Monday, February 20th 2023
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Runs First Benchmarks
AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 7950X3D processor will bring 16 cores and 32 threads along with 16 MB of L2 cache and 128 MB of L3 cache for 144 MB of 3D V-cache present on the package. Today, we get to see it in action for the first time in benchmarks like Blender for 3D content creation and Geekbench 5 for synthetic benchmarks, where we get to compare the scores to the already existing models. In Blender, the new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D scores 558.59 points, while the regular Ryzen 9 7950X scores 590.28 points. This represents a 5.4% regression from the original model; however, we are yet to see how other content creation benchmarks suit the new CPU.
For Geekbench 5 synthetics, the upcoming Ryzen 9 7950X3D scores 2,157 points in the single-core score and 21,841 points in the multi-core score. The regular Ryzen 9 7950X can reach around 2246 points for single-core and 25,275 points for multi-core score, which is relatively faster than the new cache-enhanced Ryzen 9 7950X3D design. Of course, some of these benchmark results show that the 4.2 GHz base frequency of Ryzen 9 7950X3D plays a significant role in the overall performance comparison, given that the regular Ryzen 9 7950X is set to a 4.5 GHz base clock. Both designs share the same 5.7 GHz boost speed, so we have yet to see more benchmarks showing other differences induced by larger cache sizes.
Source:
via Tom's Hardware
For Geekbench 5 synthetics, the upcoming Ryzen 9 7950X3D scores 2,157 points in the single-core score and 21,841 points in the multi-core score. The regular Ryzen 9 7950X can reach around 2246 points for single-core and 25,275 points for multi-core score, which is relatively faster than the new cache-enhanced Ryzen 9 7950X3D design. Of course, some of these benchmark results show that the 4.2 GHz base frequency of Ryzen 9 7950X3D plays a significant role in the overall performance comparison, given that the regular Ryzen 9 7950X is set to a 4.5 GHz base clock. Both designs share the same 5.7 GHz boost speed, so we have yet to see more benchmarks showing other differences induced by larger cache sizes.
76 Comments on AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Runs First Benchmarks
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2. Asus B650E Strix : If I want my family to continue
3. MSI X670E Ace Max: If I want a full blown divorce.
Hopefully the costs will keep coming down though as the cheapest of those boards is $500 Canadian and the Ace Max is a cool $999 Canadian.
For example Far Cry 5 went from 144FPS to 198, Borderlands 3 from 98FPS to 138 yet Cyberpunk went from 116.8 to 117.2FPS
www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d/16.html
I would suspect with a 4090ti and 7xxx series AMD there would be more games that will take benefit and next gen cards as well but it isnt a magic bullet in all cases.
5800X3D is a very good chip for people to get now that there has been price cuts to the chip since AM5s release.
AM5 is still relatively overpriced for its benefits over AM4 and unless you have money to burn or arent already on the AM4 platform which seems to be quite a lot of people you see in comments. Most people who are already on an AM4 platform and it makes perfect sense.
For anyone else who is looking to build now or I would say in the previous 2-3 months it would be better to go for AM5 just because you have longevity (hopefully) with the 7xxxX3Ds and future processors even with the extra cost taken into account especially with the non x parts being relatively cheap.
Chips should be able to do everything well..
As long as there aren’t major scheduling issues theses will be the best CPUs I’d you do more than just a single task.
Now we start looking at Scientific/Production/Enterprise aspects and the benefits of more than 8 cores with V-Cache can become pretty astounding with previous generation Milan to Milan-X comparison showing benefits from 10-80% depending on software and working sets.
Now lets Say we can build a system for <$2k for a 16 core 32 Thread part with V Cache vs an Equivalent Epyc costing OVER $2k just for the CPU. Add to the fact of the benefit of another 500 - 1Ghz advantage in clock speeds for the "Consumer" Chip? Whats the point for a lot of people to buy Genoa-X in say developer workstations?
For anyone on the fence, imagine if your 5800X3D had 4 to 8 more cores and a 1 GHZ higher base clock?
Edit:
Dont get me wrong, I do enjoy my X3D, but I also enjoy my 5900X. The X3D is great for games, and I do notice a difference..
I invested in a 6 core 12 threads extreme processor i7 980x at 4.3 ghz in 2010 it took PC game development more than half a decade to eventually code for 6 cores and even now we still have AAA games coming out that only use 2 cores. Also Techpowerup's own 7600x vs 7700x shows o significant gains in gaming with a few outliers. The 4090 also bottlenecks the 5950x and 5800X3D thus I am expecting a similar bottleneck with the 7950X3D and 7800X3D with 4090 successor. How much longer will PC gaming use the brute force approach before we get support for more than 8 cores/16 threads processors?
update probably ps5pro/ ps6 ports.
Or did you mean something different? Like fastest x86-x64 desktop cpu??My next build will be at least 6 years down the road....................see what happens then, maybe it could be a RISC/SPARC or ARM CPU ;)
AMD really should get the ball rolling with productivity software makers to try and take advantage of these larger caches.
Imagine
- 7zip or Handbrake being 2000% faster
- Virus scan taking only 5 seconds instead of 10 minutes.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator going on space missions.
- etc....
I'm still waiting for ECC support before buying into this new platform.I haven't had any Cons as such moving to the 3DX - but the Pros in games speak for themselves, plus it runs cooler in most takes.. Depending on what your GPU is in raids, bgs, and world bosses fights, my FPS never drops below 80fps now - and that's with raytracing turned on with the graphics set to level 8 at 1440p - I'm putting that 3080 to work lol.