I’m wanting to upgrade this month as I’ve previously posted. I’m going from a 9700k.
Initially I was looking at the 14700k but now I’m considering the AM5 platform.
It’s cheaper, the socket will have a longer lifespan and the 7800X3D is superior in games.
What are people’s thoughts?
I went from a 4670k -> 8500-> 5900X -> 5800X3D. Zen 3 has treated me pretty well aside from some bad RAM. However, if I was building now, I’d probably go Intel. 13700k is cheaper than the 7800X3D in most places. It gets close enough gaming performance while absolutely smoking it in productivity. Not to mention idle wattage is better on Intel, which is great for me since I spend more time working with my system.
Intel is my definitive choice for home servers thanks to quicksync, lower idle wattage, and higher core counts.
Really my best advice is look at any performance data you can find relevant to your uses. If for example you play games where 3D cache doesn’t help for example (because some don’t) or faster memory is a bigger benefit then Intel is the better choice. If you exclusively game and most benefit from 3D cache, 7800X3D is better. If you do more concurrent stuff it’ll depend how deep down the rabbit hole you go and what you want to pay between i7, i9, 7950X, and if you really want to go deep into process affinity or game when not being productive then maybe 7950X3D.
I went AMD after my last 2 builds were Intel specifically because I do stuff with containerization and Intel has been subject to considerably more relevant CVEs than AMD the last several years (and it’s still happening on newer generations, just AMD is also starting to have their own) so I both have security concerns and would be risking notable performance to patches that other people might not need. Plus I also sometimes game while waiting for building/testing so I actually benefit from the weirdness of my 7900X3D , but I also have a decent amount of scheduler tuning and some process affinity presets for other applications that I switch between via shell scripts. I would not recommend doing similar unless you really know what you’re doing.
Only reason I stuck to Intel is I decided to keep my high end DDR4. If I was building a new system with DDR5 right now, I would be getting the 7800X3D.
went 5800x3d after 10th gen…id rather get an i5 over ANYTHING amd, even a 7950x, anything zen5 …
I have a 9900ks but for my current main gaming PC got a 5800x3d.