AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review: The Best High-End CPU

At the price, it would be better for AMD to offer the 9900X3D with a full 8 on the X3D core and then 6 on the non-X3D core. Yes, that would make it 14 cores, but it would make sense of the price and not compromise the performance of the X3D core. The 6 core X3Ds could be saved for the inevitable 9600X3D. Many people would choose it in that case to save a little money and AMD would have the best of both worlds, a way to sell more non-X3D cores with 2 disabled cores and to sell more X3D cores with 2 disabled in the budget 9600X3D, both would be extremely popular choices.
 
Shockingly quiet from the Intel fans, suprised to see nobody saying how much better the 285K is over anything AMD has.

It is legitimately weird seeing AMD outright dominate Intel though, I was 12 years old the last time that happened. Honestly well deserved, Intel spent years giving us the same CPU over and over again, then they got lazy with the manufacturing process, it is self inflicted.
 
It is legitimately weird seeing AMD outright dominate Intel though, I was 12 years old the last time that happened.

My first pc was a Packard Bell Pentium 75mhz. A few years later I upgraded to an IBM PC with AMD K6 800mhz.

I was working part time at Best Buy PC/Home Office selling computers while I was in college at the time when the Athlon 64 came out rocked Intel's world.
 
Shockingly quiet from the Intel fans, suprised to see nobody saying how much better the 285K is over anything AMD has.

It is legitimately weird seeing AMD outright dominate Intel though, I was 12 years old the last time that happened. Honestly well deserved, Intel spent years giving us the same CPU over and over again, then they got lazy with the manufacturing process, it is self inflicted.

Equally shocking that nobody has complained about 1080p gaming benchmarks yet… coincidence?
 
Shockingly quiet from the Intel fans, suprised to see nobody saying how much better the 285K is over anything AMD has.

It is legitimately weird seeing AMD outright dominate Intel though, I was 12 years old the last time that happened. Honestly well deserved, Intel spent years giving us the same CPU over and over again, then they got lazy with the manufacturing process, it is self inflicted.


Think is the Intel just wins in encoding , but does it a minute saved on encoding , will be taken up in preparing the files as slower everywhere else , add in more power. Plus that time is more valuable as that is the user in front of their machine, unzipping , handling the files etc

These things are so powerful , add in some AI/creation tools people hate - people will be able to make movies etc much more easy .
Probably need an article on movie Flow - maybe was GPU based , but believe that was on a "simple" system
 
Awesome cpu for sure and even in ECO mode trades blows with 9800X3D in gaming and uses less power. Still KitGuru had 9900X3D and it actually is a good product in itself in gaming other than the stupid pricing. If it gets a price cut, 9900X3D will finally be a worthwhile product unlike the 7900X3D which sucked at productivity and was thrashed by 7950X3D in gaming.

A PBO's and UV'd 9900X3D will be a great alternative for those that don't want to move to 16 cores and here in Australia 9950X is way more than $100 dearer, more like $400.

Hopefully we get this tested ASAP.
 
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Here, the 9950X3D delivered, on average, 35% more performance – a mind-blowing margin unlike anything seen before in AMD vs. Intel comparisons

You guys have forgotten about the Athlon 64 57-FX.

Back then, it was shown to be 30% to 40% faster on average when it comes to games, compared to the Pentium 4 670 back in the days.
 
Great review, thanks! AMD has made an excellent product once again. It was a sad day when CPU's seem cheap next to video cards.
 
My first pc was a Packard Bell Pentium 75mhz. A few years later I upgraded to an IBM PC with AMD K6 800mhz.

I was working part time at Best Buy PC/Home Office selling computers while I was in college at the time when the Athlon 64 came out rocked Intel's world.
Radio Shack/Tandy 486/33 was my first. A whopping 2MB of RAM. Eventually I upgraded to 6MB, that cost me $750 for a single 4MB module!
 
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