The launch of the new Ryzen 7 9800X3D It was one of the most anticipated of this year, especially by users who use their PC to play after the good performance offered by the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and represents a significant financial investment, since its price is dangerously close to 600 euros.
With such a high price, many users wonder if it is really worth making such a high financial investment to play.
This is the same question that many users have asked themselves and to find the answer you just have to take a look at the data available on UserBenchmark, a website where they also recommend which are the best options currently available on the market and where the Ryzen 7 9800X3D does not come out very well.
Not only the processor is important, but also the graphics
While it is true that it offers excellent performance in games, if we are looking for a good processor to play that does not give us problems, it is recommended to use the Intel Core i5-13600K or the Intel Core i5-14600Kprocessors that cost less than half of the 9800X3D.
In the real world, to get the most out of the graphic quality of a video game, we should not rely solely on the processor, since most of the work is done by the GPU. There is no point in using the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an RTX 30 graphics card. To get the most out of it, it is necessary to use the most powerful graphics card that we can currently find on the market, the RTX 4090waiting for the RTX 50 that NVIDIA will present in early 2025.
Through the UserBenchmark website, we can access a list of all the processors on the market and where we can organize them based on price, performance, value and more. If we apply the filter based on performance, the Intel Core i9-14900KS tops the list, followed by the KF variant and the Intel Core i9-13900KS. To find the Ryzen 7 9800X3D we must go down to position number 15. The highest-end processor in Intel’s new Core Ultra range, the 285K is located in position 11.
Best performance-price ratio
The performance data that we can find in UserBenchmark is based on the data obtained by thousands of users and seeks to offer an effective speed that adjusts to the prices of the processors available on the market to obtain the best value for our money, being the Intel Core i5-13600K or the Intel Core i5-14600K the best options as we have commented above.
In its analysis of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, this website states that AMD is using a very aggressive marketing strategy instead of being based on the real need of the majority of users. Intel, with a non-existent marketing campaign, has made it very easy for itself with the Core Ultra 9 285K, whose performance is 40% below AMD’s new gaming processor.
All the reviews that have been published about the performance of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D have been made with the NVIDIA RTX 4090, a combination that allows you to get the most out of any game, however, not everyone is lucky enough to afford such a combination of components .
