Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs. Core i9-12900K in 40 Games

Today we’re operating a large gaming benchmark comparability between the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and Core i9-12900K. We’ll be evaluating the 2 face to face throughout 40 video games at 1080p, 1440p and 4K, utilizing a variety of video games from battle royale to real-time technique titles, so there ought to be one thing for everybody.

One of our greatest issues for this massive benchmark was how we have been going to configure every CPU. Normally we would simply take a look at each utilizing low latency twin rank DDR4-3200 CL14 reminiscence, for an apples-to-apples comparability. But we weren’t satisfied that’d take advantage of sense for these two CPUs, given AMD and Intel are pitching them as the final word gaming processors.

As a gamer, you’d solely purchase the Core i9-12900K since you need the most effective of the most effective, not less than from Intel. Whereas you’d purchase the Ryzen 7 5800X3D since you need the most effective gaming CPU the AM4 platform has to supply. With every CPU claiming to be the most effective for avid gamers, we thought it’d take advantage of sense to check them with the very best reminiscence configuration.

Personally, after having examined all 4 configurations for our day-one 5800X3D assessment per week in the past, we discovered the DDR4-3800 vs DDR5-6400 comparability probably the most fascinating, so that is what we have gone with. This means all of the testing you are about to see was gathered utilizing the Core i9-12900K on the MSI Z690 Unify motherboard utilizing G.Skill’s Trident Z5 DDR5-6400 CL32 reminiscence, whereas the Ryzen 7 5800X has been examined utilizing DDR4-3800 CL16 reminiscence with the MSI X570S Carbon Max WiFi.

This is the quickest reminiscence we are able to use with the Ryzen 7 whereas operating at a 1:1 ratio with the FCLK. The reminiscence used to check the Ryzen 7 processor prices $265, whereas the DDR5 reminiscence used with the Core i9 at the moment prices $480. The different take a look at system notes to pay attention to is that Resizable BAR is enabled utilizing the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.

Benchmarks

Starting with Valorant, utilizing medium high quality settings given it is a aggressive title, the 5800X3D pushes the RTX 3090 Ti to 668 fps on common at 1080p making it 15% sooner than the 12900K, utilizing DDR5-6400 reminiscence, or 32% sooner when evaluating the 1% low knowledge which is a big efficiency enchancment, although the Core i9 processor did permit for nicely over 300 fps always in our testing.

Similar margins are additionally seen at 1440p and 4K as a result of we’re closely CPU restricted on this title when utilizing the RTX 3090 Ti with medium high quality settings and this can possible be the case with most higher-end GPUs.

Fortnite additionally favors the 5800X3D at 1080p and 1440p, although it does extra so for the typical body price than the 1% lows. Here the Ryzen 7 processor was as much as 11% sooner and it isn’t till we bounce as much as the 4K decision that the margin is neutralized and now each CPUs are restricted to the identical stage of efficiency.

Next we’ve Call of Duty Warzone, and this title seems to play higher with the upper clocked Core i9-12900K which pushed the typical body price at 1080p 17% larger with a 21% enhance to 1% lows and these margins have been roughly the identical at 1440p. Even at 4K, the Core i9 processor loved a fairly important efficiency benefit and whereas it’s tough to get correct numbers with these multiplayer titles, this knowledge is predicated on a 3-run common.

Moving on to Assetto Corsa Competizione, this one closely favors the 5800X3D, boosting efficiency at 1080p and 1440p over the 12900K by round 24%, although solely as much as 13% for the 1% lows. Then by the point we attain 4K the sport turns into fully GPU restricted utilizing the RTX 3090 Ti with the medium high quality settings.

Another title we see continuously requested for CPU benchmarking is Cities Skylines, and whereas we’ve included it previously, it is all the time confirmed to be a horrible title for benchmarking resulting from its single core nature which creates a heavy bottleneck. But resulting from standard request we thought we would give it one other shot.

For testing we’re utilizing a big metropolis from a save sport we downloaded for testing. Looking at CPU utilization, it solely appears to closely make the most of a single core, with an extra 2-3 cores utilized to the tune of 20-30% with the 12900K.

As a consequence the sport is closely CPU restricted, and the huge L3 cache of the 5800X3D would not assist it pull forward of the 12900K. It may actually assist relative to the 5800X, however we do not have that knowledge simply but. When it involves Cities Skylines efficiency, these two CPUs are a detailed match and each didn’t hit 60 fps, although you do not want excessive body charges to take pleasure in this sport.

StarCraft II solely makes use of a single core and whereas body charges are a lot larger, the sport is closely CPU restricted. The 12900K was 5% sooner however each processors pushed over 200 fps in our mid-game replay benchmark.

Apex Legends runs barely higher on the 5800X3D, providing a small efficiency benefit over the 12900K, even at 4K. We’re taking a look at a 4% enhance at 1080p, 6% at 1440p and 5% at 4K. Certainly not a distinction you will discover, however the AMD CPU is technically sooner right here.

Unlike Apex Legends, Dying Light 2 is not a sport the place you want a whole bunch of frames per second, so both CPU works nicely even if the 5800X3D was a bit of sooner.

Rainbow Six Siege is a aggressive sport, so for this take a look at we opted for barely dialed down high quality settings with the very top quality preset against extremely. We’re solely GPU restricted at 4K and even there body charges exceeded 200 fps. At 1080p the 5800X3D was 3% sooner, however then 3% slower at 1440p.

You may declare margin of error, however after quite a few 3-run averages the AMD CPU was persistently a bit of sooner on the decrease decision after which a bit of slower on the larger decision. Interestingly, these similar efficiency developments have been additionally seen in Rainbow Six Extraction utilizing the Vulkan API.

We additionally examined Battlefield 2042, however listed here are the Battlefield V outcomes as a result of much more gamers are testing that sport. Also, 2042 sucks and we have been booted from our take a look at server a number of occasions to get this knowledge. For Battlefield V followers, both CPU will serve you nicely, efficiency was principally similar.

F1 2021 was examined utilizing the top quality preset and we’re taking a look at nicely over 300 fps at 1080p. The 5800X3D was technically sooner, however we’re speaking a few small 3% enhance to the typical body price and a 7% enhance in 1% lows. At 1440p the 12900K jumped forward by a mere 3%, and on the GPU restricted 4K decision efficiency was similar.

In Halo the 12900K was as much as 6% sooner, however efficiency total was a lot the identical. At 1440p we’re taking a look at over 150 fps on common with only a few frames separating every CPU. Even at 4K, body charges remained above 100 fps.

It’s an identical story in Red Dead Redemption 2 utilizing the top quality settings. Performance is similar with simply 1-2 fps in it at 1080p and nothing at 1440p and 4K.

The Outer Worlds is an Unreal Engine 4 sport which generally favors Intel and Nvidia {hardware}, however right here the 5800X3D does very nicely. Impressively, at 1080p the Ryzen CPU was as much as 17% sooner, seen when wanting on the 1% lows, however even the typical body price was nonetheless 14% larger.

Even at 1440p, the 5800X3D was comfortably out in entrance when wanting on the 1% lows, the place it was 16% sooner. Oddly, the 4K knowledge nonetheless favored the Ryzen processor, the place it supplied as much as 10% extra efficiency and an incredible consequence for the cache-heavy 5800X3D.

In Death Stranding, the 12900K restricted efficiency at 1080p to 212 fps, making the 5800X3D 13% sooner and this margin was solely barely lowered to 10% at 1440p. Then at 4K we’re utterly GPU certain, wrapping issues up at 147 fps.

Performance Summary

We’ve checked out a bit of over a dozen of the video games examined, however with 40 in complete, there’s much more knowledge to go over, so let’s check out the breakdown graphs masking 1080p, 1440p and 4K resolutions.

Starting with the 1080p outcomes, we see that the 5800X3D was simply 1% sooner on common, however that is a powerful consequence given the Ryzen processor is utilizing DDR4-3800 CL16 reminiscence, whereas the 12900K was paired with way more costly DDR5-6400 CL32 reminiscence. The 5800X3D loved massive wins in ACC, Valorant, The Outer Worlds and Death Stranding, whereas it was 14% slower in Hitman 3 and Warzone.

It’s price noting that of the 40 video games examined, 60% of them noticed a margin of 5% of much less in both course, that means efficiency was very comparable for almost all of the video games examined, therefore the 1% margin total.

Moreover, there have been simply 11 video games the place the margin was 10% or higher, and keep in mind we’re utilizing an RTX 3090 Ti, typically with dialed down high quality settings, so total these two flagship gaming CPUs are usually evenly matched.

Increasing the decision to 1440p would not change the margin. The 5800X3D was ~1% sooner total. However, we’re now taking a look at simply half a dozen situations the place the margin prolonged to double digits with 29 video games the place the margin was 5% or much less. ACC was an outlier once more, favoring the 5800X3D by a 26% margin, whereas CoD Warzone was the worst consequence for AMD.

At 4K, Valorant and The Outer Worlds have been the most effective titles for AMD, with CSGO being the one sport the place the margin prolonged to a double-digit loss. Overall, the 5800X3D was simply 1% sooner, which suggests the efficiency was about the identical total.

We noticed a margin of three% or much less in 26 of the 40 video games examined, that means 65% of the time we have been taking a look at close to similar efficiency at 4K, the place we’re usually GPU certain.

What We Learned

As we found in our launch assessment, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is certainly an incredible CPU for gaming, providing massive beneficial properties over the unique Zen 3 fashions to match Intel newest and best.

In our day-one assessment we solely featured 8 video games (with varied reminiscence configurations) and from that pattern the 12900K paired with DDR5-6400 reminiscence was 2.5% sooner. Today we’ve 40 video games and the margin has narrowed to a single % delta in AMD’s favor, which for all sensible functions means these flagship components ship comparable gaming efficiency.

Based on that, we anticipate the 5800X3D to be ~7-8% sooner than the 12900K in the event that they have been each utilizing the identical DDR4 reminiscence, which isn’t a large margin, however the Ryzen 7 half can supply the superior efficiency total for that match up. This additionally implies that the Ryzen might be round 10% sooner when in comparison with the Core i7-12700K (arguably Intel’s finest gaming worth CPU), so maybe that is one thing we ought to be operating quickly.

On that word, we’re additionally eager so as to add the Ryzen 7 5800X to this 40 sport benchmark comparability appropriately fascinating to see when and the place that massive L3 cache turns out to be useful. There are actually a couple of fascinating spin off comparisons we are able to make, so do tell us what you’d prefer to see within the feedback part.

As for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs. Core i9-12900K battle, our day-one assessment summed it up the most effective and though we have examined 5 occasions extra video games right here, the conclusion goes unchanged: for these searching for most gaming efficiency, however do not wish to go silly with pricing, and care a bit about energy effectivity, the 5800X3D looks like the plain choice.

The benefit of the 12900K is that the LGA 1700 platform will assist not less than another CPU technology, whereas that is the tip of the highway for the AM4 platform. You may additionally argue that the 12900K might be overclocked, however actually you are not getting way more out of this chip and it is already a handful to chill at inventory.

Both of those CPUs are focusing on avid gamers who’re searching for the most effective of the most effective (the Core i9 would be the superior CPU for productiveness). We’ve talked about earlier than how the twelfth gen Core i7 vary makes extra sense for avid gamers, however make no mistake the additional 20% L3 cache supplied by the Core i9 does make a distinction in the case of final gaming efficiency.

And in case you’re after the easiest gaming efficiency you are unlikely to accept DDR4 reminiscence with the Core i9-12900K, you’d with the 12700K, however not the i9. Likewise, you are not going to make use of DDR4-3200 or slower with the 5800X3D, DDR4-3800 appears extra becoming which is why we examined these configurations.

The Core i7-12700KF is extra reasonably priced than the 5800X3D, so by way of worth that half ought to match up nicely if utilizing DDR4-3800 reminiscence. That’s most likely how we’ll run that comparability as we’re unsure pairing it with $480 DDR5 reminiscence can be the suitable transfer. That can even present us with apples to apples knowledge ought to we take a look at the 5800X.

To wrap this one up, the 5800X3D could be very spectacular, however so is Intel’s Alder Lake collection, so you have got loads of nice choices on each side which is nice information for customers.