We have reported before,AMD The gaming performance of the latest Ryzen 7 9850X3D is not much different from that of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which means that for players who want to save budget, it is obvious Ryzen 7 9800X3D Will be the option with higher CP value.
Recent test reports from foreign media have once again confirmed this. Ryzen 7 9800X3D only needs to simply adjust the PBO settings, and the game performance can catch up with Ryzen 7 9850X3D, which is a direct free upgrade (of course there is still a small cost).
Ryzen 7 9800X3D can catch up with Ryzen 7 9850X3D in performance by simply adjusting PBO settings
For readers who don’t know much about Ryzen 7 9850X3D, here is a brief introduction to its specifications and the difference between it and Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
Ryzen 7 9850X3D is also a Zen 5 + 3D V-Cache combination that focuses on gaming. It uses the AM5 platform and is equipped with 8 cores, 16 threads and a large-capacity L3 cache design. The specifications are basically the same as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, such as the number of cores, threads and 3D V-Cache. The main difference is only in the maximum clock speed, which is increased from 5.2GHz to 5.6GHz, 400MHz more.
Although the measured performance of Ryzen 7 9850X3D is indeed 3.3% faster than Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the price is also 40 to 70 US dollars higher. Foreign media Tom’s Hardware believes that such a gap is not worth paying such a high amount of money.
In their CPU evaluation, they found that when the Ryzen 7 9800X3D turns on PBO, allowing the motherboard to determine the power consumption limit (or lift the limit), and adding a manual Boost clock offset of +200MHz, the performance is very close to the Ryzen 7 9850X3D.
PBO is a dynamic mechanism that automatically squeezes out more performance when temperature and power consumption conditions permit. However, since this will introduce uncontrollable variables, it may invalidate the warranty. Players who really want to do this may want to think twice.
Let’s first look at the game test of “A Plague Tale: Requiem”. After turning on PBO on the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, it improved by 4.4% compared to the original settings, even higher than the Ryzen 7 9850X3D with the original settings. However, the 9850X3D also showed a very eye-catching 7.3% growth when PBO was turned on:
The performance improvement of the “Baldur’s Gate 3” game is not that obvious. It is speculated that it may be related to the clock speed. Foreign media observed that this game reaches its upper limit around 5.45GHz:
“Counter-Strike 2” is quite good. Whether it is 9800X3D or 9850X3D, after turning on PBO and increasing 200MHz, the average frame rate increases by about 1.5%:
“Cyberpunk 2077” is a game that relies heavily on the GPU, so the performance of the original 9800X3D and 9850X3D is almost exactly the same. The average clock speed has never exceeded about 5.4GHz, which means that the processor has hit a bottleneck in this game:
“Doom: Dark Age” is also a game with extremely heavy load on the GPU. Therefore, even if PBO is turned on, it will increase a little, but the power consumption and temperature will also increase. From the perspective of efficiency and performance ratio, the original 9800X3D is the best balance point:
Tom’s Hardware also shares actual tests of multiple games, and this article only summarizes the above ones.
Overall, after turning on PBO, the performance of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is indeed closer to that of the Ryzen 7 9850X3D that is not turned on, but it is still not completely tied.
But to be honest, even without PBO turned on, Ryzen 7 9850X3D is at most single-digit FPS ahead of Ryzen 7 9800X3D in various games. In terms of actual gaming experience, you should basically not feel the difference, so I really recommend the cheaper Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
Source: KOCPC Chinese