Ok... let me tell you how cpu intensive this game is

[hzh]

I recently upgraded my gpu from 2070 super to Asus 4070 ti super OC and to 32g ram just to play this game and cyberpunk smoothly. I had an old 8th gen intel gpu from years ago, but in cyberpunk there was noticable performance increase even with patch tracing.

Then stalker 2... god. It was everywhere... 80fps on sec, then 15fps the next, then 10fps when you see the first town... completely unplayable. I thought to myself, this can't be the GPU anymore, so I check in game with afterburner, and i felt it's cpu bottlenecking.

So, I got a new motherboard with Ryzen 7 5700x3d (best value)... Man, what night and day difference. I'm enjoying stalker 2 at max at 2k. very stable and consistent fps at 60 without DLSS, without Frame Generation. It really made me think, I probably should have jumped on the Ryzen 7 9800x3d to future proof the next 3 years.

So, if you have the money. I think the 9800x3d might really worth it (na, no one sponsored me). Because I kinda regret the decision to save that few hundred dollars. that 9800 should be even more a monster to test out....

[Essedus]

I have an old ryzen 7 2700. I've come to call my video card "Atlas", because it may as well be carrying the world on its back. The 9800x3d is actually what I'm getting next time they become available from a vendor that doesn't look shady.

[hzh]

Originally posted by Essedus:

I have an old ryzen 7 2700. I've come to call my video card "Atlas", because it may as well be carrying the world on its back. The 9800x3d is actually what I'm getting next time they become available from a vendor that doesn't look shady.

From what i see, the 9800x3d has almost 60% gain over my 5700x3d (which is already very good for gaming and handles everything ultra smooth)

If i can redo it, i would gladly pay another $300 cad for the 9800x3d. I say go for it if you plan to pair it with a rtx 4000 series or the next gen 5000 series gpu