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Pemalite said:

Personally I think it's a bit of a mixed bag, but likely down to poor scheduling, single CCD chips seem to fair much better.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/18747/the-amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-review-amd-s-fastest-gaming-processor/8

Right now I personally find the non-3D V-Cache of the 7950X to be the better deal... And once Vcache chips are in the market I hope it pushes those prices down a little more and I will do a full system upgrade to the 7950X.

There's still room for improvement, no doubt about it, but it's a very good first entry in the market of CPUs that need special schedules to work. After all, Intel's first try with its 12th Gen also had some troubles at launch.

It's true that the thermal and voltage restrictions of this extra cache hurt the CCD equipped with it with lower clocks and performance, something that shows more in productivity results. But well, at the end of the day, you either care more about productivity, and go for a 12 or 16-core CPU, you care about gaming, and the upcoming 7800X3D (or the 13600K) should be the best choice, or you want to have the best of both worlds, and that brings you to this one, maybe the 7900X3D, or the 13900K, which is better in some tasks and worse in others, but uses a hell lot more of power.

Captain_Yuri said:

Overall pretty impressive. Personally AMD should get rid of chips like the 7900x/7950x in the future cause those buyers essentially got scammed. For the price you are paying for those class of chips, they should be able to do everything well. Luckily 7950x3d does and thanks to its performance in both gaming and productivity, spending the big bux on AM5 now makes sense.

The i5 13600k remains the midranged king. 7700x is still a pointless cpu. 7800x3d should be gaming king for its price. I'd skip 7900x and 7900x3d entirely. Intel will likely respond with discounts but being limited to a single gen makes their value proposition questionable overall since the performance is so close.

I disagree with you regarding the 7950/7900X. Some users don't use their PCs for gaming but don't have the resources (or the need) to go the extra mile for a Threadripper system. That's where those two CPUs come into play.

By the way, have fun the next weeks!