Summary
If a product has been successful, then you can write it quietly, even if the circumstances and ways of finding knowledge are not always simple and comprehensible. With the Ryzen 9 3950X AMD has succeeded in a great throw, if you leave out the (current) availability. A whopping 16 cores including 32 threads on a consumer platform are enough for the golden pedestal in the gallery, even if the fat guy sprints against the doped Intel Core i9-9900K(S) with a manageable division of tasks with few active threads often enough draws the shortest.
Performance per thread is significantly lower, but still high enough not to be completely ripped off in the simpler tasks (even 3D real-time output via a potent graphics card). Even if the significantly higher clocked Intel CPUs from the consumer portfolio are still ahead here, the whole thing does not become unplayable or unusable when using the Ryzen 9 3950X. The differences are ultimately also meckers at the highest level and gaming is not everything.
That's why I wrote at the beginning that I don't really see this Ryzen 9 3950X as a gaming CPU, but as a very interesting workhorse for all those who want to do more on the PC than just dadding PUBG or Fortnite. A mid-segment workstation has become more affordable and accessible than ever before, especially since Intel's HEDT platform with the age-old 2066 socket, the sluggish mesh and the tested Skylake X with a newer coat of paint can only save itself from the total fiasco. if the software plays noticeably into the cards and intentionally slows down the competitor CPUs. Because you can't call things like the MKL anything else. This already has the taste of a final struggle, where all means and methods are welcome.
This workstation test shows very impressively that with the current Ryzen CPUs on the previously lost positions (3D workspace, real-time preview) you could at least restore the port and in all the areas where you have always been good (raytracing, computing), scored even further and was able to settle even further. AM4 vs. X299 is 1-0 today, who would have thought that a year ago?
And the small 1151 speedsters salt AMD's soup even if you have to celebrate few or individual threads with maximum bums. But there is no more to do with the Core i9-9900K(S), which is an ingenious gaming CPU, but is really not suitable for working in many areas. Or to form it with the popular car comparisons: a long rise is the death of every low-volume rotary organ. Torque and cylinder, instead of downsizing and charging.
I would certainly have liked to have opposed the new Threadripper, but amD has unfortunately decided not to take us into account in the test. The upcoming availability in retail after 25/11/2019 also tends towards zero, so that while some of Asus' TRX40 boards are already swirling around for validation, the few threadripper samples are engraved, pure Evaluation patterns are not retail goods, which, in addition, may not be issued to testers who have not been personally briefed on AMD's instructions. Even a purchase is likely to fail for the time being, because if even industry giants can only order in the double-digit range (if at all), then that does not bode well until the end of 2019. Or, in the words of a rather depressed motherboard manager: "The 1st batch is only for NPRP".
Conclusion
As a pure gaming CPU, I wouldn't recommend the Ryzen 9 3950X to anyone, but there are also the whole Ryzen 7. But at the latest, when you need real computing power, such a Ryzen 9 3950X is the very first choice, no matter how often Intel repaints the HEDT-Bolds. X299 finally needs new CPUs and no iterations with homeopathic performance improvements, so you can still justify the price. Because just about performance you can easily forget that. More needs to come.
The EIA of EUR 819 is only the beginning of a potentially great future. However, the fact that the price could fall in the foreseeable future is still in the stars and I fear the opposite. Now AMD has to get the tricky binning on the line as soon as possible, even if of course the servers are at the top of the priority list.
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