What is a good CPU to go with the 5080?

[Clumsybeast]

It doesn’t need to be the best cpu, just good enough to not bottleneck it, and play games well.

[Corona Scurrae]

13600k

[_I_]

depends
low res high fps = fastest cpu you can get
high res = any cpu

[Clumsybeast]

Originally posted by _I_:

depends
low res high fps = fastest cpu you can get
high res = any cpu

1440p

[Corona Scurrae]

Originally posted by Clumsybeast:

Originally posted by _I_:

depends
low res high fps = fastest cpu you can get
high res = any cpu

1440p

13600k

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 9800X3D or if it`s too expensive 7700X, 9700X.
Would avoid 13th gen Intel like a plague with all their issues. 12th gen is ok and 14th gen should be mostly patched.

[Jatimu]

Originally posted by Yhorm:

Originally posted by Clumsybeast:

1440p

13600k

thats a really old cpu, why would you even suggest it?

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 9800X3D or if it`s too expensive 7700X, 9700X.
Would avoid 13th gen Intel like a plague with all their issues. 12th gen is ok and 14th gen should be mostly patched.

I'd also recommend the 9800x3d or something more on the high end side, so you don't botttleneck your gpu, just dont go with the 200 series from intel as it is much worse than the current amd chips.

[r.linder]

Would ideally be best paired with an i9-14900K or i7-14700K as those are realistically the best gaming CPUs overall -- when you actually look into benchmarks deeper than just FPS averages and pay close attention to lows and how often AMD CPUs experience harsh dips in comparison to competing Intel CPUs.

There's good reason why competitive gamers and cafes still use Intel, it's more consistent and stable.

[Carlsberg]

Originally posted by r.linder:

Would ideally be best paired with an i9-14900K or i7-14700K as those are realistically the best gaming CPUs overall -- when you actually look into benchmarks deeper than just FPS averages and pay close attention to lows and how often AMD CPUs experience harsh dips in comparison to competing Intel CPUs.

There's good reason why competitive gamers and cafes still use Intel, it's more consistent and stable.

Currently, the 9800X3D is the best on the market, Intel has no equivalent.

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

Originally posted by r.linder:

Would ideally be best paired with an i9-14900K or i7-14700K as those are realistically the best gaming CPUs overall -- when you actually look into benchmarks deeper than just FPS averages and pay close attention to lows and how often AMD CPUs experience harsh dips in comparison to competing Intel CPUs.

There's good reason why competitive gamers and cafes still use Intel, it's more consistent and stable.

Currently, the 9800X3D is the best on the market, Intel has no equivalent.

There's more to gaming performance than average FPS, the 9800X3D has larger performance dips (1% and 0.1%) from average FPS than the 14900K, which when overclocked alongside RAM can easily close the gap and beat it.

Competitive gamers and gaming cafes switched back to Intel because AMD has disappointed them consistently with how inconsistent and unstable their chips are in terms of actual performance.

So you're just spouting whatever YouTubers are telling you without understanding any of it, and bar graphs don't show you how often AMD has frame drops in comparison to Intel.

[Carlsberg]

Originally posted by r.linder:

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

Currently, the 9800X3D is the best on the market, Intel has no equivalent.

There's more to gaming performance than average FPS, the 9800X3D has larger performance dips (1% and 0.1%) from average FPS than the 14900K, which when overclocked alongside RAM can easily close the gap and beat it.

Competitive gamers and gaming cafes switched back to Intel because AMD has disappointed them consistently with how inconsistent and unstable their chips are in terms of actual performance.

So you're just spouting whatever YouTubers are telling you without understanding any of it, and bar graphs don't show you how often AMD has frame drops in comparison to Intel.

I won't dispute what you say but accordingly reviews are saying its exceptional despite the issues asrock, msi and some other mainboards have had. Intel, well,.. they have a well earned reputation for reliability especially in the business world and they will not want to lose that.

PS; just for the record, I have NEVER taken any youtuber bs for a reference.

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

Originally posted by r.linder:

There's more to gaming performance than average FPS, the 9800X3D has larger performance dips (1% and 0.1%) from average FPS than the 14900K, which when overclocked alongside RAM can easily close the gap and beat it.

Competitive gamers and gaming cafes switched back to Intel because AMD has disappointed them consistently with how inconsistent and unstable their chips are in terms of actual performance.

So you're just spouting whatever YouTubers are telling you without understanding any of it, and bar graphs don't show you how often AMD has frame drops in comparison to Intel.

I won't dispute what you say but accordingly reviews are saying its exceptional despite the issues asrock, msi and some other mainboards have had. Intel, well,.. they have a well earned reputation for reliability especially in the business world and they will not want to lose that.

PS; just for the record, I have NEVER taken any youtuber bs for a reference.

Reviewers are being biased as usual, if they were actually good at what they do then they'd actually test and report things properly.

[ugafan]

Frame Chases has been highly critical of the "AMD dip". Here is a link to his video on the 9800x3D.

YouTube™ Video: 🛑 9800X3D vs 6GHZ 14900KS MAX OC BENCHMARKS 😱👑 

Views: 44,401

►►►► https://framechasers.org/education/ ►►►► - PC OPTIMIZATION COURSE 9800x3d Amazon - https://amzn.to/3ClCWaM 9800x3d Newegg - https://howl.link/xwj970ha773ov 14900K Amazon -...

His conclusion is basically:
For the mainstream consumer who wants plug and play: 9800x3D
For the max tuner who is going to tinker around for a month: 14900KS

So even though he has problems with AMD, he still recommends the 9800x3D for people who aren't going to spend lots of time tuning.

[hawkeye]

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

Originally posted by r.linder:

There's more to gaming performance than average FPS, the 9800X3D has larger performance dips (1% and 0.1%) from average FPS than the 14900K, which when overclocked alongside RAM can easily close the gap and beat it.

Competitive gamers and gaming cafes switched back to Intel because AMD has disappointed them consistently with how inconsistent and unstable their chips are in terms of actual performance.

So you're just spouting whatever YouTubers are telling you without understanding any of it, and bar graphs don't show you how often AMD has frame drops in comparison to Intel.

I won't dispute what you say but accordingly reviews are saying its exceptional despite the issues asrock, msi and some other mainboards have had. Intel, well,.. they have a well earned reputation for reliability especially in the business world and they will not want to lose that.

PS; just for the record, I have NEVER taken any youtuber bs for a reference.

Regarding the "reputation for reliability especially in the business world" comment, just the way that you write indicates that you don't really know anything about professional IT. I've never heard anyone use the term "business world". Plus I have never heard anyone talk about reliability.either. hat is just mumbo-jumbo.

And here is the big one - in the "business world" as you call it, no-one uses windows except on end-user laptops etc. And then the hardware is always SOE and is a low-end cpu for "global warming" reasons.

The discussion here is about gaming pc's, which has nothing to do with what happens in professional computing. Different cpu families, different hardware architecture, systems usually I/O bound etc.

And has been stated above, fps is used in gaming reviews as it is simple enough for the average gamer to understand.

I know a few popular youtuber reviewers. In the their real jobs they are school teachers. The information they provide is useful and usually reliable but none is applicable to corporate systems.

[A&A]

Certainly the biggest bottleneck with Ryzens is the infinite fabric, but that doesn't mean they're bad processors.

6-8 core CPUs right now (doesn't apply to Intel 200 lol) or a previous generation or two are still doing fine.

The 12th generation intel is dirt cheap and considering the 13th and 14th are the same as the 12th but with additional cache and e cores and there is speculation about Bartlett Lake, it doesn't seem bad.

Ryzen 7000 is not bad either.

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by Clumsybeast:

It doesn’t need to be the best cpu, just good enough to not bottleneck it, and play games well.

You can't avoid bottlenecks. They are a fact of PCs.

That being said, the answer to your question is pretty much the same it always is; buy the best option that fits within your budget at the moment. So what's your budget?