Final Thoughts
Another Ryzen 5000 processor review and another processor I can easily recommend to someone. The big thing with AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series is that they really worked to improve single-core and gaming performance. AMD always seemed to trail behind, especially in gaming performance. That is why many people who are mainly interested in gaming would go Intel in the past. Intel processors always had better gaming performance and that was pretty known around the industry. With the 5000 series AMD really worked on that and you really have a choice now. Both competing AMD and Intel processors will perform around the same in gaming tests obviously trading blows in games they are more optimized for. But at least for now is we are no longer saying “If you are just gaming go Intel”.
Another thing to consider if you are pondering between AMD or Intel is platform. Right now AMD’s X570 and B550 platforms are superior than Intel’s Z490 simply because Z490 does not offer PCI-Express 4.0. PCI-Express 4.0 enables super-fast Gen4 NVMe storage which will dramatically cut down start-up times as well as game loading times.
The Ryzen 7 5800X is a 8-core, 16-thread part which does make it a great part for those who are gaming, but might be doing other things as well. Say you are recording your gameplay, streaming, or creating videos from your gameplay those extra cores will definitely come in handy. Especially when compared to AMD’s $299 6-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 5600X. Many people have praised the Ryzen 5 5600X (including myself), but if I am doing any type of content creating I definitely want more cores. Also having more cores sort of future-proofs your system in a way.
Sadly we did not have a Core i7-10700K to directly compare the Ryzen 7 5800X to, but from what I’ve seen it beats it. In our own testing we saw performance quite close to the Core i9-10900K, which is really impressive. Again we also did not have a Ryzen 3 3800X to directly compare, but we can assume we get a nice boost in performance, especially gaming performance. With the 5600X we saw up to an 18% performance increase in gaming, just by slotting the new processor. So just imagine the gaming performance say going for a Ryzen 7 2700X to a Ryzen 7 5800X!
When it comes to overclocking we were about to get the Ryzen 7 5800X running at 4.7 GHz across all eight cores with a Vcore of 1.35V. This will give a very nice boost in performance, although your single-core performance will likely take a hit. Overall I’ve found that I’ve been able to push these chips a little further than what I was able to do with the 3000 series. The Ryzen Master software also makes it quite easy to do all of your overclocking within Windows.
The only real thing I can say bad about the Ryzen 7 5800X is that it does not come with a CPU cooler. I was a fan of the Wraith Prism CPU cooler as a great starter CPU cooler, it even had RGB! It gave builders something to start with and upgrade later on. Sadly only the Ryzen 5 5600X comes with a CPU Cooler (Wraith Spire).
It seems like all new products coming out right now are hard to find and that is the case with the Ryzen 7 5800X. I cannot find it for sale anywhere (Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, etc). Which is really disappointing as again this is a great processor we can totally recommend for $449.99.
Pros:
– Great improvement in single-core and gaming performance
– Still on the AM4 socket
– Only platform with PCI-Express 4.0 (currently)
– Easy to overclock with AMD’s Ryzen Master software
Cons:
– No CPU cooler included this time
– Availability
