![]() This engine is designed specifically for many-core chips and scales well up to 512 cores. The Ryzen 9 3950X shows its agility and matches the stock -9980XE step for step, but Intel's overclocking advantage hands the -9980XE the lead. The open-source Stockfish chess engine is the polar opposite of the Civilization VI engine. Meanwhile, the stock -9980XE trails, but tuning pushes it up the chart. The result reflects that the Ryzen 9 3950X is boosting well and that the game engines' execution threads are correctly steered to the faster cores. The stock Ryzen 9 3950X beats the other Ryzen models while trailing the Intel Core i9-9900K, but overclocking propels it near the top of the chart. The top of these charts used to be Intel-only territory, but AMD has made amazing gains in per-core performance (a mixture of IPC and frequency) with the Zen 2 microarchitecture. But otherwise, this is all I’ve got to say to AMD: Bravo! Well done, you’ve earned your amazing success.The Civilization VI AI test measures AI performance in a turn-based strategy game and is heavily influenced by high clock rates and instruction per cycle (IPC) throughput. I guess the last thing that needs to be accomplished by AMD is to make sure that this processor is available to buy in stores for $750 USD, because from what we have been hearing there’s going to be very limited quantities of this CPU, and that could potentially lead to price gouging. The $1000 USD Core i9-10980XE is only supposed to be a few percent faster than the i9-9980XE, but that processor was spanked by AMD’s flagship mainstream CPU and that’s a very big problem. This new AMD processor has basically devalued Intel’s entire high-end desktop lineup, and I’m talking about the upcoming Cascade Lake X here too, not just the current CPUs. I think AMD might have purposely sandbagged their early results by comparing the 3950X to the twelve core i9-9920X while this thing is actually competing against the eighteen core i9-9980XE, a processor that was retailing for a ridiculous $2000 USD just a few months ago. I also want to take a few seconds to talk about Intel, because they are in a lot of trouble. I mean $750 is not cheap, but it offers an amazing value for content creators or other power users who need to take advantage of all of those threads to chew through their particular workflow. I mean they literally brought ThreadRipper-like performance to the AM4 platform for a fraction of the cost of their higher-end CPUs. Real-World PerformanceĪll right, so to wrap things up, I am genuinely blown away by what AMD has been able to deliver with the Ryzen 3950X. Single core benchmarks show that AMD has made huge improvements with their lightly-threaded performance, which is really good news since most professional apps and games don’t fully stress all the CPU cores all the time. Cinebench R20 conveys the same story too, with the new Ryzen 9 leading everything. The 3950X blazes ahead of pretty much everything, even the i9-9980XE and the previous generation ThreadRipper. ![]() Let’s start off with Cinebench R15 and as you can immediately see… WOW. For cooling we used a Noctua NH-U12S heatsink on all platforms except for X399 and X299 which are cooled with the larger Nocta NH-U14S. All motherboard specific enhancements were disabled too. They are using 32GB of RAM clocked at DDR4-3600, GeForce GTX 2080 Ti, Corsair MP510 2TB SSD, and Corsair AX860i PSU. Generally, all of our test systems are the same. In fact, we have eliminated a lot of the synthetic benchmarks and we have replaced them with more real-world use case scenarios. I do want to mention that we have replaced our testing procedure. With that out of the way, I think it’s time to get into the performance results. In fact, it’s really meant for content creators or professionals who want to accelerate their workflow without investing huge sums of money into platforms like X299 or X399. ![]() AMD isn’t targeting this for gamers whatsoever. Now I do want to be perfectly clear about this CPU. I think you’re really paying a premium for having the fastest AM4 CPU on the planet. The issue for some people might be pricing because the 3950X costs 50% more than the 3900X, so don’t expect the same amount of performance uplift compared to that processor. Compared to the 3900X it has eight more threads and 100MHz higher Max Boost Clock, but the base frequency is also quite a bit lower too. Only thing the 3950X really lacks is the ThreadRipper’s quad-channel memory support. This CPU has 16 cores and 32 threads, which equals the ThreadRipper 2950X, but it also operates at much higher clock speeds too. I’m going to get into the benchmarks soon, but before that I do want to talk about the processor and what it’s all about just in case if you missed our earlier coverage of it.
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