Friday, February 24th 2023

AMD's Reviewers Guide for the Ryzen 9 7950X3D Leaks
AMD's Ryzen 7000-series CPUs with 3D V-Cache are set to launch next week and alongside the launch, there will obviously be reviews of the upcoming CPUs. As with many other companies, AMD prepared a reviewers guide for the media, to give them some guidance, as well as expected benchmark numbers based on the test hardware AMD used in-house. Parts of that reviewers guide has now appeared online, courtesy of a site called HD Tecnologia. For those that can't wait until next week's reviews, this gives a glimpse of what to expect, at least based on the games tested by AMD.
AMD put the Ryzen 9 7950X3D up against Intel's Core i9 13900K, both systems were equipped with 32 GB of DDR5-6000 memory and liquid cooling. Tests were done with both AMD's own Radeon RX 7900 XTX and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. We won't go into details of the various benchmarks here, as you can find those below, but according to AMD's figures, AMD came out on top with a 5.6 percent win over the Intel CPU, at 1080p using the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and by 6 percent using the GeForce RTX 4090. This was across 22 different games, with Horizon Zero Dawn and F1 2021 being the games favouring the AMD CPU the most and Far Cry 6 and the CPU test in Ashes of the Singularity being the games favouring the AMD CPU the least. TechPowerUp will of course have a review ready for your perusing by the time the new CPUs launches next week, so you'll have to wait until then to see if AMD's own figures hold true or not.
Sources:
HD Tecnologia, via VideoCardz
AMD put the Ryzen 9 7950X3D up against Intel's Core i9 13900K, both systems were equipped with 32 GB of DDR5-6000 memory and liquid cooling. Tests were done with both AMD's own Radeon RX 7900 XTX and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. We won't go into details of the various benchmarks here, as you can find those below, but according to AMD's figures, AMD came out on top with a 5.6 percent win over the Intel CPU, at 1080p using the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and by 6 percent using the GeForce RTX 4090. This was across 22 different games, with Horizon Zero Dawn and F1 2021 being the games favouring the AMD CPU the most and Far Cry 6 and the CPU test in Ashes of the Singularity being the games favouring the AMD CPU the least. TechPowerUp will of course have a review ready for your perusing by the time the new CPUs launches next week, so you'll have to wait until then to see if AMD's own figures hold true or not.
133 Comments on AMD's Reviewers Guide for the Ryzen 9 7950X3D Leaks
I know it depends a lot on the location, server, time of day, etc but still
The opposite happens with GPU tests, the GPU will take longer and only be able to render a lower number of frames at higher resolutions while the CPU has enough time to keep the pipeline fed.
Makes the products go faster :laugh:
If 3d cache doesn't produce a boost at normal use case resolutions, little point in it.
It doesn't matter what CPU you have if you're GPU limited anyway. That should be highlighted.
A 7800X3D might look very impressive value wise with a cheap RAM kit next to the 13900K.
Yeah it will help in some WS tasks coded to take advantage of it, but in that setup those are mostly outliers.
For the people going on about Raptor Lake memory speed able to be higher, there is fuck all performance improvement
Core i9 13900K DDR5 7200 MHz (+memory scaling) review - Final Words & Conclusion (guru3d.com)
I could care less about about gaming performance with cpu's like Zen 4 and Raptor Lake, they are more than strong enough. For productivity I still think 13700K is the sweet spot, but will wait and see if the RL refresh is more than a tweak to clock speeds.
there are lots of games that struggle at 1080p now, but none of them are in that guide The very best ram you can buy is the 5600C28 stuff. After that, the 6000C30 stuff. You don't get any advantage buying "faster" stuff for Intel either.