If you have an AMD AM4 machine, there's pretty much only one CPU that's worth considering if you want the best for gaming—the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Except when AMD launched the Ryzen 7 5700X3D back in January of this year, you were suddenly given a tricky choice: do you go all out and get the brilliant but pricey 5800X3D or do you save yourself a fair bit of cash and get the slower 5700X3D. Well, that's precisely the conundrum we're going to solve in this review.
The Ryzen 7 5700X3D is almost exactly the same processor as the 5800X3D, the only difference being that it has lower base and boost clocks. You're still getting eight Zen 3 cores, 16 threads, a TDP of 105 W, and a massive 96 MB of L3 cache. Where the 5800X3D has a base clock of 3.4 GHz and a boost of 4.5 GHz, the 5700X3D knocks those down to 3.0 and 4.1 GHz respectively.
