RIP Intel: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU Review & Benchmarks (Workstation, Gaming, Overclocking)
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Date: 2020-11-05
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Blahorga
That comment about turn times in total war increasing with complexity and longer games gave me a flashback. I can't remember what the game was called but it was a strategy game where you kept trying to outproduce the enemy and flood the battle ground with more and better units than your opponents. The first few rounds was OK, but once you got production running and started to really flood the world with your armies things bogged down something awful. I remember that I never completed a campaign as eventually just making your own moves would take well over 20 minutes, and then you had to wait for the computer opponents and that would take more than five minutes even when set to minimize the animations to speed up things as much as possible. Also once you had a more than a hundred units on the move it started to get hard to remember just what you intended for them to do. Why did you order all those tank squadrons to move to that particular town? Why was those troop ships docking at that harbor? And why was that carrier patrolling that particular path when it didn't have a single airplane yet? A couple of hours, or something like 5 turns, ago all that made perfect sense...
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That comment about turn times in total war increasing with complexity and longer games gave me a flashback. I can't remember what the game was called but it was a strategy game where you kept trying to outproduce the enemy and flood the battle ground with more and better units than your opponents. The first few rounds was OK, but once you got production running and started to really flood the world with your armies things bogged down something awful. I remember that I never completed a campaign as eventually just making your own moves would take well over 20 minutes, and then you had to wait for the computer opponents and that would take more than five minutes even when set to minimize the animations to speed up things as much as possible. Also once you had a more than a hundred units on the move it started to get hard to remember just what you intended for them to do. Why did you order all those tank squadrons to move to that particular town? Why was those troop ships docking at that harbor? And why was that carrier patrolling that particular path when it didn't have a single airplane yet? A couple of hours, or something like 5 turns, ago all that made perfect sense...
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Alex
That V-RAY benchmark was insane. A 16-core 5950X OC'd to 4.7GHz scored 35346 while the stock 64-core 3990X scored 78031. The 5950X is achieving 45% of the performance of the 3990X with only a quarter of the cores (16 vs 64). Theoretically speaking, doubling the cores in the 5950X would bring its performance to roughly 90% of the 3990X. Accounting for a probable lower OC than 4.7GHz, I would assume the performance would be closer to 80% of the 3990X. Even then, it would be 32 cores vs 64 cores. My mind is officially blown.
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That V-RAY benchmark was insane. A 16-core 5950X OC'd to 4.7GHz scored 35346 while the stock 64-core 3990X scored 78031. The 5950X is achieving 45% of the performance of the 3990X with only a quarter of the cores (16 vs 64). Theoretically speaking, doubling the cores in the 5950X would bring its performance to roughly 90% of the 3990X. Accounting for a probable lower OC than 4.7GHz, I would assume the performance would be closer to 80% of the 3990X. Even then, it would be 32 cores vs 64 cores. My mind is officially blown.
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Austin
Kinda disappointing gaming results compared to fully tuned Intel, but I'll be curious to see if they can make it up with a strong ram oc and tightened timings but it looks like they did make some nice improvements. This is really what Zen 2 should've been. Better late than never though. Hopefully it won't have all the issues Zen 2 had with older games and online games. Good luck to everyone trying to get these in stock - hopefully it won't be a repeat of the RTX 3080 launch. May your F5's be fast.
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Kinda disappointing gaming results compared to fully tuned Intel, but I'll be curious to see if they can make it up with a strong ram oc and tightened timings but it looks like they did make some nice improvements. This is really what Zen 2 should've been. Better late than never though. Hopefully it won't have all the issues Zen 2 had with older games and online games. Good luck to everyone trying to get these in stock - hopefully it won't be a repeat of the RTX 3080 launch. May your F5's be fast.
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Dewayne
AMD stated they wanted to look like the quality product rather than the valuer product, basically telling Intel that if they both wanna ologopolize, push prices far higher than even now, that they are willing to play ball. 10900K is now 600 on newegg, as if it's a collectors item. You would think after the first hundred billion these companies would be broken up. Maybe the first trillion.
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AMD stated they wanted to look like the quality product rather than the valuer product, basically telling Intel that if they both wanna ologopolize, push prices far higher than even now, that they are willing to play ball. 10900K is now 600 on newegg, as if it's a collectors item. You would think after the first hundred billion these companies would be broken up. Maybe the first trillion.
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Operational
Seeing this brings a smile to my face: no more stagnation. At last we have some performance gains at CPU-bound levels.
If the 5600X does indeed have better performance, I m looking forward to that review.
But Intel better not sleep on their jobs... lest AMD becomes the new Intel (with stagnation and unwillingness to improve).
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Seeing this brings a smile to my face: no more stagnation. At last we have some performance gains at CPU-bound levels.
If the 5600X does indeed have better performance, I m looking forward to that review.
But Intel better not sleep on their jobs... lest AMD becomes the new Intel (with stagnation and unwillingness to improve).
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commanderdonut
I just got home after staying up all night to camp out for a 5950X at the boston microcenter. Spent 15 hours waiting outside to find out they got 0 in thier shipment; in fact all they did get was 3 5900X's which sold out before I got in the door (I was 6'th in line). I was so hype, now I'm just upset
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I just got home after staying up all night to camp out for a 5950X at the boston microcenter. Spent 15 hours waiting outside to find out they got 0 in thier shipment; in fact all they did get was 3 5900X's which sold out before I got in the door (I was 6'th in line). I was so hype, now I'm just upset
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Del
Sold out everywhere like Nvidia GPU's. Most are being scalped on eBay... I'll just will order Intel parts. Not a fanboy of either, but right now, the biggest bang for the buck is Intel. Sadly, I waited for this release, but glad I waited on the motherboard too. 1700 scalped buy now on eBay is insane.
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Sold out everywhere like Nvidia GPU's. Most are being scalped on eBay... I'll just will order Intel parts. Not a fanboy of either, but right now, the biggest bang for the buck is Intel. Sadly, I waited for this release, but glad I waited on the motherboard too. 1700 scalped buy now on eBay is insane.
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Nathan
So is zen 3 on N7+, N7P, or still on normal N7? Different sources are inconsistent about it. I'd previously thought it was N7, but I doubt it if the clock speeds are this high.
Edit: I found a quote from Robert Hallock confirming it's the same node as Matisse Refresh!
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So is zen 3 on N7+, N7P, or still on normal N7? Different sources are inconsistent about it. I'd previously thought it was N7, but I doubt it if the clock speeds are this high.
Edit: I found a quote from Robert Hallock confirming it's the same node as Matisse Refresh!
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bardacuda82
Only a couple hours after launch and everyone is losing their minds about stock. Geez, give it a couple days/weeks before you call it a paper launch. Sounds like a lot of people did actually get their chips today and retailers could be staggering their restocks.
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Only a couple hours after launch and everyone is losing their minds about stock. Geez, give it a couple days/weeks before you call it a paper launch. Sounds like a lot of people did actually get their chips today and retailers could be staggering their restocks.
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Vasiliy
hey Steve.
I'm on 5820k, had to overclock it to the limit to keep up with the modern gaming and requirements.
Wondering, would you recommend 5800x as an upgrade? or 5600x? I do programming / game dev on the side, and a bit of 3D modeling
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hey Steve.
I'm on 5820k, had to overclock it to the limit to keep up with the modern gaming and requirements.
Wondering, would you recommend 5800x as an upgrade? or 5600x? I do programming / game dev on the side, and a bit of 3D modeling
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