They publish the first full review of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, it’s an i5-12600K for $190 more

Taking advantage of the fact that it does not have any type of confidentiality agreement signed with AMD, the TechPowerUp site published its complete review of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, revealing its performance in a large number of tests. As you may have already read in the title, the results are quite disappointing, being basically on a par with the Core i5-12600K, which is available for $260 compared to the $450 that this new red CPU will cost.

Performance on 100% CPU tasks

In the different tests of rendering, code compilation, productivity, and other tasks that use only the processor, on average the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is only 1% ahead of the i5-12600K, and the Ryzen 7 5800X, its predecessor without 3D V -Cache, yields 2.5% more than this new processor, showing that in general its lower frequency produces more losses than the gain that this new 3D cache adds, taking a step back instead of a step forward as should be expected with the introduction of a new technology.

gaming performance

In games we do notice improvements, matching the i9-12900K and this time making a good difference compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X, surpassing it by 7.5%. Compared to the Core i5-12600K, it exceeds it by 4.1%, although this difference can be easily reduced by overclocking this blue CPU by a few MHz, something that is not possible with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D since AMD blocked overclocking in this processor.

Although we are not going to put all the content so as not to take visibility away from the TechPowerUp review, we also tell you that on the consumption and temperature side, although the Ryzen 7 5800X3D consumes 23W less than the i5-12600K, it heats 11°C more using same heatsink, so the i5-12600K will run cooler, giving you room to squeeze a few extra MHz out of it for even more performance.

In short, the Ryzen 7 5800X costs 73% more than the i5-12600K, and outperforms it by only 1% in processor-only tasks, and 4% in gaming, so clearly the Intel CPU blows it away on price. performance. Also, as we mentioned before, these differences can be easily canceled by overclocking the blue CPU, which we remember is not possible in the red processor, so we will have the same performance while saving a lot of money. Other advantages of the blue CPU are that it runs cooler, and it also has more advanced I/O, including support for DDR5 and PCI-E 5.0, so it is clearly better to go for the Intel CPU if you are looking for a CPU in this range. .

We invite you to read the complete TechPowerUp review by clicking here, to see in detail how the new Ryzen 7 5800X3D performs.

What do you think about the performance of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D? Does this release make sense or was it better to wait and directly launch Zen 4?