Ryzen 7 9800X3D remains “insane in a good way” as even the RTX 5090 won’t bottleneck at 1080p
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RTX 5090 reviews have finally gone live, one week ahead of when the GPU will be available to buy worldwide. So far, it’s the Founders Edition card that has been critiqued, while the AIBs will soon follow. Anyone looking to build the highest of high-end gaming systems is probably going to pair the 5090 with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, today’s best gaming CPU. Well, you’ll be glad to hear that these two components go hand in hand.
AMD’s Ryzen 9800X3D and Nvidia’s GeForce 5090 look to be a match made in heaven, albeit from two rival companies. New benchmarks show that despite pushing a massive amount of frames, the RTX 5090 doesn’t bottleneck the 9800X3D at 1080p. Now, with these two components at your rig, it’s overkill to game at 1080p, but it’s an interesting revelation regardless.
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- Cores: 8
- Threads: 16
- Boost clock speed: 5.2GHz
- Base clock speed: 4.7GHz
- L3 cache: 96MB
- TDP: 120W
- Platform: AM5
9800X3D isn’t bottlenecked at 1080p with the RTX 5090 in some games
One of the most popular hardware reviewers on the web is Gamers Nexus, and their RTX 5090 review reveals all you need to know about the new flagship GPU, with a healthy amount of benchmarks to dive into. What interests us in particular though is how well the 5090 performs with the latest Ryzen 7 X3D chip.
“An additional storyline to this review which is that the 9800X3D remains a completely insane (in a good way) CPU. It can keep up even at 1080p in situations with the 5090”
Gamers Nexus
Taking FFXIV as an example running at 1080p at maximum settings, the RTX 5090 FE still offers around an 8% performance uplift compared to the 4090 (407.1 FPS versus 375.6 FPS), meaning the 9800X3D manages to keep up and not be massively bottlenecked despite running at a resolution which is well below the 5090’s paygrade. With many other CPUs, the pressure of running at a lower resolution – therefore restricting the amount of work the GPU has to do – puts all of the stress on the processor, resulting in poor performance gains and little-to-no uplift over weaker graphics cards.
In games such as Black Myth: Wukong which are much more GPU-bound, there is a 19.7% uplift when comparing the 5090 and 4090 paired with the 9800X3D chip, again proving that the gaming powerhouse processor does enough to keep up with the demand at 1080p. To reiterate, there’s not much reason to buy this kind of hardware if you’re only playing at 1080p, but it’s nice to see just how good the 9800X3D is – yet another reason why it continues to sell in the thousands.