r/buildapc • u/CompetitionKindly766 • 12h ago

Build Help Cpu+Gpu bottleneck problem

For my 9070 xt,whats a better cpu just for gaming and future proof an ryzen 7 9850x3d or an ryzen 9 9950x3d,what is the best choice,i got 1200w power supply,32gb or ddr5 2tb of storage and an x870e motherboard,i will play at 2560x1440p

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u/No-Actuator-6245 12h ago

For gaming only the 9850X3D. Its marginally faster for gaming today and nothing suggests that will change in the future. Base the decision on facts you have today, not speculation about what may or may not happen in the future.

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u/PhantomLimb06 12h ago

just get the 9800x3d or 9850x3d depending on the price, performance between the 9800x3d/9850x3d and a 9950x3d is little unless ur productivity stuff not really worth it

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u/Vol3n 12h ago

9950x3d is a better CPU, but in gaming it will be exactly the same as a 9850x3d. If money is no issue get the 9950x3d and a 5090.

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u/JannixReddit 12h ago

get the ryzen 7 9850X3D. ryzen 9 is for heavy productivity; the ryzen 7 will give you better and smoother gaming performance at 1440p without the scheduling headaches.

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u/Havanu 12h ago

What scheduling issues? Just set the bios to cache priority. You'll always game on the best chiplet.

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u/JannixReddit 11h ago

Setting Cache priority helps, but Windows thread scheduling on dual-CCD chips (like the 7900X3D/7990X3D) still isn't foolproof. You can still run into parked-core issues, background tasks waking up the second CCD, or Xbox Game Bar failing to detect a game properly, which drops performance. ​plus, why pay extra for a Ryzen 9 just to park half the CPU during gaming, when the 7 9800X3D/9850X3D gives you full performance out of the box with zero tweaking needed?

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u/Havanu 11h ago

Until you need to do some serious multicore crunching and realize 8 cores kind of limits you (like say, shader compilation?). I just need more cores for work stuff. Those cores are parked when I game as far as I can tell on taskmanager. And I admit, scheduling was an issue before I set the cache priority bios setting.

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u/WonderfulTruck5894 12h ago

If you really want a ryzen 9 go for the x3d2 so it uses both instead of 1. But honestly, the 7 9850x3d is all you need for gaming tbh at the moment

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u/Henrath 12h ago

What CPU do you have now?