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Does an X3D CPU provide significant performance boost to content creation programs like Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom?

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Title says it all. Right now I'm using an ASUS ROG X670E Strix board with a 7900x CPU.

Putting aside tariffs, I'm wondering if an upgrade to X870E board and 9000 series CPU is worth it or not.
 
philb2 said:
Does an X3D CPU provide significant performance boost to content creation programs like Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom?
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No.

But if you still do some gaming, and are going with a 12 or 16 core Ryzen CPU, you might as well get the X3D version since they have a mix of both types of cores.

Also, the 9800X3D doesn't really give anything up compared to it's non-X3D equivalent (9700X) for workstation tasks, since it doesn't have dramatically lower clock-speed like the 7800X3D did. That is to say, the Zen 5 3D cache doesn't help with content creation apps, but it doesn't hurt either (other than your wallet).
 
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The extra cores def help, the cache not so much on content making programs. Games are another story. You can't go wrong with the 9950x3d.
 
arestavo said:
Really the only reason to upgrade to an 800 series board is to get USB4, which they are all required to have. As for content creation? I'd think that frequency means more, but I don't look into those kind of benchmarks. You would probably see a nice increase with a 9950X3D due to the extra cores, and it'd be great to game with as well. https://gamersnexus.net/cpus/amd-ry...285k-9950x-more#9950x3d-production-benchmarks
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Thanks. I forgot to say that I don't do any games except Solitaire. My daily driver software programs are MS Office (Word, Excel, some Access) and Photoshop and Lightroom. Plus a gazillion utilities.
 
It depends, I suspect that Photoshop and Lightroom won't benefit much. Your only upgrade on the AMD consumer side is the 7950X or 9950X (and their X3D variants). Phoronix has a fairly wide range of tests comparing the 9950X and 9950X3D- unfortunately I don't see Photoshop or Lightroom in the comparison and I'm not sure what the closest analogues are. https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-linux/10

Puget has their own benchmarks of Photoshop and Lightroom which seem to say X3D doesn't help much if at all: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...reation-review/#Photography_Lightroom_Classic
 
One simple answer:

Current productivity applications do not utilize the 3D V-cache at all. Hence, the difference between the non-X3D and the X3D CPUs boils down to the clock speeds of the CPUs themselves–especially the single-core turbo clock speed.
 
pro: expect a price hike until end of year?
con: Isn´t a 1xCCD 12 core AM5 cpu on the horizon?
 
Carlyle2020 said:
pro: expect a price hike until end of year?
con: Isn´t a 1xCCD 12 core AM5 cpu on the horizon?
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12 core CCD is just rumors at this point, and fairly weak unsubstantiated rumors at that. Nobody knows except AMD. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a 10 core CCD.

And if by on the horizon you mean next year, sure, the next iteration should be out sometime at the beginning of 2026. But again, no official launch dates, only predictions based on AMD's recent launch cycles.
 
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