Summary
AMD has managed to put on the obligatory gaming performance crown again with the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, while also foregoing the usual binge. So there’s no toasting this time, at least not at the power socket. With a lead of up to 9 percentage points (about 6 percentage points without thread optimization), you first create a fait accompli, which should also be aimed at Intel’s Raptor Lake refresh. The hybrid cache solution works surprisingly well in gaming and it is not for nothing that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is still the uncrowned gaming perennial for AMD thrifty people who are still suspicious of AM5 or simply find it too expensive.
The approach with the stacked cache is as smart as it is effective, you have to admit that without envy. The fact that a few games resulted in deductions in the B grade was not a problem. Most things can be touched up and corrected. Nevertheless, AMD once again manages to beat the monolithic Intel Core i9-13900K very impressively in places with an MCM design and the two chiplets. In some situations with a full computing load, it is downright declassifying, especially in terms of efficiency as well.
What has been delivered here deserves my respect. The power consumption is on par with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in gaming and, together with it, it is also by far the most frugal gaming CPU, even in absolute values. If you put that in relation to the performance, Intel currently looks really bad. The rest of the Ryzen 7000 without X3D as well, by the way, you have to stay that honest. In the workstation sector, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is only beaten by the even more frugal Core i5-13600K in terms of power consumption, although the latter is permanently weaker in terms of performance.
The Ryzen 9 7950X3D is by no means a low-priced device with an announced RRP of 789 Euros and is a testament to AMD’s new self-confidence. If you add the adequate base in the form of an X670E or at least X670 board as well as fast DDR5 RAM, then it really gets expensive. But what is the Ryzen 9 7950X3D actually? An explicit gaming CPU with a luxury surcharge for 8 additional cores or rather a smart all-rounder that can do gaming excellently, but not only? When used outside of the gaming universe, partial dropouts can quickly and unexpectedly occur.
In workstation use, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D could only fully convince me in terms of efficiency. Performance, on the other hand, has always been a thing. Except for a few impressive uphills in special applications, it would clearly lag behind the Intel Core i9-13900K on average, which still offers the better (but unfortunately also significantly more power-hungry) package in total from all application areas there. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D simply lacks an easy-to-use option to assign applications to the optimal CCD as a user.
With some personal effort and knowledge, this is of course even possible during operation, but the effort is simply not plausible on a production system and cannot be explained to anyone. This really must also be easier! Internal testing with AutoCAD, Maya and 3ds Max shows that manual tinkering could improve performance immensely. It’s just that I refuse to sell my extra overtime as a benchmark. AMD will have to manage that themselves.
That’s why I don’t give the explicit buy tip for the general public, but the Editor’s Choice, because you simply have to appreciate such a piece of brute fast silicon and it is therefore also a subjective verdict, because I find the CPU good. Readers will have to make up their own minds. And family peace is not really permanently secure at AMD either. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D should soon have a very dangerous opponent, at least in the gaming sector.
With the upcoming Ryzen 7 7800X3D (the delay is anything but a coincidence), AMD should brutally steal the thunder from the Ryzen 9 7950X3D here, at least among gamers, because the whole dilemma with the right or wrong CCD should then be elegantly omitted, as it was with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, since there is only one CCD. At the latest then, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D would be rather uninteresting for pure gamers, especially since the smaller CPU should be much cheaper then.
My request to AMD would be, since I find the hybrid concept with the two different CCDs quite interesting: A simple white list program, where you as a user can store your preferred applications, which then explicitly prioritize the CCD with the cache or the one with the higher clock by default. This is certainly not particularly complex, but would offer a really fat added value. Then not only would my peace of mind be restored, but the working population would also be helped. After all, CPUs are not used for gaming. And please: let the board partners simply implement the BIOS options fully, so that the fiddling comes to an end. Thank you.
The Ryzen 9 7950X3D was provided by AMD, just like the other Ryzen 7000 models. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D and all Intel CPUs are from my private inventory and were purchased myself. The motherboard and memory are from retailers or MSI as well as Corsair and, like the CPUs, were only provided on the condition that the lock periods for these products were adhered to. There was no direct or indirect influence or compensation for expenses.
- 1 - Introduction, installation and technical data
- 2 - Chipset, motherboard and test bench
- 3 - Gaming Performance HD Ready (1280 x 720 Pixels)
- 4 - Gaming Performance Full HD (1920 x 1080 Pixels)
- 5 - Gaming Performance WQHD (2560 x 1440 Pixels)
- 6 - Gaming Performance Ultra-HD (3840 x 2160 Pixels)
- 7 - Autodesk AutoCAD 2021
- 8 - Autodesk Inventor 2021 Pro
- 9 - Rendering, Simulation, Financial, Programming
- 10 - Scientific and math workloads
- 11 - Power consumption and efficiency
- 12 - Summary and conclusion
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