The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Review: AMD's Fastest Gaming Processor

CPU Benchmark Performance: Simulation

Simulation and Science have a lot of overlap in the benchmarking world. The benchmarks that fall under Science have a distinct use for the data they output – in our Simulation section, these act more like synthetics but at some level are still trying to simulate a given environment.

In the encrypt/decrypt scenario, how data is transferred and by what mechanism is pertinent to on-the-fly encryption of sensitive data - a process by which more modern devices are leaning to for software security.

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.

Simulation

Looking at the results of our simulation-based tests, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D once again performs respectably across these tests. We would have expected higher performance in our Factorio benchmark, as the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and its 3D V-Cache did yield some impressive gains. This is likely due to the AMD PPM Provisioning and 3D V-Cache driver opting for frequency over cache when running this benchmark. That does show a little bit of a pitfall here for AMD.