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I know more than one person running a Ryzen 3700X (launched 7/7/2019) or similar and it's still a perfectly solid CPU.

There are at least upgrade options compatible with the same socket, unlike a certain other CPU manufacturer, but it's not like these are really worth replacing yet.

UserBenchmark scores the 5800x3d about 17% higher for $340.

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I am still running a 3600X. Zero reason to upgrade, the CPU has not been a bottleneck on anything I can throw at it. And if I do need to upgrade, that means new motherboard and memory too.

The 5700x3d is a cheap upgrade that stays on am4 and brings performance inline with zen 4 6 cores.

Still over $200 for something that doesn't need an upgrade except for this unpatched security issue. I can think of a lot of other things I'd rather do with $200.

At minimum, save it toward a GPU upgrade that would actually be useful, rather than replacing my CPU that isn't a performance bottleneck.

I wouldn't trust userbenchmark, they are extremely anti AMD biased. The 5800x3d is closer to 50% faster than the 3700x in most tasks.

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