The 5800x3d in this chart is hilarious. Amazing value chip, really.

That being said, IIRC, there are only 8 games tested in Tomshwardware gaming averages? I understand the time and energy constraints to not doing huge tests, but I always think meta-reviews (3DCenter.org) or huge collections of games like HWUB does are always a better benchmark.

We've listed the best CPUs for gaming and best CPUs for workstations in other articles, but if you want to know how each chip stacks up against all the others and how we come to our decisions, this CPU benchmarks hierarchy is for you.

The most powerful chip gets a 100, and all others are scored relative to it.

You'll also notice that the 12th-Gen Intel processors, like the 12900K, 12700K and 12600K, have two measurements for each entry — that's to quantify performance with both DDR4 and DDR5 memory, with the former almost always offering better performance in Windows 10.

Most often overlook web-browser performance, but these are among the best CPU benchmarks to measure performance in single-threaded workloads, which helps quantify the snappiness in your system and correlates to performance in games that prize single-threaded performance.

This is one of the most commonly-used CPU benchmarks.

Can we get a chart in "general gains" format like gpus? Or does it not make much sense for cpus?

Some quick observations from the 1080p chart:

5800X3D leads the pack among all AMD chips, also ahead of the stock 13700K. 13600K ahead of all Zen 4 chips at stock. OCing 13th gen has a lot more benefit than I expected, especially the 13600K.

The 13600k seems like a ridiculously good value, especially if you’re reusing a DDR4 kit.

Yeah the i5 and i7 13th gen rip. My 13700k hits all core 5.8 easily with multiple cores boosting to 6.0. And I got it for 350$ from microcenter. Probably the best CPU I’ve purchased from a price/performance standpoint.

I paid far too much for my 5800X, but it's an 8 core 16 thread CPU that was unthinkable for that price just a few short years before, and will last me a long time yet.

Plus it'll never truly die, it can drop-in replace my VR PC's 3600, and then beyond that who knows maybe I'll be married with kids or something once a 5800X becomes "low end"

I have the same view on my 5900X. I’ve had it for 2 years and the highest utilization I’ve seen was ~70% peak in Spider-Man and A Plague Tale Requiem which are both notorious cpu destroyers. Otherwise it’s generally at 10-20% for most titles.

I’d like to get 6, 8, even 10 years of gaming performance and then pop it in a sim rig like yourself or pass it on in a build for a friend.

Thought about swapping the 5800X for the 5800x3d but I’ll probably just wait. I can’t imagine it’s worth it at 3840x1600 res with a RTX 3080

The 5800X3D was one of the best investments I've made this year. Even picking it up at the full retail price when it launched. I do not regret it at all. This should last me a VERY long time.