Here, the power is cut down dramatically, to a 65W TDP and 88W PPT. Chips like the Ryzen 7 7800X3D not only earned their stripes on the back of exceptional gaming performance, but also high efficiency. Zen 4 overall is very efficient, so although that 65W TDP limits the Ryzen 5 7600X3D in some non-gaming workloads, the extra cache is more than enough to make up for power shortcomings in games.
The biggest victim of lower power is peak clock speed, with the Ryzen 5 7600X3D topping out 600 MHz lower than the base Ryzen 5 7600X. Peak clock speeds aren’t the biggest performance factor in most modern games, which is something we saw on full display with our recent Ryzen 7 9850X3D review .
On the cache front, the 7600X3D packs in 102 MB total. That’s technically lower than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, but not by much. Both chips have the same 96 MB SRAM chunk bonded to the top of the die, giving them both access to the same amount of shared L3 cache. The 2 MB haircut comes from the L2 cache located on the cores.
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ohio_buckeye The article talks about the 7600x3d but another one not to discount is the 7500x3d. Nearly as fast and worth looking at if its significantly less. Reply
usertests ohio_buckeye said: The article talks about the 7600x3d but another one not to discount is the 7500x3d. Nearly as fast and worth looking at if its significantly less. Availability/pricing for the 7500X3D may be bad. For example, I see the 7600X3D for $230 on Amazon via Micro Center, cheaper than the $240 stated. But the 7500X3D is $300 from a different third party seller. Reply
ohio_buckeye In that case for sure the 7600x3d makes sense. However if someone is in the USA near Microcenter, they have a bundle with a 7500x3d, 16gb ram and b850 board for $300 which really is a great deal if you happen to have access to Microcenter. Reply
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