AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

| Source: AMD Price: £368.99 Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

The 3rd Generation Ryzen processors have been hugely successful, combining excellent performance in every possible scenario with some cutting edge technologies and AMDs legendarily competitive pricing.

So far we've looked at a few of their models from the basic Ryzen 5 3400G all the way up to the current flagship Ryzen 9 3900X. If you are an enthusiastic user of your computer and everything it can possibly do then you'll know how important it is to have a well rounded CPU that has enough performance to handle video rendering or high resolution photo editing whilst also being easy enough to use to let you game whenever you wish without having to disable cores or worry about your fan profiles.

In short, you want a one stop solution. Probably the model that best straddles the line between affordability and performance is the one we have in for review today, the Ryzen 7 3800X. With a boost clock that hits around 4.5 GHz as well as eight cores and sixteen threads it is capable of handling all that you can demand of it, yet with a TDP of 105W and a price tag around the £370 mark it is also more affordable than the beefier range topping Ryzen 9 3900X but should still keep everything running smoothly.

That is, as always, what we're here to discover.

Technical Specifications

This table will be familiar to anyone who has studied the Ryzen range, and you can see that the Ryzen 7 3800X is similar to the Ryzen 7 3700X we've already reviewed, albeit with a big base clock increase and a reasonable boost clock improvement. Is that enough to best the already great Ryzen 7 3700X in our performance graphs?

(c)OC3D Ryzen 9 3950X Ryzen 9 3900X Ryzen 7 3800X Ryzen 7 3700X Ryzen 5 3600X Ryzen 5 3600 Base Clock 3.5 GHz 3.8 GHz 3.9 GHz 3.6 GHz 3.8 GHz 3.6 GHz Boost Clock 4.7 GHz 4.6 GHz 4.5 GHz 4.4 GHz 4.4 GHz 4.2 GHz Core/Thread 16/32 12/24 8/16 8/16 6/12 6/12 L2 Cache 8 MB 6 MB 4 MB 4 MB 3 MB 3 MB L3 Cache 64 MB 64 MB 32 MB 32 MB 32 MB 32 MB TDP 105W 105W 105W 65W 95W 65W Chiplets 3 3 2 2 2 2 MSRP $749 $499 $399 $329 $249 $199 Comparison i9-9900K i7-9700K i7-9700K i5-9600K i5-9600 Cooler Wraith Prism RGB Wraith Prism RGB Wraith Prism RGB Wraith Prism RGB Wraith Spire Wraith Stealth

Let's look at some slides before we move on to our testing.

1 - Introduction and Technical Specifications 2 - Test Setup and Overclocking 3 - Storage 4 - AIDA64 5 - SiSoft Sandra 6 - Blender 7 - Cinebench R15 8 - Cinebench R20 9 - x265 Benchmark 10 - HEVC 11 - Sony Vegas 12 - Geekbench 13 - Realbench 14 - PCMARK 10 15 - Passmark 9 16 - 3D Mark 17 - Time Spy Extreme 18 - Gaming 19 - CPU Temperatures 20 - Conclusion «Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next»

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