The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is an incredible gaming CPU, but these four alternatives give AMD's latest a run for its money.
I’m not going to even pretend the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a bad CPU. It’s one of the best processors you can buy, and undoubtedly the best processor you can buy for gaming. There are just a couple of problems. It’s pretty expensive at nearly $500 for an eight-core CPU. Also, at the time of writing, it’s sold out everywhere — and signs don’t point to it being back in stock any time soon.
Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming Check your inbox! Privacy Policy I’ll point you in the direction of my head-to-head matchup between the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 7 9800X3D for the full details, but in short, the last-gen chip is only around 5% behind in most games. There are plenty of games where there’s no difference at all. If you look at graphically intensive titles like Black Myth: Wukong or Returnal, the two CPUs post basically identical results.
Core i9-14900K Intel’s Core i9-14900K has faced a lot of criticism, and rightfully so. It was at the center of a months-long controversy due to Intel’s instability issues, which were mostly ignored by the company during the beginning of the year. After many months, Intel has addressed the problem, and it doesn’t look like it’s coming back. Although it’s fair to doubt the Core i9-14900K given Intel’s track record this year, the CPU looks safe to buy now.
The one major caveat with the Core i9-14900K is power draw, and in turn, heat. Even at stock settings, it can sustain 250 watts of power draw. If you plan on picking up the Core i9-14900K, you’ll want an all-in-one liquid cooler, or at the very least, one of the beefier air coolers you can buy. The Ryzen 7 9700X is certainly slower than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in games, but it performs around the level of the Core i9-14900K overall. This CPU is living proof that most games don’t need much more than eight fast cores, even if you’re pushing the latest titles like Black Myth: Wukong. And once again, the benefits of AMD’s 3D V-Cache start to disappear as you push up the resolution and graphics settings.
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