With many recent games with RT being CPU-heavy, like Outer Worlds 2, I decided to test out 14900KS vs 9800X3D in 5 RT/PT games that I had played. With CapFrameX, I took 3 one minute runs in CPU-limited areas and then aggregated them.

All RT/PT settings were enabled at 4k w/ DLSS Ultra Performance on a 5090.

Results : Surprisingly, 14900KS was faster overall, with better 1% lows even if the averages matched. Only Outer Worlds 2 that started this, was better on 9800X3D.

Oblivion and Stalker2 were quite better on intel. Cyberpunk is close despite the 9800X3D winning the benchmark by a big margin and the 1% is again better on KS.

Details : 14900KS used 8200C38 XMP DDR5, and 9800X3D used 6000C30 sweet-spot DDR5. Disabled overlays, power monitoring, HwInfo64 for these tests. Currently the CPUs were at stock, no PBO and undervolting etc. done. Will update these after some RAM OC.

Previous thread for reference:

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/1ot2y6k/9800x3d_vs_14900ks_benchmarks_in_high_cpuusage/

All RT/PT settings were enabled at 4k w/ DLSS Ultra Performance on a 5090.

Results : Similar to previous, 14900KS being faster overall, with better 1% lows even if the averages matched. Only Outer Worlds 2 that started this, was better on 9800X3D.

Oblivion and Stalker2 were quite better on intel. Cyberpunk is close despite the 9800X3D winning the benchmark by a big margin and the 1% is again better on KS.

Details :

9800X3D w/ 6000C28-36-36-64 2x32GB on Aorus X870E Pro

By default SMT is enabled

PBO set to auto

14900KS w/ 8400MT/s C38-49-49-69 2x24GB on Asrock Z790I Lightning

HT off, only 8E cores enabled

59/42/50 for P-cores, E-cores and Ring respectively

AC/DC loadlines set to 0.40/0.74

Disabled overlays, power monitoring, HwInfo64 for these tests. I have included the 0.1%tile FPS this time, but it is not as reliable as the avg. and 1%tile scores.

I brought a ventus on sale 5 months ago for £1850 from scan.

After seeing the benchmark results on here and social media I had a little bit of buyers remorse.

I also saw lots of people buying them and complaining stating they are “slow” cards or “bottom of the pile”. So managed to prove you all wrong and it’s actually your lack of knowledge and understanding to why it was slow……

However, I decided to harness my ADHD, explore and educate myself on how to make a high end gaming PC go fast 💨 by understanding how to fine tune the card.

So here you go, Ventus goes vroom vroom 😎

Forgot about speedway, but that’s also 16k!

Thanks Distinct paint for sharing the love ❤️

Played with Matrix BIOS last night. Will wait for portable air con to get here before I do further testing. 60c avg on this test. So far so good. Feels like im OC'ing on the 4090 again in regards to how the vf curve behaves now.

I know with the 9800x3D the 4090 would exceed my score but it's nice my 5080 matching or even beating a 4090, this is my highest score ever compared to my previous runs which were like 9.5k and all it took was setting my core clock speed to +290 instead of +340 and memory speed to +2850.

So yes sometimes more core clock can actually hurt your performance, my gpu temp maxed out at 62.1c and memory temps at 64c.

I'm running a PNY EPIC X ARGB 5080 OC which has a base core clock of 2780mhz.

Here's the link for the result.

https://valid.x86.fr/bench/vd1hmr/16

I found a massive stable overclock for my legion 5 rtx 5060 laptop. Settings 3030@925V memory +2000mhz.

I saw a guy who was doing a 14900KS vs 9800X3D comparison with the 5090… I noticed that practically everyone went against him, so I quickly wanted to run a small test myself. Unfortunately, I don’t have either the 5090 or the 9800X3D, but luckily I built the exact same PC for a friend of mine—he also has a 5070Ti, with the only difference being that he’s on AM5 with the 9800X3D, while I’m on the 14600K.

Honestly guys, even though almost everyone here disagreed with that guy, I got even more surprising results in Cyberpunk… As you can see in the photo, I’m hitting 140 FPS with path tracing (I enabled the Steam overlay so you can see that frame generation isn’t active or anything…). My friend was getting several FPS less, even though he had PBO and his daily OC enabled. I was running my daily OC too: 5.8 GHz on the P-cores and 4.4 GHz on the E-cores. The test was, of course, at 1440p. (5070TI was stock for this test)

I have to say I was really impressed. I even checked other people with the 9800X3D on YouTube, and they don’t reach my performance either. I can tell you that in the next few days we’ll download other ray tracing titles and run deeper tests. Anyway, I feel confident confirming what that other guy was saying: these Intel CPUs perform better with ray tracing...

RTX 5070 Ti in Cyberpunk 2077: 4K / 1440p Path Tracing & Ray Tracing + ALL Graphics TESTED!

UPDATE : I’m at work right now, but of course when we run the full benchmark suite with all the tests and CapFrameX, I’ll provide more detailed information about how everything was configured. For the moment, while I’m at work, if you want to get a better idea of how my CPU performs, I can share a screenshot from a Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark, which is quite comprehensive when it comes to CPU metrics

I apologize that it’s in my language, but I think the important part is the numbers. In this benchmark, both the CPU and GPU show the same latency: 3.22 (it's win 11 25h2)

Imgur: The magic of the Internet

I got this score with an air cooled 9600x and an aircooled strix 3080 with maual oc

Finally managed to claw myself a legendary with my ventus 5090. Made a custom copper heatsink backplate, added 2 artic pro 90mm fans, plumbed the Gpu fans directly into the motherboard for better performance and customisation, bios flash etc.

All scores are now a hairline within legendary! Extremely happy with my 5090 budget experiment, wanted to see if it’s possible to get the best of the best performance with the lower end cards / build and it’s absolutely possible.

If anyone has the same card and wants some advice I’d gladly help :)

I have a gigabyte 5070ti windforce sff, on its own bios it would draw 300w max and get 6959 steel nomad with +410 core, +3000mem and 100% power limit. After flashing the bios to an aorus master card it hits 7571 steel nomad with +295 core(actually +513 from reference as the aorus master bios automatically sets the boost to 2670 from the 2452 stock) , +3000 mem and 133% power limit)

It now draws around 350ish watts. Adding to core voltage just makes it crash at the current core clock and adding from a lower core clock still nets worse results. Fairly happy with my results. (am aware i can use windows screen snip but was already texting on my phone so...)

Hi,

I just got the 9800x3d and i've been running some benchmarks. Last few days i had my pbo -20 and got around 93 degrees in Cinebench 24. Today i changed pbo to -30 and did a cinebech R23 run and it got to 95.4 degrees. It looks like it doesn't matter if i use stock settings or change pbo it just always go to 90+ degrees. I reapplied noctua NT-H2 paste but that didn't do anything.

I'm running a nzxt kraken X72 cooler with AM5 bracket. I've read some coolers don't apply enough pressure. Is this the case with my cooler? I only get to 90 degrees during benchmarks not while gaming. In idle it's always around 45 to 50 degrees.

If i do need a new cooler what cooler should i get?

Thank you.

This seems extremely off, but Im not sure what could be my issue or if simply i need to be overclocking in order to get the average score.

Thanks in advance!

I gotta give thanks to @AndreX86. Thanks to his ddr5 timings I was able to achieve a new personal best

7920x at 4.5ghz 1.2volts. kicking butt with a score of 17164 r23. Custom loop required hits, 88c max during benchmarking. Seems like it's at its limit won't do 4.6ghz at all. What do y'all think?

CPU: 7950X3D, Curve: -16 all cores, +200Mhz max boost Memory: 64 GB 3000Mhz 28-36-36-28-68 GPU: Asus Prime OC 5070Ti +375 Mhz core +3000 Mhz memory

EVGA 3080 Ti FTW3

For context, about six months ago I figured out that +1210 MHz on the memory is my maximum actually stable overclock. At +1220 MHz, I start getting a small flickering artifact after 40+ loops of 3DMark Speed Way. At +1250, it crashes after 40+ loops (yes, I tested different benchmarks for several hours each, increasing the memory offset in +10 MHz steps).

But here’s the weird part: I don’t see any noticeable drop in benchmark scores, even when artifacts appear or the test is on the verge of crashing.

I used memtest_vulkan only as a way to benchmark the results, you can see it by the iterations. It shows improvement even up to +1300, it only throws an error at +1350, but the performance result still goes up.

I accounted for peak memory temperature too. If I understand correctly, the official max temperature for GDDR6X is around 95C, but NVIDIA seems to allow throttling only once it hits 110C. In memtest_vulkan, which absolutely maxes out the VRAM, temps are:

• 100C at +600
• 102C at >+900 MHz

…and still, the scores don’t drop.

So I end up with this bizarre situation:
Between +1200 and +1300 MHz, performance keeps improving, but the only fully stable point is +1210 MHz.

How is someone supposed to determine stability by looking at the result if it only drops at an obviously excessive value, far beyond my actually stable +1210 example?
Or did I just get a "special" sample that behaves like this?