Hello,
I am wondering what CPU is going to be best to pair with an RTX3060? I am currently using an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X and the poor single core capabilities (which msfs relies on) just isn’t cutting it anymore. We are talking about limited to 12-15fps at crucial flight stages such as take off and landing.
I am not looking to change any other internals so it has to be an AM4 socket, initially I was thinking of the the lower Ryzen 9 processors but would it be worthwhile using a more powerful Ryzen 7?
To be honest, I just want to be able to maximise the capabilities of the 3060 as at the minute its pointless.
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If your MB is compatible with the 5800X3D, that’s the CPU for you without changing the AM4 platform.
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If you’re sticking with AM4, definitely get the 5800X3D, hands down.
Nothing else will do better on CPU-limited parts of MSFS. 
(I have one and am very happy with it, paired with a Radeon 7900XTX.)
Yep, 5800X3D on the AM4 Socket.
That said, check your Motherboard specs and BIOS versioning to ensure it is supported.
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The 5800X3D does not fully get rid of stuttering and performance issues.
I have a 5800x3d and RX6800 and I still get fps drops during takeoff and landing.
Also consider payware airports, PG, FSTL AI traffic causes a huge lost to performance. I can have 40fps at an airport and I drop to the 20s.
The upgrade is worth it but consider upgrading the GPU later to a 4070/4070ti with FG. That way there is more headroom.
5800X3D Is the way to go. And… always disable “rolling cache”…
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One additional point of input:
CPU/GPU bottleneck calculator
Why would you suggest a “Bottleneck Calculator”? That thing does not work.
The bottleneck calculator will take your inputs of your current gpu and whatever cpu you are considering along with whatever resolution you are going to run with and will indicate which one (cpu or gpu) you will be limited with and by how much.
And yes it does work - try putting in the 5800x3d.
LOL, it’s a generic online tool.
It lacks the most important parameter: the software.
MSFS is much more CPU demanding than the average game. You can be CPU bottlenecked with a 7800X3D and an RTX 3060 Ti at large airports with the A310 and real traffic.
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will the optimized single core 5800x3d be the best for mfss2024, optimized by promising, by multicore and multithreading ?
i personnaly delayed my decision and keep my 5800x for future days expectations…
sorry for my english, i m french
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That’s about the most usless thing on the entire web.
5800X3D multicore performance should be slightly worse than the 5800X due to AMD locking the X3D chip’s clock speed. In other words, you can’t (easily) overclock it like you can the 5800X. They have the same core count, so that’s not a factor.
I sold my 5800X and installed a 5800X3D and saw a significant improvement in overall performance in FS2020. Latency is much improved, due to the extra on-die L3 cache the X3D has.
I can’t really speculate on how FS2024 will utilize multi-core code, so I can’t speculate on which of those two CPU’s will perform better in the new sim.
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Some folks running the sim in 4K with Ultra settings report those same problems with their 7950X3D.
It’s all about managing your expections and adjusting settings to optimize your experience with the CPU/GPU combo you have.
The simple fact is that some flights are harder to render than others.
I don’t have any payware airports, so I can’t comment on those. But I do know that with my 2K (mostly) Ultra settings I get 40 FPS with no stutters to speak of landing at KLAX, which is widely considered one of the most demanding base airports in the sim.
If I flew there a lot, and was experiencing stutters, I’d tune my options down until the experience was a good one.
5800X3D
RTX 3090 Ti
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i know that… but i don t know what we can expect with msfs2024… so, i prefer wait…and see. i could next year get a new and well adjusted combo cpu/gpu if necessary. i stop my decision to buy the 5800x3d at the anounce.
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LOL are you expecting a tool that will advise how to balance perfectly your cpu/gpu just for MSFS?!? If I had that I could probably make some good money! 
BTW it does ask what type of applications you use and one of the options to select is graphic intensive.
I’ve found the calculator to be fairly good personally over time and if you re-read my post above I prefaced it as “one additional point of input”.
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The problem is, that MSFS is per se not really graphic intensive - it is, opposite to most modern games, really really CPU intensive - and not really optimized for multithreading (this is also one of the reasons MSFS 2024 is being developed). Therefore generic online calculators made for normal games won‘t bring satisfying results.
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