Currently on a i9-10850K - which of the three would be recommended from the title and why please?

Unless you can get the 7800X3D cheap, used or something, I wouldn't consider it as it's not being produced any more and retail price is still quite high.

If MSFS is your primary simulator, it'd be silly to go Intel, as it's just slower for the job, runs hotter and comes in the wake of a lot of Intel issues. The 9800X3D is easier to cool, i.e cheaper cooling solutions and you get better performance, smoother experience thanks to better 1% and 0.1% lows.

13 minutes ago, Sethos said:

Unless you can get the 7800X3D cheap, used or something, I wouldn't consider it as it's not being produced any more and retail price is still quite high.

If MSFS is your primary simulator, it'd be silly to go Intel, as it's just slower for the job, runs hotter and comes in the wake of a lot of Intel issues. The 9800X3D is easier to cool, i.e cheaper cooling solutions and you get better performance, smoother experience thanks to better 1% and 0.1% lows.

Only 8 cores though, any benefit in waiting for the 9950X3D with twice as many do you think?

On the fence with AMD as haven't built a system using their stuff for decades...

7 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

Only 8 cores though, any benefit in waiting for the 9950X3D with twice as many do you think?

On the fence with AMD as haven't built a system using their stuff for decades...

Really depends on your usage. If you just sim, use the computer for daily tasks; emails, browsing and other light work, an 8 core is more than plenty. If you are heavy into editing, rendering, transcoding, 3D work and the likes, there's a case to be made for the later releases with more cores. Rumor is also the 9950X3D will have the 3D cache available to all cores, so no more of that faffing about like the 7900X3D and 7950X3D, getting the sim to run on the cores with 3D cache.

I had the 7800X3D and getting the 9800X3D, I'm a heavy computer user and 8 core / 16 threads has been plenty for all my work.

Edited November 11, 20241 yr by Sethos

iam running the 9900x at 4k , love it , very fast and lots of cores 

On 11/11/2024 at 6:36 AM, kevinfirth said:

Currently on a i9-10850K - which of the three would be recommended from the title and why please?

Right now, this day, this instant, 9800X3D without question or peer if you primarily use MSFS.  If you don't run MSFS then the picture becomes a bit murkier.

About the core thing, as was said you could wait a bit for the other 9xxxx3D processors to come out.  While MSFS2024 promises to have better core usage, I suspect that there will still be one or two cores that do most of the work, just a little less work than before.  I expect evolution not revolution when it comes to multicore.  If I end up being wrong that would be wonderful.  

You're not alone in only building Intel.  My current sim rig is only the third AMD machine I've built since 1992.
386DX/40 (I built a couple of those)
FX57  (great single core machine)
7800X3D
Those are the three AMD systems I've built.  If I can do it, I know you can Kevin lol.

Hi Kevin
Its no brainer the 9800X3D or wait for 9950X3D
iam extremly pleased with the 9800X3D think its back to the realease of the Intel 4770 2013 i see someting like this.
suspect that the 9800X3D would be perfect , would be cracy by MS to but the Xbox under the bus it have 8 cores.

4 months ago I had upgraded to 14900K. No problems, working fine.