
- Very high gaming performance
- high application performance
- comparatively efficient
- AM4 platform offers hardly any upgrade options
- Quite high temperature under full application load (approx. 90 degrees; does not apply to games)
I have to admit that at first glance it would feel strange for me to buy a new CPU for a platform that (almost) no longer offers the possibility of upgrading. However, gaming reality catches up with me very quickly in our test of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Not only does the Ryzen 7 5800X3D come very close to the current top processors, but it does so in a comparatively cheap and efficient way...