Pts	Much faster quad-core speed. +53%	524 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	1536 Pts	Much faster octa-core speed. +67%	922 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	92.2 Pts	+4%	88.8 Pts
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	218 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +47%	148 Pts
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	434 Pts	Much faster OC dual-core speed. +48%	293 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	863 Pts	Much faster OC quad-core speed. +51%	572 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	1693 Pts	Much faster OC octa-core speed. +64%	1034 Pts

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.13 %		0.17 %	Much higher market share. +31%
Value Value For Money	105 %	Better value. +23%	85.6 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	58 %		67 %	More popular. +16%
Price Price (score)	$394		$295	Cheaper. +25%


Age Newest	19 Months	Much more recent. +67%	57 Months
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	170 Watts		105 Watts	Much more energy efficient. +38%
Cores CPU Processing Cores	12 cores	Much higher core count. +50%	8 cores
Threads CPU Processing Threads	24 threads	Much higher thread count. +50%	16 threads
Lithography Manufacturing process	5 nm	Newer manufacturing. +29%	7 nm
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	4.7 GHz	Faster base frequency. +21%	3.9 GHz
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	5.6 GHz	Faster turbo frequency. +24%	4.5 GHz
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	2977 Pts	Hugely faster OC 64-core speed. +98%	1506 Pts
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	2800 Pts	Hugely faster 64-core speed. +100%	1401 Pts


Series CPU Architecture	Zen4	Zen2
Socket Motherboard Socket	AM5	AM4
Graphics Integrated Graphics	RDNA2	None

Within minutes of the first, pre-release, 7000 series userbenchmark results, AMD’s marketers broadcast a 20% win over the 12900K via thousands of anonymous twitter, reddit, forum and youtube accounts. Buying new AMD products is like buying used cars: it takes time, experience and a taste for sales hype. It’s difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominates “sponsored news” and social media channels. Ten years ago, when AMD was the underdog, this type of marketing was understandable. Today, with a capitalization of $150 Billion USD, it’s disrespectful to AMD's own users. Even with Intel's marketing department asleep at the wheel, Ryzen will quickly end up in the same state as Radeon. Following a series of overhyped releases, consumers have little interest in the Radeon brand. The combined market share for all of AMD’s (discrete) Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs (Steam stats) is just 2%. Although the new 7000 series Zen4 CPUs are actually around 15% faster than their predecessors, they have hefty cooling requirements (TDP +60% vs 5000 series), 30 second BIOS post times, expensive DDR5 RAM requirements and only work with expensive motherboards. Despite the 7000 series struggling to match Intel’s outgoing 12th gen, AMD market it as a “future proof” platform! They want users to pay a premium for last gen performance in exchange for the shallow promise of upgrades in the future. Over the next few days, Intel’s 13th gen (Raptor Lake) will launch. Shoppers will do well to wait until then. Despite AMD’s Neanderthal marketing techniques, it’s hard not to admire their technical progress. AMD-Raptor4 and Intel-Zen13 would be better fitting product names. ^{[Sep '22 CPUPro]}

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The Ryzen 7 3800X is an 8-core, 16-thread high end desktop Zen 2 processor, built on AMD’s seminal 7nm manufacturing process. It has a boost clock speed of 4.5 GHz, overtaking the previous Zen+ flagship, the Ryzen 7 2700X, by 200 MHz and around 16% in terms of effective speed. The 3800X is available at launch for $399 USD alongside four other new Zen 2 processors, including the similarly specified Ryzen 7 3700X. The main differences between the 3800X and 3700X being an extra 100 MHz of boost clock frequency on the 3800X and extra TDP headroom (105W for the 3800X versus 65W for the 3700X) for a $70 USD premium. The 21% higher release price translates to just a 2% higher effective speed over the 3700X. The 3800X is in direct competition with Intel’s i7-9700K, benchmarks show that, when overclocked, the 3800X is 10% worse for gaming but 30% faster for 64-core processing. The 3800X is also 15% ($50 USD) more expensive than the i7-9700K. Additionally, the 3800X's memory controller, although significantly improved over previous Ryzen iterations, still has limited bandwidth and high latency which can also impact gaming. Like the other third generation Ryzen processors, the 3800X is compatible with the new PCIe 4.0 enabled X570 chipset as well as the 400 and 300 series motherboards. At $380 USD, the 3800X offers reasonable value for purely workstation tasks such as film production but streamers should look elsewhere. Streaming with dedicated hardware such as NVENC or a separate stream PC will nearly always result in fewer dropped frames. ^{[Jul '19 CPUPro]}

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