The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Review: AMD's Fastest Gaming Processor
by Gavin Bonshor on February 27, 2023 9:00 AM ESTCPU Benchmark Performance: Legacy Tests
In order to gather data to compare with older benchmarks, we are still keeping a number of tests under our ‘legacy’ section. This includes all the former major versions of CineBench (R15, R11.5, R10) as well as Geekbench 4 and 5. We won’t be transferring the data over from the old testing into Bench, otherwise, it would be populated with 200 CPUs with only one data point, so it will fill up as we test more CPUs like the others.
We are using DDR5 memory on the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and the other Ryzen 7000 series we've tested. This also includes Intel's 13th and 12th Gen processors. We tested the aforementioned platforms with the following settings:
- DDR5-5600B CL46 - Intel 13th Gen
- DDR5-5200 CL44 - Ryzen 7000
- DDR5-4800 (B) CL40 - Intel 12th Gen
All other CPUs such as Ryzen 5000 and 3000 were tested at the relevant JEDEC settings as per the processor's individual memory support with DDR4.
Legacy
Our legacy testing is exactly what it says on the tin; tests featuring older benchmarks from previous iterations of our CPU suite. These legacy tests still provide a useful reference for where the performance is, even on older workloads. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D also does respectfully in these older benchmarks, albeit behind the Ryzne 9 7950X, which is to be expected.
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achinhorn - Monday, March 6, 2023 - link
This feels like there are gapping holes left to be examined, specifically with the scheduler/drivers and Windows 11.If you do these tests using manual BIOS settings, what changes?
This article is not helping me make a buying decision when I have this article only to compare current CPU offerings and there appear to be issues with the CPU software.
soltys - Monday, March 6, 2023 - link
I'm still wondering how well would this cpu perform having heavy load of both a game and non-game running at the same time - most typical of the latter being e.g. OBS using x264 at medium or slow presets.Would the threads be assigned correctly ? Or would that be a mess as both CCDs would be unparked.