AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D beats the Core i9 12900K in gaming benchmarks

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The launch of AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D is imminent. Chips are out in the wild and early bird reviews and benchmarks are popping up on the web. Given that AMD has been touting the gaming prowess of the 5800X3D, we've been waiting to see if that claim holds up. And it appears that it does.

Peruvian hardware site Xanxo Gaming (via 3DCenter) managed to get hold of a retail Ryzen 7 5800X3D and put it through a comprehensive suite of benchmarks, comparing it to Intel's Core i9 12900KF. As the site wasn't sampled by AMD, it's not subject to an embargo.

The reviewer compared 11 games running at 720p and 1080p. In games that are less sensitive to the amount of cache, The CPUs are mostly neck and neck. However, there are several games that show significant increases. In games such as The Witcher 3 and Final Fantasy XV, the AMD Ryzen 5800X3D had a lead of 22% and 29% respectively. There are many instances of 1% lows heavily favouring the 5800X3D too.

The 720p results aren't all that relevant to real world use cases, and they show even larger gains. Though again, the differences between the two systems are negligible in many cases.

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Though this is just one set of results, early indicators are that AMD's claim that the 5800X3D is a gaming oriented processor appear true. Productivity benchmarks show little to no gain, and some will actually regress due to the slightly lowered clock speeds. But that's fine, AMD hasn't made any claims to the contrary.

It's worth noting that the two test systems use DDR4-3200 memory. The 12900KF supports DDR5