AMD Ryzen 9 3950X review

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/15/2019 03:40 PM [ 91 comment(s) ]

The review today hardly will need an introduction, the monolith has arrived, the consumer, and not even HEDT, the sixteen-core processor in the Ryzen 3000 family, the Ryzen 9 3950X. It is fast, feisty, agile and even affordable. Join us in a review of the Ryzen 9 3950X processor.

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schmidtbag
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Posted on: 11/14/2019 05:36 PM

Very nice results. It's amazing to see this kind of performance on a consumer platform, soundly beating the 2950X and even coming close to the 2970WX. I had doubts about this CPU before but now I can't wait to get my hands on one.

I'm curious how the results would stand in terms of clock-per-clock performance. Zen2 has lot of optimizations, and the 3950X has higher clock speeds, but the TR models have a lot more memory channels and don't have the I/O die (which I suspect hurts latency at times).

That's what I hate the most about AMD's lineup. I mean, is it really so difficult to release an APU with the current-generation tech? A staggered release makes no sense and is downright confusing.

I don't really have that much of a problem with the staggered release, but I have a REAL big gripe with the way they classify generations. The 3000G should be called the 2000G, because it's Zen+. Same goes for all of the current mobile processors - they're all Zen+ but they're labeled as the 3000 series. It's not like Zen+ is bad and there isn't a newer generation for customers to pick from, so why change the name?

southamptonfc
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Posted on: 11/14/2019 05:51 PM

Beast!

I wonder why it isn't quite as good in gaming when it beats or matches the 9900k in most synthetic single-threaded tests?

Ziggymac
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Posted on: 11/14/2019 06:07 PM

I don't really think a CPU costing $750, can be considered 'for the masses'.

nizzen
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Posted on: 11/14/2019 06:12 PM

Beast!

I wonder why it isn't quite as good in gaming when it beats or matches the 9900k in most synthetic single-threaded tests?
Mostly due to Higher memorylatency...

Loophole35
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Posted on: 11/14/2019 06:14 PM

Beast!

I wonder why it isn't quite as good in gaming when it beats or matches the 9900k in most synthetic single-threaded tests?
@nizzen is right it's latency. Hope Zen3 get this under control, but as it stands it's not like it's far behind the 9900k.

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