It goes without saying that in application tests the Ryzen 7 7800X3D will be significantly slower than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D – it carries half the processor cores. However, this is a product aimed primarily at gamers (as opposed to higher models that combine the highest gaming performance, application performance and single-core boost), so the comparison applies to the segment for which the processor is intended.
As can be seen from the graph that compares the eight-core and sixteen-core models in gaming workloads, the average performance is similar. However, it is not nearly identical and shows that in some situations the Ryzen 7 7800X3D can be more powerful (FarCry 6, Total War: Three Kingdoms and Horizon Zero Dawn). In others (CyberPunk 2077, F1 2021, Dirt 5, Final Fantasy XIV and Middle Earth: Shadow of War), the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is slightly more powerful.
It can be said that there are more games in which the sixteen-core processor is faster, but the performance difference is smaller. On average, the difference is 0.76%, i.e. 7.6 ‰. In other words, a completely negligible value for most people, perhaps with the exception of the traffic police.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D will be released for $449, which is the same amount that the Ryzen 7 5800X cost, followed by the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite inflation, AMD is not increasing the price of octa-cores, on the contrary, V-cache has been added to the price.
