

Hardware Unboxed showing their 12 game avg: 7600X beating the 12600X-DDR5 by a 8.5% margin or the 12600K-DDR4 by a whopping 16.5%. TPU's 12 game performance average sees the 7600X negligibly trailing the 12600K by ~1% I finally found time to go through a couple of reviews to see how other tested games measure up. This makes those reviews pretty irrelevant for people upgrading in the way people actually upgrade. I'd expect Zen 4 to be the same, the cost of upgrading is so large why skimp on something like memory to save $50 on your $1000 upgrade, especially to go so far down as 4800. Everyone I've talked to the last week who is upgrading is using 6000Mhz or 5600Mhz. Thing is, I don't know a single person using that kind of memory. When you cripple the memory on both rigs like that to the 4800/5200 offical spec, the 5800X3D absolutely crushes all of the Zen 4 and Alder Lake rigs. Most sites don't do this, they show you what the chips performed like 1, 2 years ago when released - buggy BIOS, drivers, OS and all.

I think it obvious, no one doing DIY is using DDR5-4800.Īnother aspect is that Tom's is most likely re-using old benchmarks for comparison, TPU did a complete refresh with Win 11 and new drivers for all test configs. TPU used DDR5-6000 C36 on all systems, plus some runs with DDR5-6000 C30 for AMD. Tom's used DDR5-4800 on Alder Lake, and DDR5-5200 on Zen 4.
