Ryzen 5800X vs 3800XT vs 3800X Benchmarks with Nvidia RTX 3080 | 10 Games Tested
225Within a week of their launch, AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPUs are sold out wherever you look, despite the company "shipping tons of units." The CPU shortages are particularly frustrating for customers who have already been left out in the cold over the Nvidia RTX 3000 series launch - one that has notoriously been plagued by shortages everywhere you seem to look. That launch prompted one user on Twitter to complain that AMD's upcoming releases would be a "paper launch" as well - specifically that they would "launch" a product with very little inventory available for PR purposes.
This prompted a response from Frank Azor, AMD's chief architect of gaming solutions and marketing, assuring us that this would not be the case.
Next, let's take a look at the Ryzen 7 5800X versus its last-generation AMD Zen 2 equivalents, and the current like-priced "Comet Lake" 10th Generation Core competition from Intel...
As you can see, when comparing the Ryzen 7 5800X to the Intel Core i7-10700K, the latter trails in metrics like power draw and legacy motherboard compatibility. However, they both feature the same number of cores and threads: eight cores and 16 threads each. The LGA 1200 socket is new with Intel's 10th Generation Core CPUs, requiring a new motherboard. The Ryzen 7 3800X's support for the AM4 socket means you might be able to use it on a late-model AMD board.
You can use an X570 or B550 AMD board with the Zen 3 chips with a BIOS update, and many X470 and B450 motherboards should get BIOS updates to work with Zen 3 CPUs in early 2021. Although you might expect to save a bunch of bucks if you already own a Socket AM4-compatible motherboard, those hoping for a bundled cooler inside the box to keep costs down will be disappointed. Since its line of Ryzen 3000 XT CPUs released earlier this year, AMD has shied away from including bundled coolers like the Wraith Prism with its top-end processors, under the expectation that users shopping at this price level will have (or want to buy) their own air or liquid coolers to install during setup.