Tuesday, April 19th 2022
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core Processor Now Down to $520-550
AMD's current generation flagship desktop processor, the Ryzen 9 5950X, can be had for a steal, with prices now ranging between $520 and $550. Prices of the 16-core/32-thread processor based on the "Zen 3" microarchitecture, have been on a sharp decline since the launch of the Core i9-12900K "Alder Lake," falling from the $750 launch price to $600 in early-March, with current (late-April) prices looking like $549 on Amazon, and $519 on the venerable MicroCenter website, with even lower prices expected in-store. At $520-550, prices of the 5950X would compare with the Core i9-12900 (non-K), but still be higher than the $385 Core i7-12700K. The 12-core/24-thread Ryzen 9 5900X can be had for $399 on Newegg.
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40 Comments on AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core Processor Now Down to $520-550
If you find a chip you want, snag it. the jump from zen+ to zen 3 is very noticeable, especially in 1% lows, and anything production related it will be night and day.
Just kidding, I still love my 5950X and it still packs a push on heavy workloads and games it handles to perfection for my needs. Besides 5950X is a great upgrade option for people on AM4 socket specifically now with the old 300 series chipset board supporting Zen 3. Replacing example a 1800X with 5950X, will not only give a massive boost in games, but also a healthy boost for heavy workloads. For games alone, 5950X is off cause still not recommended. But for those that have a first gen ryzen cpu and need much more power for both games and workloads, It a sweet upgrade with out the need for new ram and motherboard.
Core i9 12900K processor review - Performance - Content Creation Blender (guru3d.com)
For more benches look at the review - follow the link..
Well I can but I will get in trouble :laugh:
At $550, the 5950X is kind of insane right now. If you're in the "need way more cores than most people" game, it's hard not to understate how cheap AM4 is compared to other options, and even a $300 motherboard is an absolute bargain compared to anything with a TR4 or SP3 socket. Don't get me wrong, dual-channel memory has its limits but you can comfortably run the IMC of a 5950X at 3800MHz because only top-bin silicon makes it into those CPUs; I do *not* overclock render boxes for production workloads, but to validate memory stability at the 3600CL17 I run the renderboxes at, I Memtest86 them with the only kit of Trident Royal I've ever purchased - DDR4-4000 C18 and a 2000MHz FCLK and very few of the 5950X fail to achieve that at stock settings. If you can assume that 5950X will all hit 2GHz FCLK, possibly with some tweaking, then you've got an almost-guaranteed amount of bandwidth that is encroaching on server-grade quad-channel setups running ECC.Over your 5900X, it's hard to justify the upgrade.
We buy 5950X for rendernodes as it's the most cores you can cram into an AM4 socket, but all of our workstations are now 3900X or 5900X because they absolutely wafflestomped everything else in terms of cores/overall platform cost at the time of purchase. I don't think even a $550 5950X changes that because I've seen that down at $370.
Turns out my 5800X boosts to 4.8 without PBO at stock TDP. I was going to clock the snot out of it but it seems to be silly-efficient at that speed and why ruin a good thing? Sample size of one, YMMV etc...If you bought a 5950X just for gaming you're an idiot who ignored pretty much all the advice and every review ever made of the damn thing. Probably same reason you bought an i7 instead of an i9, it's the smarter gaming purchase.