7900 with AMD Wraith RGB Prism CPU Cooler: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/175568622641
Good price for a 12 core CPU on AMD side. this is comparable to 13700k. 7900 non x version can work well in an A620 mainboard with almost similar performance. could be worth it if you are on the am5 platform already with a 7600/x or 7700/x and want more performance.
but 7800x3d is better and has been <$550
These CPUs have different use cases. 7800x3d is Only good for gaming. Even a Ryzen 7 7700 outperforms the 7800x3d in computational tasks such as rendering/decompressing etc. 7800x3d has 8 cores,16 threads while 7900x has 12 cores,24 threads.
just a fun friday night ramble i spose
Gamers shouldn't really be looking at these kind of CPUs. This is for high end productivity. HEVC encoding by default takes up over 90% of the CPU power. Sometimes 99%. Gaming at 4K would barely hit 50%. Graphic rendering and HEVC encoding are the two most draining things a CPU can do. If you're not doing those things you're wasting its performance and can easily get by with much lower tiers. Only a small group of customers would actually utilise the full power of a 7900x or 7950x.
Even ignoring that most of your workstation use cases are niche, the 7900X3D is about to hit $650 here, probably worth some consideration.
Why would x3d cpus get discounted? The next series is still 6+ months away.
@TsunamiInTheHouse: It's already happened in the US, though our 7800X3D sales prices were already lower.
The reasoning is simple: fab costs get cheaper over time, excess server chiplets and cache supply wind up in consumer SKUs as server demand wanes. The 7900X3D has always been a poor seller, as it's a 6-core 3D cache chiplet with a 6-core regular.
@jasswolf: I don't see the X3D getting significantly cheaper because of excess EPYC chiplets, but the 7900X3D would probably see a price cut again since they have to dump supply eventually (the 7600X in the states is cheaper than the 7600 right now, because everyone know just to buy the 7600 and turn on PBO), but they might end up just selling off the 6C v-cache CCD as a 7600X3D rather than make more 7900X3D.
@[Deactivated]: They've already announced price cuts.
Keep in mind there'd be a lot of orders being changed due to the increasing demand for NPUs, custom designs, Zen 4c, etc.
With ryzen 9000 series releasing in 2-4 months its worth waiting. There will be a node shrink with more IPC gains.
Hopefully we'll get cheaper motherboards this year.
I wonder if there's going to be an A720 and B750.. what new feature they can possibly add here? Maybe faster memory support and PCIe 5.0 will become the norm.
Am5 boards are usually pretty feature rich atm.
Usb4.0 is basically guranteed, but other than that? Maybe better memory support.
I'm holding out for 9000 - hoping they come before June 30 so I can write it off on tax.
7700x went up in price. That is weird.
Waiting for 78003d to go on sale - been $580 ish forever now
C’mon 7950x next 🤞🤞