This article comes at an interesting time for me. Today I was considering, and window shopping for an AM5 MB to replace my B450 tomahawk which is a AM4. The main reason is to upgrade my Ryzen 5 3600 to something more powerful. How does this CPU compare to the 9/8/7000X3Ds that need the AM5 socket?
If you could happen to fall into a 5800x or a 5800x3d for a decent price (getting harder to find I’m sure), I’d skip the upgrades and AM5. It doesn’t look like it’s going to go the distance like AM4 did, there’s already AM6 talk going on for 2027. There’s very little real world actual advantage to AM5 vs 4, it’s just largely more anti-consumer behaviour and marketing from PC chipmakers.
Analysis based on GN benchmarks
It appears to basically be a downclocked 5600X3D, so the 5500X3D will definitely fall short of the performance of AM5 X3D CPUs, given that the weakest of that bunch, the 7600X3D, outperforms the 5600X3D from 3-12% in gaming and 12-24% in productivity.
The amount of downclocking is pretty similar to that of the 5700X3D vs the 5800X3D, so if the 5500X3D is similarly affected compared to the 5600X3D, it would be expected to be anywhere from 6-11% worse in gaming and 4-8% worse in productivity.
So then, using the averages of those ranges, the 7600X3D would outperform our assumed 5500X3D on average by about 16.6% in gaming and 25% in productivity. Beyond that you’ve also got the 7800X3D and 9800X3D which would further improve performance (or the Ryzen 9 X3D chips but those aren’t as popular).
While pricing seems unknown for now, I think if you’re determined to remain on AM4, I would just spend the extra for a 5700X3D, especially if you can find it on a sale, and get the most out of that AM4 that you can now for the rest of its life. But if you can budget a full platform upgrade with new mobo and DDR5 RAM, the 7800X3D seems to be coming back down in price, although not quite as cheap as it was Q4 2023 up to mid 2024.
Note that these results are aggregated from people with this hardware running Geekbench on their own machines and the rest of their hardware and config (including, for example, cooling, overclocking) isn’t controlled for, and as such is very likely to be different, which would impact results.
This article comes at an interesting time for me. Today I was considering, and window shopping for an AM5 MB to replace my B450 tomahawk which is a AM4. The main reason is to upgrade my Ryzen 5 3600 to something more powerful. How does this CPU compare to the 9/8/7000X3Ds that need the AM5 socket?
If you could happen to fall into a 5800x or a 5800x3d for a decent price (getting harder to find I’m sure), I’d skip the upgrades and AM5. It doesn’t look like it’s going to go the distance like AM4 did, there’s already AM6 talk going on for 2027. There’s very little real world actual advantage to AM5 vs 4, it’s just largely more anti-consumer behaviour and marketing from PC chipmakers.
Analysis based on GN benchmarks
It appears to basically be a downclocked 5600X3D, so the 5500X3D will definitely fall short of the performance of AM5 X3D CPUs, given that the weakest of that bunch, the 7600X3D, outperforms the 5600X3D from 3-12% in gaming and 12-24% in productivity.
The amount of downclocking is pretty similar to that of the 5700X3D vs the 5800X3D, so if the 5500X3D is similarly affected compared to the 5600X3D, it would be expected to be anywhere from 6-11% worse in gaming and 4-8% worse in productivity.
So then, using the averages of those ranges, the 7600X3D would outperform our assumed 5500X3D on average by about 16.6% in gaming and 25% in productivity. Beyond that you’ve also got the 7800X3D and 9800X3D which would further improve performance (or the Ryzen 9 X3D chips but those aren’t as popular).
While pricing seems unknown for now, I think if you’re determined to remain on AM4, I would just spend the extra for a 5700X3D, especially if you can find it on a sale, and get the most out of that AM4 that you can now for the rest of its life. But if you can budget a full platform upgrade with new mobo and DDR5 RAM, the 7800X3D seems to be coming back down in price, although not quite as cheap as it was Q4 2023 up to mid 2024.
I’d expect performance under the 5600X3D, which at https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks got a score of 2085. For reference:
Note that these results are aggregated from people with this hardware running Geekbench on their own machines and the rest of their hardware and config (including, for example, cooling, overclocking) isn’t controlled for, and as such is very likely to be different, which would impact results.
Youre gonna have to wait for benchmarks. Better yet, get one and benchmark it for everyone. Be the change you want to see in the world.