Tests are still ongoing. I’m currently testing MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 on three CPUs: Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Ryzen 9 9800X3D and Ryzen 9850X3D.
I’m not overclocking any of them, because these are not Intel CPUs. Ryzen X3D CPUs don’t need manual overclocking - setting PBO is more than enough, and if someone really wants to tweak, a small negative vcore offset is sufficient.
I’ve already finished testing the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. I’ll be starting tests on the Ryzen 7 7800X3D soon, and the last one will be the new Ryzen 7 9850X3D.
The tests could have been finished earlier, but I ran into an issue with the motherboard not posting - specifically, no signal on the GPU. The iGPU was working, so at first I thought I had either damaged the RTX 4090 or the CPU socket on the motherboard. It turned out I had tightened one side of the CPU cooler too much. Everything is working fine now and the remaining tests are moving forward.
All results will be based on non-overclocked CPUs, because that’s how these CPUs should be tested. The MSFS forum is not an overclockers forum and the goal is to show real-world performance, not synthetic OC results.