Ryzen 7 5800X3D - Brilliant MSFS performance

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

The Ryzen 7 5800X3D reviews are out today (release is on 20th April), and perhaps not very surprisingly, Microsoft Flight Simulator benefits a lot from the 96MB L3 cache, more than other games on average. A healthy ~40% performance increase from the standard 5800X, beating even the Core i9-12900KS.

Source: LinusTechTips. AMD systems tested at DDR4-3600, Intel systems at DDR5-5600.

Source: PCWatch. All CPUs tested at DDR4-3200. First three benchmarks at Ultra, last benchmark at Medium.

Edited April 14, 2022 by ChaoticBeauty

[Zangoose 1,631]

Did they test it in 1440p at all? 

[bbsmitz 132]

Wow, if you're CPU bound this looks like a big upgrade.

[Simple B 141]

I need comparison to 5900 and 5950.

If you see any

[omarsmak30 4,068]

Wow! I am very sure my next upgrade will be with team red 😄 

[Amon1973 1,421]

I'd already planned to upgrade my 3800x to the 5800x3d, I was waiting for the reviews with the this cpu, it looks like my mind has just been made up. My rig should be adequate for another 3 plus years of I go ahead and upgrade.

[bbsmitz 132]

31 minutes ago, Simple B said:

I need comparison to 5900 and 5950.

If you see any

Gamers Nexus has a review up.  No MSFS test, but it's a solid improvement over both for a number of demanding games.

https://youtu.be/hBFNoKUHjcg

Edited April 14, 2022 by bbsmitz

[Espana Pete 357]

I have the standard 5800X and it seems to be hardly used at all so what benefit over fitting the standard would anybody running MSFS get by going for the 5800X3D?

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

16 minutes ago, Eammon1973 said:

I'd already planned to upgrade my 3800x to the 5800x3d, I was waiting for the reviews with the this cpu, it looks like my mind has just been made up. My rig should be adequate for another 3 plus years of I go ahead and upgrade.

Good plan. The performance boost from a 3800X should be huge (and that goes for any user on AM4 right now really), and it is possible that in MSFS the 5800X3D will edge out even Zen 4 and Raptor Lake coming later this year (which is kind of alright considering that good DDR5 will remain expensive for quite a while).

1 minute ago, Espana Pete said:

I have the standard 5800X and it seems to be hardly used at all so what benefit over fitting the standard would anybody running MSFS get by going for the 5800X3D?

It will be great for those who are CPU-limited. If you are playing at 4K today you'll be GPU-limited in pretty much every scenario (except for those cases where being on the ground hammers the MainThread terribly), but Lovelace and RDNA 3 will probably change that.

[Espana Pete 357]

3 minutes ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

It will be great for those who are CPU-limited. If you are playing at 4K today you'll be GPU-limited in pretty much every scenario (except for those cases where being on the ground hammers the MainThread terribly), but Lovelace and RDNA 3 will probably change that.

Ah, I had forgotten about 4k which my screen is not capable of.

[nippa 27]

I've been out of Flight Simming for about 3 years now but changed to a new PC with a Ryzen 7 5800x , a decent 12gb Nvidia Graphic Card and 32gb of RAM at the start of the month.

It took a week to get MSFS installed but once I was over the trauma I'm happy to say that Ultra settings are really smooth at normal HD.

Never tried 4K but I'm pleased with my choices so far.

Edited April 14, 2022 by nippa

[bean_sprout 1,201]

1 hour ago, Simple B said:

I need comparison to 5900 and 5950.

If you see any

My 5900X falls asleep when running MSFS. 🙂

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[pstrub 998]

Now this is amazing news! I was hoping for a 12-core 5900X3D to replace my 3900X, but tbh I've rarely made use of the 12 cores I have right now, so I might as well replace it with the 8-core 5800X3D. A simple drop-in replacement, that seems cool to me 😉

40% improvement over the 5800X, which is already 20-25% faster in MSFS than my 3900X, adds up to an incredible ~70% uplift in performance. Seems like that's enough to power even the upcoming generation of GPUs 😁

With my current GPU I won't make full use of this (and I'm quite happy with my 6700XT, especially since I got it at MSRP in August last year), but anyway there are plenty of situations where I run into the CPU limit, and the few occasional annoying stutters are mostly caused by the CPU. 

If it weren't for MSFS, I'd happily keep using my 3900X. It has more than enough power for everyday work, development, gaming - typical CPU bottlenecks are way above 60fps (most of the time like >120fps), and that's good enough given that in my 40s I don't have the reflexes of a 16yo gamer anymore 😉

 

Edited April 14, 2022 by pstrub

[bbsmitz 132]

3 minutes ago, pstrub said:

Now this is amazing news! I was hoping for a 12-core 5900X3D to replace my 3900X, but tbh I've rarely made use of the 12 cores I have right now, so I might as well replace it with the 8-core 5800X3D. A simple drop-in replacement, that seems cool to me 😉

40% improvement over the 5800X, which is already 20-25% faster in MSFS than my 3900X, adds up to an incredible ~70% uplift in performance. Seems like that's enough to power even the upcoming generation of GPUs 😁

With my current GPU I won't make full use of this (and I'm quite happy with my 6700XT, especially since I got it at MSRP in August last year), but anyway there are plenty of situations where I run into the CPU limit, and the few occasional annoying stutters are mostly caused by the CPU. 

If it weren't for MSFS, I'd happily keep using my 3900X. It has more than enough power for everyday work, development, gaming - typical CPU bottlenecks are way above 60fps (most of the time like >120fps), and that's good enough given that in my 40s I don't have the reflexes of a 16yo gamer anymore 😉

 

 

 

 

I honestly think stutters might be where this cpu shines. Things like approaches and taxiing where I feel like the game can become CPU limited could see a big improvement.  Really curious to see what people's experiences will be after it releases.

[Amon1973 1,421]

A quick question for anyone that knows, can you pre-order the 5800x3d anywhere or do we just have to wait until the 20th of April?