The year is 2062. Flying cars are finally real, true AI has enabled fully automated luxury gay space communism, and AMD announces the 59765X4D for AM4, compatible with 300 series chipset and higher motherboards with a BIOS update.
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Seriously tho, props to AMD for not changing the socket every other proc just for shits and giggles to make line go up. Fucking Intel.
I'd argue not switching sockets constantly actually is probably more profitable for AMD directly. When you switch the socket then upgrades also require customers to purchase new boards. If they can use the same board they have, then they have more money to spend on the CPU upgrade.
You'd think Intel would see it the same way, but no, they've done shit like literally just move a couple pins around to justify a new socket LMAO
As long as the luxury space communism is gay, I'm happy.
man whoever AMD's got cooking in their CPU team needs to be brought to their GPU division
Maybe to their inventory department too, because let's be frank, that's what AMDs downfall really will be. Every product launch for them is now a faux launch, because no one can get their hands on the hardware. It's not quite as bad for the processors, but their GPUs? Forgeddaboutit.
The Ryzen 5 5500X3D's Latin American exclusivity sets it apart from its higher-end counterparts, being the only Ryzen chip exclusive to that geographic area.
Dang.
Weird.
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?
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:
- 9950X3D: 3410
- 9800X3D: 3344
- 9900X3D: 3339
- 7950X3D: 2928
- 7800X3D: 2725
- 5950X: 2211
- 5700X: 2147
- 5800X3D: 2117
- 5700X3D: 1924
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.
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.
Hope my motherboard updates the bios for it.
Oh wait latin america only, owell