[necessary]

I don't know about anyone else but I've been patiently waiting for the Ryzen 9 7950X3D since the 5800X3D came out. The gaming performance on that chip was so good that it was competitive with more expensive chips at the time, despite being slower for productivity workloads. My 4790k is starting to show it's age when playing games like Rimworld and Elden Ring.

[shmerl]

I'm waiting for benchmarks. So far I'm not convinced 7950X3D will be better than 7950X, especially since there is no way scheduler will be able tell whether some thread benefits from more cache or from higher clocks, unless someone develops a very sophisticated one with AI like training capabilities? I haven't seen any kind of efforts of that sort (I'm gaming on Linux).

[chucky_z]

Look at 5800X vs 5800X3D.

[shmerl]

Pretty marginal benefits for many workloads. And it's not directly comparable, because 5800X3D provides more cache for all cores. 7950X3D provides more cache only for half the cores. That creates a weird hybrid CPU. Half the cores have higher clocks and less cache, and half the cores have lower clocks and more cache.

Your threads will be scheduled all over the place pretty randomly. So I'm not yet convinced it's going to be better than stock 7950X with higher clocks across the board. Actual benchmarks will tell.

[schemescape]

I’m surprised to see Rimworld and Elden Ring lumped together. I thought Rimworld was a nicer looking Dwarf Fortress.

Is the simulation just extremely CPU-intensive?

[Narishma]

It's just poorly coded and doesn't take advantage of the CPU power on hand. A lot of games are like that, both indie and AAA.

[Der_Einzige]

Poorly coded? RimWorld handles hundreds of mods mostly gracefully. Combine it with rimpy GPU compiling textures and you shouldn't have fps issues unless your computer is a potato or you have tons of VRAM heavy mods.

[ozarker]

Yeah it’s notoriously cpu bottlenecked and doesn’t do much multithreading