"For at least the past year, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been the best CPU for high-end gaming, and it wasn't particularly close. Thanks to its additional cache, high boost speed, and refinement over several generations of Ryzen chips that came before, it's been an easy pick for anyone with the budget looking for the right balance of efficiency and speed. AMD's follow-up, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, is technically faster, but you'd be hard-pressed to tell them apart when you're actually gaming."
"When you stack the specs for the chips next to each other, the only difference is a 5.6-GHz max boost clock, compared to the older chip's 5.2-GHz boost. In reality, it's likely these are actually the same underlying chip, with AMD "binning" them by testing cores for reliability and speed, then sorting them into SKUs based on how they perform."
The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been the best CPU for high-end gaming for the past year due to additional cache, high boost speed, and generational refinements. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is technically faster but shows negligible real-world gaming difference, making upgrades from 9800X3D unnecessary. The only spec difference is a 5.6-GHz max boost versus 5.2-GHz. AMD likely bins chips into SKUs based on tested core reliability and speed. The reviewed system used an Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero motherboard, 32 GB 6000 MHz memory, Samsung 9100 Pro SSD, and an Nvidia RTX 5080 FE.
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