AMD Ryzen 9 3950X beats Intel i9-10980XE in 3DMark Firestrike by almost 25%
As releases dates are getting closer, we'll see more and more infor leak somehow. New is a 3DMark Firestrike for the Ryzen 9 3950X, which can be compared with Cascade Lake-X. Guess who won?
We assume the obvious being that we assume these benchmarks are genuine – as provided by the ever-present CPU leaker TUM_APISAK.
The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X (16-core) result which we see here was run on a X570 motherboard and shows a Firestrike test, shows a score of 32082. The maximum turbo clock shows just over 3,700MHz and the stock clock of 3,500MHz. The AMD rig was outfitted with 16GB of Kingston DDR4 at 3,200MHz and 16 cores with 32 threads active. An Core i9-10980XE (18-core) result with 32GB of 2,666MHz Samsung DDR4 scored 25,838, is great but substantially less.
Firestrike is heavily threaded limited though, ergo compared is the CPU tied Physics score.
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Agree. We can't blame Intel for trying to make money as that is the sole purpose of corporations. If you look at Intel's earnings they are still making record profits year on year so they are following there C corp mandate. I do disagree with corporations as a whole as maximizing shareholder profits really should be 3rd or 4th on the priorities list for any company that plans to be around for the long haul. Take Intel for example there short term maximizing of profits is going to cost them long term market share. If we look out 50 years I bet this myopic view costs Intel trillions. My hope is AMD doesn't let up and gets a sizable share of the server market and they very well should since there SMT is significantly better than Intel's hyperthreading. The closer to 50/50 market share the better it is for the consumer albeit the worse it is for Intel. To be fair I do hope Intel gets a decent piece of the dedicated GPU market as it really needs a third player to help stop all the proprietary nonsense Nvidia pulls off. So in short competition is good for the consumer and bad for the pseudo monopolies.
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Ain`t that obvious - AMD optimized that CPU for that benchmark.

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@Margalus
Doesnt say WHERE it is 25% faster.
And anyone that actually cares to read the article, would know that its the phy score..
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AMD Ryzen 9 3900X against Intel Core i9-9980XE - AnandTech
I did; I was surprised how many times the R9-3900X beat the shit out of the i9-9980XE. That's the 3900X mind you, the 3950X isn't in their database yet.
The cost of delaying new microarchitecture
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Intel was mocking with customers and enjoying the throne for far too long ... the prices were accordingly ... now things have changed and they are SO LOST but they still have the market share that will fall in the next years if they dont come with something truly magic !
How many sockets did the make ? how many times they made customers buy new motherboards ? I think there are maybe 10-15 sockets for basically the same CPUs ... they were so greedy even the chipsests had to be sold in imense amounts .... The performance increase was at least mediocre between the many "generations" they had and it was so easy and comfy to count the money coming in with absolutely nothing new.
Take an I7 970 from 15 years ago compare it to an i7 from 5 years ago ... the difference ... marginal. All those core i5 with no hyperthreading all those K and Extreme processors that costed like a small town car ... it will all go to dust and I will be dancing in that dust in 5 years with my shiny new 64 core processor made by AMD.
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