Customer Ratings & Reviews

Had to replace my faulty Intel i9, and this works amazingly well. Strongly considering never returning to Intel after seeing the performance out of this product.

Its great. 10% boost on 1080p games a little less on 1440 and 4k games. Great gaming CPU. It does run a little hotter than 7800x3D, so make sure you set your cooling to compansate.

Great gaming CPU. Runs a little toasty but to be expected of an X3d chip. Just put a nice cooler on it and don’t worry about it. Best chip in gaming right now for the money, highly recommend.

Excellent gaming CPU. Totally worth the price. Increases 1% lows on games. It playing competitive shooters, must buy.

I bought this once my 14th gen i9 started to fail. So far it has been amazing for gaming, getting more fps than my i9 did. I mostly game so losing the core count hasnt bothered me at all for all my other applications and much lower power consumption 100w vs 270w, both running at 100% utilization.

It's super fast and does everything that I need it to do in seconds

I switched to a 9800x3D from a 13700K with microcode failure...and WOW. Game to game, the difference is negligible...but connected to a 280 AIO, the Intel chip would hit 85-88 degrees under load. The 9800x3D rarely goes above 75. I have it paired with a RTX 4800 Super and I couldn't be happier.

Paired with 5080 it has removed any and all CPU bottleneck from my system. Only used for games so cannot speak to multitasking.

Currently, the best CPU for gaming. In certain CPU intensive games, it will run VERY warm to hot, so make sure you get a good cooler for it! You can run it with an undervolt so it can run cooler - check YT for the deets on that. ;-)

Best Gaming CPU !!!!! I recommend to everyone building any PC in 2025/2026

Upgraded from a 5900x and got a decent boost in gaming

Have had this only for about couple months and I've come to a conclusionbrhat this is this best cpu ived ever had. It's superb for what I do on a daily basis. Base clocks are stable and even overclocked it. I have had 0 problems with anything I've thrown at it.

For gaming it's very good. But any thing need more cpu cores there's better for the price. Just makes sure you cooler has the right bracket

Speed chip. Goes fast and hard for speeds. Oh, And it's fast. Big gamer time.

Easily the best cpu ive ever bought. Great performance!

Amazing performance for gaming, stays cool too!!!!

Great CPU for gaming. Was undecided between this and the 9950X3D but the cost of the 9950 and the fact that the 9800X3D performed better for gaming helped me choose. Its been fantastic

Do not second-guess purchasing a 9800X3D. The best gaming CPU on the market. Pair with DDR5 6000MHz C30 RAM, a decent (not over priced B850 motherboard), at least a 5070ti, and no lower than 2k monitor.

Very good cpu for gaming but make sure if you use hardware monitoring software turn off gpu power % sensor it hurts performance.

I upgraded to this CPU, and the difference is night and day! My old processor i7 10700k was bottlenecking my GPU harshly, but now I’m finally capping out my 3080ti, actually utilizing the gpus full power. Getting higher FPS across all games. I gained frames just by swapping to this CPU—no extra tweaking needed, no undervolting, overclocking. Game at 4k 144hz, and this CPU will definitely let you utilize the GPU you paid for without restriction.