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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Productivity Benchmarks — The TLDR:
The first slides are simplified without the overclocking configs, while the remainder contains the full roster of tested configurations. We boil productivity application performance down into two broad categories: single- and multi-threaded. These slides show the geometric mean of performance in several of our most important tests in each category, but be sure to look at the individual benchmark results below.
The 3D V-Cache tech delivers explosive performance gains in gaming but also results in lower performance in productivity applications due to power and thermal constraints.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is amazing at gaming, but it struggles elsewhere. For instance, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is most directly comparable to AMD's similar 7700X, but the latter has a 400 MHz higher boost clock than the 7800X3D's 5.0 GHz. As a result, the Ryzen 7 7700X is 7% faster than the 7800X3D in our cumulative measure of threaded applications and 15% faster in single-threaded work.
Of course, the 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X3D easily outmuscles the 7800X3D in productivity work, with 81% faster performance in threaded work and 13% faster performance in single-threaded applications.
The Core i9-13900K also beats the 7800X3D easily: it's 32% faster in single-threaded work and 89% faster in threaded applications, but that isn't too surprising given the $150 chasm between the two chips. The 7800X3D doesn't fare much better against the like-priced $417 Core i7-13700K in productivity apps, either — the 13700K is 22% faster in single-threaded and 51% faster in multi-threaded.
We see some slight gains in threaded work from overclocking the Ryen 7 7800X3D, but the 3% gain won't flip the tables on the other contenders. However, at least the 7800X3D shows a solid generational uplift, with a 26% gain in multi-threaded and a 12% gain in single-threaded performance compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.
Overall, the Ryen 7 7800X3D is exactly what AMD says it is — a highly specialized chip for gaming that won't offer as much performance in standard workloads as the regular Ryzen 7000 processors. Given that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is aimed almost entirely at the gaming market, we'll limit our commentary on the individual results below.
| Tom's Hardware | Multi-Thread | Single-Thread |
| $569 — Ryzen 9 7950X | 100% | 89.7% |
| $589 — Core i9-13900K | 98.6% | 100% |
| $699 — Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 94.7% | 85.5% |
| $430 - Ryzen 9 7900X | 79.5% | 88.5% |
| $409 — Core i7-13700K | 79.1% | 92.7% |
| $599 — Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 74.2% | 82.5% |
| $449 — Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 52.3% | 75.6% |
| $358 — Ryzen 7 5800X3D | 41.5% | 67.2% |
Rendering Benchmarks on AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is significantly slower in heavily-threaded workloads than the Core i7-13700K, an unavoidable byproduct of its lower power and thermal thresholds. That same trend repeats throughout the heavy workloads.
Encoding Benchmarks on AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Most encoders tend to be either heavily threaded or almost exclusively single-threaded — it takes an agile chip to master both disciplines. Handbrake, SVT-HEVC, and SVT-AV1 serve as our threaded encoders, while LAME, FLAC, and WebP are indicative of how the chips handle lightly-threaded engines.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D trails in both the lightly-threaded and heavily-threaded applications, only consistently beating the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.
Adobe, Web Browsing, Office, and Productivity on AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Compilation, Compression, AI Chess Engines, AVX-512 Performance on AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
This selection of tests runs the gamut from the exceedingly branchy code in the LLVM compilation workload to the massively parallel molecular dynamics simulation code in NAMD to encryption and compression/decompression performance.
The demanding Y-cruncher benchmark computes Pi with the AVX instruction set and has optimizations for both Intel and AMD’s architectures. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D again fails to impress in any of these heavy workloads. If you're looking for solid performance in productivity applications, you'll have to look elsewhere.
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