AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review: Premiere, Blender, Overclocking, & Gaming CPU Benchmarks
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Date: 2020-05-06
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Foxiol
I'm months away (3 to 4 months since I have to save around 2000 +) from upgrading my FX8350, 16GB RAM, GTX970, I always build my PC for many years to come (4/6 years or so. and one thing I learned is to not go cheap on the CPU unless you are one of those that use to upgrade every year or two. So I'll probably get either this monster since I really need an actual UPGRADE, or a 3900X, then 32GB RAM 3600mhz or so, and probably going for a 2080Ti or whatever comes at that point. Believe it or not my FX8350 (with a CM Hyper 412S cooler) is still doing its job, never had issues with it. I play a lot and barely had issues with a couple of the latest games only (AC Odyssey for example maxed this CPU, not even Planetside 2 could) but could play every recent game without issues at 1080p mixing High/Ultra settings (AA not maxed obviously) with just a 970 (Asus Strix OC. So yeah, I'll see what to do in regards of CPU, but I won't go cheap, I saw how my friends with their Intel CPU's (i5 2500k and i7 2600k) had to upgrade twice back in the day, while I'm still using the same PC from 2012, and sure, they are playing at 1440p with GSync with better CPU's and GPU's than mine (one with a 1080 and another with a 2080Ti, yet one of them went from an Intel i7 8700 to a Ryzen 3800X, but I'm still having fun and not complaining. It is time to upgrade for me and oh boy. I'll tell the difference. Still on the fence if going for 1440p/144hz or 4k. (I like big screens)
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I'm months away (3 to 4 months since I have to save around 2000 +) from upgrading my FX8350, 16GB RAM, GTX970, I always build my PC for many years to come (4/6 years or so. and one thing I learned is to not go cheap on the CPU unless you are one of those that use to upgrade every year or two. So I'll probably get either this monster since I really need an actual UPGRADE, or a 3900X, then 32GB RAM 3600mhz or so, and probably going for a 2080Ti or whatever comes at that point. Believe it or not my FX8350 (with a CM Hyper 412S cooler) is still doing its job, never had issues with it. I play a lot and barely had issues with a couple of the latest games only (AC Odyssey for example maxed this CPU, not even Planetside 2 could) but could play every recent game without issues at 1080p mixing High/Ultra settings (AA not maxed obviously) with just a 970 (Asus Strix OC. So yeah, I'll see what to do in regards of CPU, but I won't go cheap, I saw how my friends with their Intel CPU's (i5 2500k and i7 2600k) had to upgrade twice back in the day, while I'm still using the same PC from 2012, and sure, they are playing at 1440p with GSync with better CPU's and GPU's than mine (one with a 1080 and another with a 2080Ti, yet one of them went from an Intel i7 8700 to a Ryzen 3800X, but I'm still having fun and not complaining. It is time to upgrade for me and oh boy. I'll tell the difference. Still on the fence if going for 1440p/144hz or 4k. (I like big screens)
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Draken
Man, this is depressing to see that your current CPU is so far behind at the bottom of the chart sometimes too low to even be on the chart (R2600 6/12) On the bright side, I am just waiting for my R3950X to be delivered today! :D I rarely play games but I do sell agents, signals on forex and more core means more work is done: D so this is a huge step up for me. As for gaming, I used to but slow down significantly as I get older and time is more valuable. I am glad it is affordable to have more than 8 cores for work to be completed faster. I was very tempted to get the R3900X (12/24) but glad I waited to go get this new beast, and will most likely hold me over for 4+ years or so hopefully. I haven't completely ruled out gaming to unwind before going to bed, or even weekends so having that is good as well. Also, do love playing around with mods, I'll assume having the extra cores to render objects will be a benefit as well.
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Man, this is depressing to see that your current CPU is so far behind at the bottom of the chart sometimes too low to even be on the chart (R2600 6/12) On the bright side, I am just waiting for my R3950X to be delivered today! :D I rarely play games but I do sell agents, signals on forex and more core means more work is done: D so this is a huge step up for me. As for gaming, I used to but slow down significantly as I get older and time is more valuable. I am glad it is affordable to have more than 8 cores for work to be completed faster. I was very tempted to get the R3900X (12/24) but glad I waited to go get this new beast, and will most likely hold me over for 4+ years or so hopefully. I haven't completely ruled out gaming to unwind before going to bed, or even weekends so having that is good as well. Also, do love playing around with mods, I'll assume having the extra cores to render objects will be a benefit as well.
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DrSuperGood
Big mistake in the video around 2: 20? The 3950X is advertised with a boost of 4. 7 GHz, as per AMDs website. The 3900X is 4. 6 GHz. This is a pretty serious mistake to make given how reputable Gamers Nexus is meant to be. The 1T Cinebench test being off by roughly 350 MHz points towards something wrong with the test setup. Possibly needing a future BIOS update to fix. This is even worse single core boost than my 3900X obtains (at worst 4, 500 MHz when warmish. The 1T test is meant to reliably hit and stay within 100 MHz of the specified boost under reasonable conditions, which for the 3950X should be between 4. 6 and 4. 7 GHz. This is also why AMD recommends a better cooler for it since they expect one to maintain the cores at a lower temperature to obtain such boost, as per the formula. Due to the boost not working correctly it also means that most of the measurements might be off by a few percent.
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Big mistake in the video around 2: 20? The 3950X is advertised with a boost of 4. 7 GHz, as per AMDs website. The 3900X is 4. 6 GHz. This is a pretty serious mistake to make given how reputable Gamers Nexus is meant to be. The 1T Cinebench test being off by roughly 350 MHz points towards something wrong with the test setup. Possibly needing a future BIOS update to fix. This is even worse single core boost than my 3900X obtains (at worst 4, 500 MHz when warmish. The 1T test is meant to reliably hit and stay within 100 MHz of the specified boost under reasonable conditions, which for the 3950X should be between 4. 6 and 4. 7 GHz. This is also why AMD recommends a better cooler for it since they expect one to maintain the cores at a lower temperature to obtain such boost, as per the formula. Due to the boost not working correctly it also means that most of the measurements might be off by a few percent.
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Ace
I want this but feel like the extra cores won't be useful until the next generation of CPUs is out, if even then, so it'd be a waste of money. Blows my 6850k away (barring PCI-E lanes? ignoring gen4) in IPC and vast core count. but production tasks are second to my gaming focus. I stream, run some VMs and dabbled with game design, but don't do anything serious, or for money. Very hard to justify the cost. But regardless, jumping to AMD means somehow trying to convert my Intel RAID I've used for years over, and I have no idea if it's actually possible as I honestly never bothered to learn about RAID nor if AMD has a solution on the chipset like Intel does. Plus AMD's other issues with heavy optimization in applications for Intel CPUs. I feel it'll still take a number of years before things are out of an early adopter -esque phase.
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I want this but feel like the extra cores won't be useful until the next generation of CPUs is out, if even then, so it'd be a waste of money. Blows my 6850k away (barring PCI-E lanes? ignoring gen4) in IPC and vast core count. but production tasks are second to my gaming focus. I stream, run some VMs and dabbled with game design, but don't do anything serious, or for money. Very hard to justify the cost. But regardless, jumping to AMD means somehow trying to convert my Intel RAID I've used for years over, and I have no idea if it's actually possible as I honestly never bothered to learn about RAID nor if AMD has a solution on the chipset like Intel does. Plus AMD's other issues with heavy optimization in applications for Intel CPUs. I feel it'll still take a number of years before things are out of an early adopter -esque phase.
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Mawson
I have. The new 9900ks with all cores running at 5. 3 ghz except one core at 5. 4ghz. I use fkight sims and the games I use never use more than 4 cores. I don t care about power unless it tops out my power supply and it hasn t. I have never been required to render anything and never will but it amazes me everybody that uses AMD seems to be involved in rendering. Either it s because only people that render buy AMD or the fanboys just crap on about rendering because that s the only thing they can crap on about with their 10 million cores? The SC or Quad core performance of this CPU has just reached what a K could do on a single core 2 years ago so exciting for fanboys but yawn for people thst don t pretend to be rendering all day!
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I have. The new 9900ks with all cores running at 5. 3 ghz except one core at 5. 4ghz. I use fkight sims and the games I use never use more than 4 cores. I don t care about power unless it tops out my power supply and it hasn t. I have never been required to render anything and never will but it amazes me everybody that uses AMD seems to be involved in rendering. Either it s because only people that render buy AMD or the fanboys just crap on about rendering because that s the only thing they can crap on about with their 10 million cores? The SC or Quad core performance of this CPU has just reached what a K could do on a single core 2 years ago so exciting for fanboys but yawn for people thst don t pretend to be rendering all day!
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cableaddict
Excellent review! Thanks for looking all all-core maximum oc. That spec is CRITICAL for DAW (audio) use, yet almost no one ever checks it, and the manufacturers rarely report it. Could you possibly post links to any other reviews you've done, of HEDTP's only, that include this test? I'll gladly post them on all the DAW forums. Another request, though it would apply to far fewer users: I would LOVE to see testing on max performance with a good water cooler, vs the top-end Noctua air cooler. The reason is that for anyone that uses mobile rigs, (live music, location video, etc) water cooling is still considered dangerous. It's also heavier & noisier. Well, I can dream. Anyway, thanks again, this review is incredibly helpful.
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Excellent review! Thanks for looking all all-core maximum oc. That spec is CRITICAL for DAW (audio) use, yet almost no one ever checks it, and the manufacturers rarely report it. Could you possibly post links to any other reviews you've done, of HEDTP's only, that include this test? I'll gladly post them on all the DAW forums. Another request, though it would apply to far fewer users: I would LOVE to see testing on max performance with a good water cooler, vs the top-end Noctua air cooler. The reason is that for anyone that uses mobile rigs, (live music, location video, etc) water cooling is still considered dangerous. It's also heavier & noisier. Well, I can dream. Anyway, thanks again, this review is incredibly helpful.
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Demorthus
Who else among you mad lads are running a 3900x & yet can't shake the smile off your face because even those of us who were on Intel, are tasting the beautiful performance on the Ryzen side; ) Even more so when you do more than just game on your beastly machines! .Boy- I keep looking back at the Z97 with a delid'd 4770k & 32gb 2133mhz (my old platform/setup) behind me with disdain and disapproval >: D. Each time I look I just tell myself (as though it were my child) you see this? you could've been this. You scrub PoS. . //This part of the comment was more for fun/jokes. Don't take it personal, If I've had to deal with that chip for 5+ yrs I'm sure I can officially make fun & dunk on it lol. //
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Who else among you mad lads are running a 3900x & yet can't shake the smile off your face because even those of us who were on Intel, are tasting the beautiful performance on the Ryzen side; ) Even more so when you do more than just game on your beastly machines! .Boy- I keep looking back at the Z97 with a delid'd 4770k & 32gb 2133mhz (my old platform/setup) behind me with disdain and disapproval >: D. Each time I look I just tell myself (as though it were my child) you see this? you could've been this. You scrub PoS. . //This part of the comment was more for fun/jokes. Don't take it personal, If I've had to deal with that chip for 5+ yrs I'm sure I can officially make fun & dunk on it lol. //
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XBnPC
Interesting, I'm getting 4. 2Ghz all core temps under full load. I'm using a Noctua NH D14 with Arctic Silver thermal paste and have an insane amount of case cooling, but I guess I won the lottery. I've yet to try any OC on my 3950X, bc it's just way too fast as it is. However, I literally have a screen shot of it hitting something like 6. 2-6. 4Ghz in 3dmark. It beats the out of everything I throw at it. Asus Crosshair VI Hero and 32GB 3200mhz cas 16 memory. I'm using a 970 Evo plus; so it's great, but not PCIe Gen 4 speeds obviously. I'll grab a Gen 4 board when I can. Being able to drop this into a old motherboard though was pretty cool. Pun intended or not; whatever u prefer
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Interesting, I'm getting 4. 2Ghz all core temps under full load. I'm using a Noctua NH D14 with Arctic Silver thermal paste and have an insane amount of case cooling, but I guess I won the lottery. I've yet to try any OC on my 3950X, bc it's just way too fast as it is. However, I literally have a screen shot of it hitting something like 6. 2-6. 4Ghz in 3dmark. It beats the out of everything I throw at it. Asus Crosshair VI Hero and 32GB 3200mhz cas 16 memory. I'm using a 970 Evo plus; so it's great, but not PCIe Gen 4 speeds obviously. I'll grab a Gen 4 board when I can. Being able to drop this into a old motherboard though was pretty cool. Pun intended or not; whatever u prefer
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Benny
For me, gaming is a bonus, and it's Capture One, as well as Lightroom that I use most. I don't use Photoshop that much now. I'm not really sure, but I think Capture One likes more cores than Lightroom. In reality, I probably won't notice any difference on either the Intel 9900K/KS, the AMD 3900X or the 3950X. It s overkill whatever I choose and it's nice! It's more about what I get for the money overall for everything and I like the X570 platform because of the possibility of Pcie 4 and more, faster memory support. Btw, are there more motherboards than Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme and Asus Formula that have a metal backplate?
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For me, gaming is a bonus, and it's Capture One, as well as Lightroom that I use most. I don't use Photoshop that much now. I'm not really sure, but I think Capture One likes more cores than Lightroom. In reality, I probably won't notice any difference on either the Intel 9900K/KS, the AMD 3900X or the 3950X. It s overkill whatever I choose and it's nice! It's more about what I get for the money overall for everything and I like the X570 platform because of the possibility of Pcie 4 and more, faster memory support. Btw, are there more motherboards than Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme and Asus Formula that have a metal backplate?
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Anon
Hello, i get that this CPU is great but the question with CPUs with high number of cores and threats etc is if you would actually use them. Otherwise you are better off buying a cheaper CPU with less cores and not waste your money. So i am the kind of user that likes opening many things etc. Having a browser with many open taps open while playing a game or using photo editing program and having a photo viewer open also etc etc. Will that actually make me use those cores or are they still not needed? If anyone can help with this question of mine i would appreciate it.
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Hello, i get that this CPU is great but the question with CPUs with high number of cores and threats etc is if you would actually use them. Otherwise you are better off buying a cheaper CPU with less cores and not waste your money. So i am the kind of user that likes opening many things etc. Having a browser with many open taps open while playing a game or using photo editing program and having a photo viewer open also etc etc. Will that actually make me use those cores or are they still not needed? If anyone can help with this question of mine i would appreciate it.
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