Amd ryzen 9 3950x11/24/2023 With more cores and threads but the same TDP as the 3900X, average clockspeeds may actually be lower in some workloads, and AGESA updates have just as often reduced performance while improving stability in my experience. In most other games, the 8-core/8-thread i7-9700K is just as fast as the i9-9900K, sometimes even beating it as it doesn't have to deal with the partitioning of resources that Hyper-Threading entails. That's partly because the game was purpose built to put a heavier load on the CPU at higher quality settings. Right now, I'm aware of only one game that consistently shows scaling beyond 8-core CPUs: Ashes of the Singularity. This isn't really a gaming CPU, though it can obviously be used for games. (Image credit: Future) Ryzen 9 3950X gaming performance Enabling Precision Boost Overdrive might boost performance a bit as well, and I'll look at that a bit more on some other motherboards. At stock, I saw all-core clockspeeds hover in the 3900-4000 MHz range, depending on the workload, and games would routinely run at 4200-4300 MHz. You can probably do 4.1-4.3GHz on all 16 cores with the right cooling and some luck from the silicon lottery, but you'll give up maximum singlethreaded performance in doing so. Overclocking is a bit of an afterthought for the 3950X. It's possible to manually tweak the memory timings to further improve performance, but I try to provide a realistic view of "out of box" performance. I tested previously with DDR4-3200 CL14 memory and DDR4-3600 CL16 memory, and overall the CL14 RAM performed best. The main difference is that AMD also sent along a Kraken X62 liquid cooler, because air cooling isn't 'recommended'-and I stuffed everything into Adata's new XPG Battlecruiser case. You can see my testbed at the right, which is largely the same as in previous Ryzen 3000 reviews. The 3950X will be faster at multithreaded tasks, and it's great for content creation duties, but outside of professional work it's not really necessary. There really aren't any tasks where the 3900X or 3700X are insufficient and the 3950X is required. It costs $749 just for the CPU, which is more than an RTX 2080 Super that would be far more beneficial for gaming purposes. Not that gamers should really be considering the 3950X. That doesn't make any sense, considering it's supposed to have equal or higher clockspeeds than those parts, plus more cores. Performance in non-gaming tasks is great, and gaming performance isn't bad… but my current numbers are worse than the 3900X and 3700X, and basically tied with the 3600X and 3600. For now, I'm not posting this as a scored review, as I want to verify performance with another motherboard. That or drivers and game updates have changed since I last tested a Ryzen CPU (which was only two weeks ago with the Ryzen 5 3600). I'm pretty sure the AGESA update, or maybe just the MSI implementation of it, has affected gaming performance in a negative way. But changing firmware on a motherboard has the potential to affect other aspects of performance as well, and right now, with test results initially limited to a single motherboard, I'm seeing slightly lower performance in some benchmarks than I expect. The very first Ryzen CPUs (back in 2017) had some serious teething problems at launch that were mostly cleared up with BIOS updates that included newer AGESA code.įor this review, AMD provided AGESA 1.0.0.4 firmware that was required to properly run Ryzen 9 3950X. This microcode handles things like memory training, infinity fabric details, and more. As part of the motherboard firmware, AMD has a package of logic functionality called AGESA (AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture). New Windows 11 devices must use modern device drivers which have passed the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program for Windows 11 or the latest available modern device drivers based on Declarative, Componentized, Hardware Support Apps (DCH) design principles.All of that is well and good, but there's one other element to AMD's Ryzen CPUs I need to discuss before getting to the results. OEMs may use the following CPUs for new Windows 11 devices. Updates to the processor lists will occur at each subsequent general availability of Windows. It is expected that the processor list will not reflect the most current offerings from processor manufacturers between updates. Subsequently released and future generations of processors which meet the same principles will be considered as supported, even if not explicitly listed. These processors meet the design principles around security, reliability, and the minimum system requirements for Windows 11. The processors listed represent the processor models which meet the minimum floor for the supported processor generations and up through the latest processors at the time of publication.
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