everyone talks about how great AMD CPUs
are but according to the steam Hardware survey Intel is still the one holding
the bulk of the ground in the CPU War but if you talk to any Enthusiast
they'll gush on and on about how much they love AMD CPUs so just what in the
ever Goblin parting is everyone actually
buying on Amazon right now oh it is AMD
it's all AMD with even two generation
old ryzen chips pitching in to kick Intel completely out of the top 10 list
and 3D vcash taking every spot on the
podium which wait speaking of two
generation old chips now am4 is on top again with all the holiday sales going
on right now the only constant is Intel's complete absence at the top of
the sales charts with only their older generation selling at all meaning that
the steam Hardware survey is based on anci sales and things are shifting Big
Time yikes so let's break down the chips y'all are buying and talk about why and
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when we first sat down to look at CPU sales Trends the 9800 x3d was
comfortably in first place thanks to the Feeding Frenzy that took place after
what was arguably the most exciting gaming CPU launch in the last 2 and 1/2
years but now it's completely out of
stock and it's being scalped hard even on non-auction sites like Amazon making
matters worse the word on the street is that a significant restock of this thing
isn't expected until January so for
anyone who was hoping to put the atomic number 14 under the Christmas tree this
year that ain't going to cut it so how's
option two looking here actually not too bad after all the 7800 x3d was in first
place for quite a while before the new hotness came along and it's pretty
similar to the new one both of them feature eight full fat cores and 16
threads 96 MB of level three cache it's
just that the newer 9800 X3 runs faster
in its base and boost clocks and has some generational IPC uplift thanks to
Zen 5 processing it is also overclockable but let's be real it's not
like the old hat was so slow that you needed to overclock It Anyway the 7800
x3d is not just pretty fast though it is
straight up the best rated item that we have ever featured in this series with
an absolutely unbelievable 4.9 Stars
sure that is based on fewer ratings than the Beloved 3600 non X that we featured
last time around but it's also got a lot more competition from other gaming chips
like the 5700 x3d which is here in third spot we'll talk about that later though
because right now I want to know what a one-star review even looks like when it
only makes up about 2% of the overall reviews let's see Billy had memory
controller issues that's no good Ben hated Amazon's customer service a few
people had their chips die pun intended anywhere from a few weeks to a few
months after purchase there's the odd product missing scam and then multiple
others were upset that they didn't get a Jedi Survivor or avatar game code along
with their product so wow even the
people who were pissed about this thing were mostly pretty happy with the actual
processor as for the overwhelmingly good reviews it's basically an endlessly
scrolling page of titles like amazing CPU best gaming CPU on the market and
huge upgrade our own review when it came out boiled down to yeah it's the best
gaming CPU on the market it's just that it's kind of expensive and unfortunately
it still is even though it's been replaced in AMD's product lineup see
here's the thing most of the time when the new generation comes out the last
generation goes on sale but the 7800 x3d
is still selling for $480 about $30 over MSRP which has AMD
kind of looking like that smug Facebook Market Marketplace seller saying no low
balls I know what I've got and the unfortunate part is AMD is not wrong
when we tested the 9800 X 3D more recently it clearly beat its predecessor
which has contributed to its gangbuster sales but the thing is it didn't beat it
by as much as some people hoped at least outside of extreme examples like rocket
league and Stellaris and the reality is
unless you are competitively gaming at 1080P and you need a chip that does well
enough and productivity there are other cheaper options remember that 5700x 3D
that I mentioned earlier it goes for as little as
$200 that is less than half of what you'll pay for an am5 x3d chip I mean
sure am4 is a dead platform but it's
also a significantly cheaper platform especially if you're willing to pick up
some used parts like a motherboard and ddr4 memory in fact you could build most
of your new to you PC for about the
price of just one of our best-selling chips which frees up more of your budget
for what really matters for a gaming PC the
GPU as we saw during our review of the 9800 x3d even with the fastest GPU on
the market for now anyway once you go past 1080p the bottleneck swings hard
toward the GPU and the affordability of good 1440p gaming monitors and 4K 120 HZ
TVs has never been better so if you want a great gaming experience today day
without wasting a dollar am4 plus a
better display is kind of still my go-to but if you want to be able to
upgrade your system without doing a complete rebuild entrylevel am5 has some
standout deals right now as well with a ryzen 7 7700x going for just
$267 at the time of filming that's still
an 8 core 16 thread processor but at
only a little over half the price of the 7800 X3 D you are going to give up some
gaming performance even at higher resolutions and settings but assuming
let's say 1,000 budget that gives you
over $200 extra to throw at your GPU or
spend on a nicer monitor or hey maybe a desk upgrade like this Northern Lights
desk pad from LTD store.com now so far most of this wasn't much of a surprise
lots of people want the best of the best
and for everyone else bang for the buck chips well those are a great choice too
but something that did surprise me was just how different the sales mix looks
between AMD's X CPUs and they're more
budget friendly non-x CPUs as I
mentioned before the last time we did this the chip we featured was the ryzen
5 3600 to date that has over
43,000 ratings while the 3600 x has
barely over 12,000 to be clear 12,000
ratings that's a lot they were both great chips but AMD had a big problem
when it came to selling the X it was $50
more for a performance difference that ended up being mostly theoretical Now
Intel solved this problem within their lineup by artificially limiting
overclocking and boost speeds on their nonk CPUs but AMD at least at the time
took a more consumer friendly approach and left their entire lineup
unlocked well seems like AMD may have
learned learned a lesson from all of that because now a few Generations later
non-x versions just aren't available
alongside their x-r Partners at launch instead AMD launches the beefy version
with full Fanfare then quietly releases
the exess variant later how much later
well seems like that depends when am5 debuted eager customers were stuck
waiting months if they wanted to save a buck on a slightly slower 7,000 series
and as for 9,000 it'll be December by the time this video
goes live and we haven't seen so much as a rumored release date for non-x 9000
variants I guess that's what happens when the closest thing to a competing
product from Intel is a CPU that used to be a lake before it took something to
the knee um what was it something it was
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