Been trying to wait out 9950's due to higher potential clock speeds but they're still not in stock and 9800's are finally back.  Anyone have any thoughts on these for MSFS 2024?  My current 5950x the sim uses quite a bit of the cores especially with utilities like Navigraph, GSX, BATC etc running and I'm doing the occasional streaming to friends though that uses the GPU codecs the way I have it set up. I did test my 5950X with a CCD disabled and there wasn't a noticeable fps change, but I'm just being careful in my choice I guess.  I guess if I really was using enough cores that might be bad with a 9950 since it might pull the 2nd CCD out of core parking and cause some worse performance? I know I could always just disable the CCD to force it to make everything run on the one but who wants to do that before every sim session lol.  I did find a review of the 9950x3d on Tomshardware that actually had benchmarks for both 2020 and 2024 at 1080p/low to force max cpu use and the 1% and max fps were a solid 8fps higher on the 9950, but I'm sure once that gets scaled up to 1440p ultrawide and high/ultra that gap will probably vanish.  Just trying to sanity check that I'd be ok on a 9800 I guess.  I bought the 5950 intending to do some home video editing and some other stuff but I've never really actively done anything like that yet so it's just the random game that will make use of the extra amount of cores.

I have the 9800x3d.It works fine There's no perfect answer. Some suggestions that there is less faffing around with setting core affinities with the 9800.YMMV.At the end of the day the sim is still to be optimised.Go with what you can afford/need