AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Boasts Up to 84 Percent Better Gaming Performance than 1800X, a Remarkable Multi-Generational Improvement

[Tsing]

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German IT site Golem.de has pitted every generation of AMD’s 8-core Ryzen 7 X800X processors against one another to determine just how big of a leap there is between the original Zen (2017) and Zen 3 (2020) microarchitectures.



A chart of the results compiled by 3D Center succinctly lays out the dramatic generational improvements, with the Ryzen 7 5800X demonstrating an incredible 75.7 percent bump in game performance (average FPS) over the first-generation Ryzen 7 1800X. The 89 percent improvement in application performance is equally as stunning.



Note that each generation of Zen has resulted in a 20 percent or higher uplift in gaming performance...

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[Dan_D]

Unfortunately, the **** thing is nearly mythological in nature. They are as hard (or harder) to get than GPU's are right now.

 

[ThreeDee]

yeah .. I'd really like to give Newegg some more money for either a 5900x or a 6800 (which ever shows up in stock first I suppose) .. but my Newegg CC is just sitting her burning a whole in my sock drawer ..

 

[hubaduba]

5800X is the 'most" available of the Zen 3 chips. I'm hunting for a 6800XT or 6900XT and the 5800X shows up much more often than those. If you're set on a 5900X or 5950X, you'll probably be waiting a while.