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Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Yea that's true but it is a really good all around CPU if you don't want to break the bank but still get all around great performance. The 5800X3D is still the best bang per buck considering both 7000 series and Raptor Lake are expensive and aren't worth it imo outside of workstation performance. But if someone does want a budget upgrade that they want to keep for a long time, a cheap z690 that's on sale + 13600k would do wonders.

Just saw the 5800X3D on that power consumption chart compared to the latest and lmao, this makes for such an easy choice for me at this point. 

For gaming, I fully agree. Nothing beats the X3D in value and power draw so far.

I'll have to do some code compiling in the future, so I'll need something with more performance. Even just the 7700X is about 35% faster than the 5800X/5800X3D in compilation without breaking the bank, though I'll wait to see when the Zen 4 X3D models will come. Rumor has it that they will come early next year, and I can wait until then to see how they behave in gaming (compilation will probably not be affected at all, the scores for the 5800X and 5800X3D are virtually the same) and then run a 77007900/7950 X3D (depending on my financial situation by then) in ECO mode if they're not too expensive for me.

13900K is not an option for me btw. While the performance is great, the power draw is way too high. I'd love to see how well it performs if limited to it's nominal TDP of 125W, though, so maybe if the performance drop ain't too bad it could be a possibility. But with how much it pulls at stock, I don't have my hopes high on this one.