The former will be noticeable for titles that favor more cores and threads, especially as the Ryzen 9 9900X3D will have 12 cores while the Ryzen 9 9950X3D will have a whopping 16 cores versus the Ryzen 7 9800X3D’s eight cores. However, it’s a rare case since not many games utilize more than eight cores. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D still has the upper hand in games that favor eight cores since everything is done on a single CCD.
I mean…
For the 16 core a CCD could be disabled for gaming.
But also games using 8 cores is new, it’s not a real limit. It used to be 2 and before that it was 1. Game developers didn’t start taking advantage of 8 cores till people had them.
So today the performance is the same. But that could change very quickly.
That being said, it’s not like people have gpus that are bottlenecking a 9800x3d anyways.
It’s a multipurpose CPU, for sure. I have the 7950X3D/7900XTX and could disable a CCD for gaming, but it’s not worth my time. I might game but then switch to CPU heavy work a couple times a day. Unless a new game comes out that really needs to push the GPU and needs x number of cores, I won’t change system configs because I am lazy.
I recently upgraded to the X870E and any bottlenecks that I had before are just gone and with that, any incentive to switch CPU modes. (The bottlenecks were replaced with memory tuning bugs during boot, but that is another story.)
I mean…
For the 16 core a CCD could be disabled for gaming.
But also games using 8 cores is new, it’s not a real limit. It used to be 2 and before that it was 1. Game developers didn’t start taking advantage of 8 cores till people had them.
So today the performance is the same. But that could change very quickly.
That being said, it’s not like people have gpus that are bottlenecking a 9800x3d anyways.
It’s a multipurpose CPU, for sure. I have the 7950X3D/7900XTX and could disable a CCD for gaming, but it’s not worth my time. I might game but then switch to CPU heavy work a couple times a day. Unless a new game comes out that really needs to push the GPU and needs x number of cores, I won’t change system configs because I am lazy.
I recently upgraded to the X870E and any bottlenecks that I had before are just gone and with that, any incentive to switch CPU modes. (The bottlenecks were replaced with memory tuning bugs during boot, but that is another story.)