The BEST (and Worst) AMD Gaming CPU yet? 5800X Review 

Finally someone makes me feel better about buying the 5800x. Lol.

I just upgraded my old am4 system to this cpu in 2023. I was able to get it on sale for under $200 so I feel like it becomes a great price to performance now. Only thing I'm working on is thermals. My old cooler isn't quiet enough for this monster. Hopefully a new cooler and some undervolting will do the trick and it'll get me through a few more years.

Thanks for getting the review out so quick. I'm glad I went for the 5800X. The 5600X just wasn't enough and the 5900X was too hard to get

First review of this series that actually makes sense! Thanks for not being afraid to go against the grain my friend.

Great realistic review. Thanks for your options, just picked this up.

Glad to hear some positive comment about the 5800x. Lol. I just picked mine up today. :) your comment after the amd presentation about the single ccx actually set my thoughts on the 5800x. Glad your enjoying it :)

Totally convinced by the power consumption chart! More cores would be nice when editing, but my computer is on 24/7 and this is a great balance of power vs heat/energy. Great job!

Hello and good day to all! Much love from the US of A to ya Brian and Tech Yes City. I hoping one day to see you stream with Rogue. I've got to say you Ozzies have found a way into my heart. 💟🤗 Great vid as always brother!

This cpu is a beast with undervolt. I have mine with 4925 mhz all cores with these settings in the bios or ryzen master. -30 curve optimizer, 123 ppt, 80 tdc and 90 edc. Temp idle at 32 and max load is 72 at full load. I do have a arctic 420 on it too though.

Finally, a positive review for 5800X ! Soon I will jump from my old friend i7 6700 to this ''nice to have for the next 5 years CPU''. Thank you Tech YES City !

Thanks man, you really tamed my post purchase regret . Everyone was shitting on this so bad, I thought i made a bad decision. This def does the job for me cus i wont be using 10 or 12 cores as i dont edit or stream as such.

Brian, just wanted to thank you for all the effort you put into your videos. Admittedly, a new Ryzen would be massively epic to own, but after watching your videos, I just cant get my eyes off of aliexpress Xeons and budget builds. Thanks again man!! (you've also inspired me to pursue a degree in I.T., so thanks for that too :))

Happy to see some praise for this cpu, I wanted 5900x at first but single ccx and no infinity fabric sold me on the 5800x

Great vid! Got 5800x and 3080 set coming in 3 days!!

Not budget friendly for me. I'll wait for someone to sell their 3600.

Great review I love the wqhd and 4K benches.

Good video, nice to see a different slant from most of the other reviewers. Would love to see an overclocking video for beginners on getting the best out of the 5800X as it looks like it has the headroom to stretch. I went for the 5800x on launch day for your exact reasons, so pleased to see the benchmarking showed a positive result. Still waiting for my CPU to arrive (was changed to a pre order) but I think it will get here before my 3080 :(.

hehe... Still playing the waiting game on this one since I couldn't buy one on time! I'll upgrade my PC eventually! Thanks for the vid, Bryan!

5800X is the one I was waiting for, in fact I waited for this specific CPU for years. The first non-cutdown uniform 8-core, and it'll be my CPU for the next 10+ years. 5950X is the only other CPU I would consider, 6-cores are headed to the grave soon when Squadron 42 comes out.

Short, sweet and to the point! Tech Yes Lovin distributed to the citizens! Thank you Bryan.

THANK YOU for talking about this being a great cpu to purchase & have for the next few years. Most tech reviewers only talk about buying for today's gaming titles, but I always look at how far into the future do I want my product to last before I feel I should upgrade.

Subscribed since you are literally the only source I can find that agrees with me! Thank you!!

The 5800x Fits my needs perfectly I couldn't deny myself from it. I run a Linux VM, lite editing for youtube videos/streaming and playing games. I'll pair it up with a 6800xt!

Bro its the one I will get out the stack, great reviews as always your the real Champion

Great video Brian.

love your videos! though would you manually overclock the 5800x or use PBO on a curve and let XFR 2.0 do the work.

I just upgraded my current system from the Ryzen 5 5500 to this chip. I also expanded my system RAM with another pair of 16GB DDR4 3,200 Mhz sticks of Patriot Viper Steel memory. Now I have 64 gigs of system RAM and the Ryzen 7 5800X CPU and boy does it make a difference. Now I just need to upgrade my monitor to a 1440p 100+ hz model and I'll be set. My current GPU is the XFX Radeon RX 6700XT Speedster Swift309 12GB GDDR6 graphics card so I should be able to game at 2K on High to Ultra settings in most games now.

Finally someone not burning down the 5800X thanks Brian! great video loved it ;)

👍Thumbs Up👍& I have the B450 steel legend MOBO so is it as simple as calling them up to figure out if everything works together in regards to up grading the cpu? Just Typing (Thinking) Outloud againg🤭🤣🤫.Actually after watching this I'll just go 3600 from my 2600 amd cpu,wyt?

Very nice video. I've settled on the 3090 and 5800X under water.

Thanks bro!

I just bought the 5800x I wasn’t sure if it was gonna be good or not but seeing you love the 5800x makes me feel good about my purchase so thank you 🙏🏽

Such a great video! I've only seen people hate on the 5800x. Is this CPU a good option for someone looking to get into youtube video creation/editing and streaming, or should I hold out for the 5900x?

sorry to hear your quiet scream for help that Bryan. We're here for you brother

Awesome video, thanks mate! Really love that 5800x, but not loving the price tag =\

I bought one. It finally arrived. Can't wait to play with it.

Very happy with mine. It's a beast when you undervolt it.

I upgraded to the 5800x from 2700x and its so smooth. Delighted with it.

I got this CPU 10 days ago. Forums, Reddit, RU-vid videos, RU-vid comments are full of "heat problems. My experience is: Cinebench jumps to 79c for about 3-4 sec and then it settles down on the 75-76c. (10min test) In gaming: Warzone everything on High settings and resolution 2560x1080 temps are: 60-70c. CPU cooling is Arctic Liquid Freezer II with stock paste. For now, I'm really very happy with this CPU. Using it with 32GB 3600mhz RAM and 1080Ti.

Currently happy with my 3600. But will love to pick this up next year as a Black Friday purchase.

Hey man, have you encountered any issues with the 5000 series and x570 MSI motherboards where the XMP Profile above 3200 causes a no boot? There is an entire Reddit thread on this. As always I appreciate and love the content man! Keep it up :)

I purchased my 5800x last Thursday and I am watching the tracking number as it makes it way to me intently 😁

I was not sure about buying this chip. Glad I did saw this video. I want the 12 core. But with the semiconductor shortage I jump on this. Thanks for video.

Mine precision boosts to 4950mhz single core! Love it.

Authorative and balanced summary without theatrics. Subscribed... At least the hate has resulted in the 5800x being available at somewhere around MSRP here in the UK, which makes it better value compared to the 5600x marked up by 20% or more.

Highly recommended. Very impressed by it. Actually wanted the 5900x but it can't be found anywhere for a long while just like the 5800z so when the 5800x showed up grabbed it right away and I can't complain

This vid describes exactly the reason, i cancelled my early November 5900x preorder, and got me an actual available 5800x. Situation here in Europe cpu wise looks way better than with all the gfx cards, but still - 5900x will actually be available only early next year. So not because price (that's 0 concern for me, i had already paid the 5900x and getting refund), but the fun using an 8core 1ccd low latency monster of a chip. And i don't really need (!) that many cores anyways, plus planning on up/sidegrading several pc's in the house too, when 5000 series refresh comes out next year. Was extremely happy with the 3800XT (now my wife is, she enjoys the blistering speed in her now updated desktop, and the pure overkill on her casual&browser games). And the 5800X as well - that's really an impressive chip. Faster in anything, most noticeable in cpu dependent games (rpg's and older titles. Or newer, like Serious Sam4, where the cpu makes a world of a difference - we're talking +/- 50fps differences here with same gfx card). And the sweetest thing: all cores (not only 1,2 or 3 - all 8) reach 4850 easily, within a minute when checking with HWInfo, in single core/light loads, and around 4,4-4,6 in all core loads. Does a tiny tad higher temp at ~75°C at full load, yet similar to the 3800XT, with a good case and 240 AIO. But stock. And without PBO. And without even hitting the 140W limit doing so. Does take 4 dual ranked 16G sticks@3600 (which btw also the 3800XT was able to) - just sweet. I use an MSI MEG X570 Ace board btw. And as it's so snappy it needs no oc in any way, i just tried a little bit for fun - it takes even higher single core/light load boost speeds set in bios/fmax with ease. Or lower voltage on same clocks, or just have the best perfoming energy saver cpu by limiting it to 65 or 95W....simply because it can. Damn awesome - don't miss the 5900x in any way, and with very low super-pi 1m numbers (for fun/doing comparison) it feels beefy, stable and quick in anything, "like Intel" - yet even faster 👍

Probably should have watched this before I ordered mine. But being into primarily video editing I am pretty happy with my purchase.

The gamer in me went for the 5800x, I play COD and I'm happy to hear that it performed the best out of all chips in warzone, music to my ears!

My 5800x auto OC to 4.95 ghz with the Ryzen Master software, air cooled too. I'm using a Cryorig R1 cooler, 32gb ram @ 3733 (OC to 4000mhz), on a Aorus Ultra x570 mobo.

I got the 5800x. My OCD decided it over the 5900x because I plan on mating it with the 6800xt

Personaly i would love to get my hands on the R7 5800X that would make my editing experience just amazing and gaming too. When i still had my X5690 4.5ghz setup on the rampage 2 extreme that was also great but the renders were 1:1 with the video lenght. I would love to get the 5800X but i cant afford it☹

A year later and one of the only ones that got it right. Well played sir. 👍🏽

I've bought one too. Thanks.

Hi great video.. just upgraded to this cpu and with a b550 AsRock gaming 4 itx but my benchmark test is really poor. I know I only have a 1050ti palit storm x GPU but surely this can do better? Any tips to get it to run better as no idea how to overclock or under volt.

I find alot of tech channels are very focused on high refresh rate gaming these days, whereas I barely ever hear about ultra wide for instance. I wish the Steam Survey would include in their monitor analysis something for Hz gaming.

Love your content man!

I picked this one up. I just wanted an 8/16 zen3. It is what it is.

Can you shar e your overclocked settings please?? I would like to try it out on my 5800x

I had been planning on getting the 5800x, even had one in my cart for pick-up but cancelled it because they raised the prices! it's now $30CAD over MSPR and if I'm going to cave I might as well spent the extra $130CAD for $5900x.. yes I'm worried about the latency as well, but I do a lot of transcoding for work and that will be worth it over gaming hopefully.

Mine arrived today and i had only problems since i put it in. Made a BIOS update before, installed the latest chipset drivers (in fact i worked in IT and have some exp). As soon i put the 5800X in i had constant blue screens, and crashes. Tried everything, deactivating XMP, PBO, C-State control, installed a new Windows (and dropped all my VST-Plugins of my DAW for music producing...the whole reason i wanted to upgrade in the first place). It kept crashing, i read into that problem, and saw many people and forums talking about it. I know i could hassle around with voltages and such, but i want a stable out of the box experience, before i OC my setup. Man what a bummer, i really wanted to like this CPU but so far it was one of the worst experiences, in my 20 years of IT. RMA incoming and will settle on a 5700X i guess, hope that one won't let me down.

Can't wait for the ryzen 7 5700x that's, gonna be the true king here🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Im just impressed how easy overclocking is now. I just switched PBO to manual only changed the offset to 200mhz and my 5800x now regularly boosts to 5,05ghz single core and 4,95 ghz 2-3 core boost

Which b550 motherboard would you recommended?.... not planning on overclocking but would like features. I'm interested in the strix E

Appreciate the alternative perspective on the 5600X, 5800X? I probably would wait for the 5700X and/or 5600, still not sure I want to invest more in 8 cores, by the time it matters maybe I'll be upgrading again anyway. How about a few tests, load up a system with a 5600X, run a couple of benchmarks with nothing open, then load your chrome, discord, spotify etc, run em again, rinse repeat with a 5800X? That would be really interesting because, I mean you'd want to test a couple of CPU intensive and CPU light games to see the differences

The 5600 should be the new performance and value king, waiting for that one

The 5800X is a beast. I have mine at all stock BIOS settings, except for custom fan curves and turning on DOCP for the RAM and it's clocking up to 4.94Ghz on a Noctua NH-U14S. It normally doesn't go over 72 degrees under a real world heavy load. With Prime 95 during a torture test, it can reach 90C even, but only with the AVX instructions enabled. Even during the Prime 95 torture test, it was running at 4.6Ghz on all cores and never dropped below that. Geek bench gave me a 1720 single core benchmark. Sorry I lost the multi core Geekbench result, but it was over 10k that much I remember. I'm using a Asus Tuf Gaming X570 Pro, a new mobo from Asus and Crucial Ballistics RAM at 3200Mhz. It's been updated to the most recent "stable" BIOS although it was running good out of the box.

Thanks again

Any chance we get an esports titles benchmarks with the new ryzen cpus? LoL, Dota2, CSGo, Fortnite, R6, Rocket League ? Just a suggestion, snicie you guys would be the first one to do one and all of esports is on 1080p

Mine tends to run hot, which I knew when I made the purchase so I planned my build around it. I have a 360 aio with the radiator on top and the fans under it pushing air from the inside out and 3 140mm fans on the front pulling cool air in. The front fans do not have to spin as fast to move the same amount of air so it is quiet there and the radiator blocks much of the noise from the internal fans. It does kick up to 90c during long stress tests, but even at those temps the clocks stay solid right around 4.5ghz on all cores. Once the tests are over it cools down pretty quick.

what mic do you have? and what are your settings

Mine arrives tomorrow.

I baught a very little used (just test installed) 5800x for only 300 dollars!! VERY happy with it and the price I got it for! :)

I prefer the 5900X and 5950X since they have double the write performance of single CCD chips. Same read perf, but doubled write.

I somehow feel that in value calculations, the expected life need to be included somehow. Maybe like a linearly depreciating assets. It would be difficult, but I feel the 8 core current chips would outlast the 6 core chips by a solid 1-2 years.

hi Brian, can you recommend what components will you use with 5800x ? in meaning of mothearbord ? b550 or other one ? also the memory sticks ? can you advice ? thanks Martin

@Tech YES City If I am a streamer, will the 5800X be enough for me? I will be making some youtube videos also but I have to say twitch is my main platform. Should I hold out for a 5900x or will 5800x be ok because I can find a 5800x right now but 5900x is very hard to find up in Canada here.. Thanks

I just got one and I love it. I'm not in to overclocking dont understand how to do it properly and don't wanna risk any damage doing it wrong haha, but my cpu just auto boosts between 4800-4900 when I play games and I've noticed such a huge difference from my 2600 cpu haha

I ordered one because of the high single core clocks. I like to play some really cpu heavy games which hammer 1 core so a high clock speed + the nice zen 3 ipc is something I want.

Can't wait for Ryzen 3000 Series desktop CPUs to be on the used market. :)

ordered the 5800X last week. Upgrading from Ryzen 5 3600.

Mr. Yes giving us the best!

I think once in telegraphed their 11 Gen. And these will receive a little bit of a price discount cannot think that would be the best time to scoop him up hopefully that happened here in 3 months so i can get in January.

Just upgraded 5 mins ago from a 3700x. I have not even loaded a game yet and its already a massive improvement! Snappier and smoother! I had a very poor day 1 3700x that barely hit 4.2ghz! The 5800x is boosting to 4.9ghz on every core! Im so happy :)

As someone who is selling their 3600x, this decision to raise the prices for the 8 core makes me confused as to whether to just get it anyway or splurge a little more and get the 5900x even though I won't be able to leverage all the cores.

I bought the 5800X for FL studio, and I feel like it's a really good balance between core count and single thread performance. The single thread performance slays with FL studios workload, I can throw on a ton of effects and not have to worry. and 8 cores is perfect as FL doesn't really scale beyond that anyway.

It would be great if they made APUs with this gen. I remember a rumour about an 8 core APU with integrated graphics as good as gtx 1060, if that ever launched, that would be my choice.

My body is ready

i know the value for money isnt there and most tech tubers say dont buy 5800x but the thing is 6 cores wont cut it for me based on what i do 12 cores in the other hand are overkill for me personally again , its nice to find a guy who is doing a great job and understands the needs someone could have and makes a product evaluation on your needs first and value for money last. sorry for my poor english my 5800x is going to be here in 2 days !

I'm so confused about this CPU. I originally wanted to get it but I kept seeing posts regarding heating issues. I'm still drawn to it, but what have you guys done about its heating issues?

Upgraded to the 5800x from a 1600x. Performance difference is insane. Was worth the 200$ I paid for it.

I just want to support amd due to the push they have been doing. I'm upgrading from 4770k and will be going 5800x asap with 570 formula seeing I'm straight watercooling

joined a preorder queue for this on launch day, to me it seemed the best option, 5600x was just about too weak for me to be comfortable buying it. I need it to last 3 years+ upgrading from my i7-7700k that has been great for 3ish years, until now.

THANK YOU for backing my decision to get a 5800X. I was kind of in doubt after hearing, what gamers nexus had to say about it. I thought it's a smart thing to do to get a cpu that has a full pack of 8 cores on one ccx sharing the same L3 cache memory. I payed 450€ for it and I think i'm fine with my purchase... Edit: Got it for gaming only...

Exact same reasons you said was made me choose the 5800x. Yup it was expensive, but its probably going to last me the next 3 /4 years. The 59xx have cores wasted on me. And they are sometimes slower than this one in situations.

Bought a used 3700x a year ago for $220 shipped. Still the price per perf king!

As many others have done, I went with this thing because I can actually buy one haha. The 5900X was my original choice but it doesn't look like we're getting those any time soon unfortunately. I use my system primarily for gaming so I think this will work out rather well.

Brian, I have a 2700X/2080TI for music production and gaming (4k), do you think that it's worthy to upgrade to a 5800X/6800XT?? or it's best to skip this gen until AM5 arrives??

I just got the 5800x for my wife's machine at a Microcenter here in the USA. It was $400 USD vs the 5600x for $280, but my wife doesn't like messing around with her computer any more often than is absolutely necessary. The 5800x will stay relevant courtesy of those extra 2 cores/4 threads altogether longer than the 5600x would. So I talked it over with her, as she's knowledgeable about these things but doesn't enjoy tinkering around with pc builds or messing around with them once she's got them set up how she likes them. She was more than happy for us to pay the extra $120 for a cpu that'll stay relevant for longer and maybe get her another year or even two of good performance in games when the 5600x's 6 core/12 thread situation might be fading into the mid-tier. We're both pretty firmly convinced that the PS5 and Xbox Series X era is going to see PC games be optmized for those platforms as well or even firstly even moreso than was the case throughout the PS4/Xbox 1 era. In a year or two, I think the 5800x will still be a solid contender for top-end performance in games, whereas I think anything less than 8 physical core and 16 thread solutions are going to be increasingly left behind. We can already see that happening to 4c/8t CPUs in a lot of games that were optimized hard for late-gen performance on PS4 Pro and XB1 platforms. They still work, but it can't be disputed that the difference in performance between, say, a 4c/8t 7700k and a 6c/12t 8700k in a good many newer games is directly affected by core count. Right now, today, 6c/12t is the sweet spot in most games for top tier performance for the money, but I think that's largely due to that the PS4 Pro and the XB1X are 8c platforms that only actually use 6c for running games. The other 2c are generally reserved for the OS and background junk. Console development really dictates a lot of what the standards are for game development, and there's no real mystery about why; they've got a much larger market share. PC ports of console games has been a much-complained-about reality for probably fifteen years or so, and its the standard anymore with almost all games, sometimes weirdly enough even with games made for PC that never wind up on the consoles they were developed to eventually migrate to. I don't think 6c/12t CPUs are going to suddenly get bottom-tiered or anything, but I think they're going to go the route of 4c/8t a lot more quickly than it took for us to move past 4c/8t as the sweet spot for gaming. 8c/16t is going to be the new sweet spot real quick. And I don't doubt for one second that, in about two years, we'll be seen games coming out that, all other factors being identical, will cough up something like 60 FPS on a 5600x and 90 FPS on a 5800x simply due to the games being optimized to take advantage of 8c/16t with increasing commonality. So, my wife and I discussed this and she just about immediately decided that the extra $120 was worth being able to delay having to consider upgrading to a new mobo/ram/cpu baseline any sooner than will be necessary to stay in the upper tier of gaming performance. We can easily afford it, but we aren't the sorts of people that like to spend money on things that don't make sense even if we could light it on fire and never miss it. Just isn't good practice or what smart people do, after all. If you want the best gaming CPU for the money right now, today, the 5600x is a no-brainer. Get it, be happy with it, you didn't make a mistake. If you want the best gaming CPU for right now and one that will remain a strong performer for years to come, the 5800x is going to stay in the high end longer. This won't mean a thing to you if you're the type that builds a new PC with new hardware every two years or so, because the 5600x will probably still be a strong performer in two years and the 5800x will probably be outclassed by whatever the big new thing is by that time. But if you're like my wife and you like your desktop to be solidly good for at least five years, the 5800x is everything the 5600x is, just more of it. 2x/4t more of it, to be precise. Those extra cores will never be a detriment to you, and as time goes by, they're going to be taken advantage of more and more as 8c/16t becomes the new 4c/8t standard of yesteryear.

what would your opinion be between a 5600x and a 3700x for gaming and light workloads?