So why do you think the 5800x3d is being outperformed by the 7000 series CPUs like the 7600? Im not too familiar with those new CPUs. Did AMD up the clocks to finally hit 5.0 ghz? maybe this engine prefers higher clocks?
it could be l2 cache too
5800x 3d, even at its superior form, only has 4 mb of l2 cache
probably inferior infinity fabric
7600 and stuff has 6 mb l2 cache. and probably better infinity fabric
to be honest, all Zen CPUs tend to age horridly compared to Intel CPUs. it almost feels as if AMD specifically tunes their CPU so that it stays performant for the 2-3 year window , then falls off. zen + and zen 2 was of a similar story. I thought zen + and zen 2 aged horridly because of inter ccx latency. but somehow Zen 3 also started acting up. I seen some benchmarks in jedi survivor where 5600x was more stuttery compared to something like 10400f, a much slower CPU (at least generally).
seems like there's some gimmicky side to the overall "Zen" architecture that is a bit problematic in certain workloads.
Cyberpunk with ray tracing in jig jig for example pushes 5800x 3d below 45 FPS easily, whereas 12900k easily holds a near 60 FPS there. there's something amiss that most reviewers ignore due to them being denoted as "outliers." but sooner or later new games become CPU bound enough that those outliers become the rule rather than the exception. zen+ and zen 2 suffered the same. mostly they performed good compared to Intel CPUs, but there were outliers. but reviewers did thwarth them as "outliers". fast forward to 2022-2023, those outliers now become the norm for those architectures .
if same happens to zen 3 and zen 3 3D CPUs, I will try to persuade everyone from buying AMD CPUs. it is not really a good look in general