AMD Hits Hard: Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU Review & Benchmarks vs. i9-12900KS

AMD’s R7 5800X3D debuts 3D V-Cache. This review and benchmark of the Ryzen 5800X3D tests it vs. the Intel i9-12900KS & 12900K, AMD R7 5800X, and more CPUs. Sponsor: Buy Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut paste on Amazon () or Hydronaut paste for water cooling (Amazon - ) The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D primarily focuses its marketing on gaming advancements, which is because the additional L3 Cache layer on the X3D will mostly be visible in gaming scenarios. Impact to certain production applications, like rendering in Cycles (Blender) or Adobe Premiere, will be limited more by frequency and core count than by cache. That said, gaming often benefits from extra cache, and we see that here. The R7 5800X3D puts the brand new Intel i9-12900KS to shame for value, and although the 5800X3D can’t be overclocked, it also doesn’t really need it. Memory tuning is still available, as is Infinity Fabric tuning, and that’s more important for AMD anyway. Our GN Tear-Down Toolkit