For general desktop usage, the 9950X doesn’t offer much. We saw a performance regression in compression and decompression workloads, only minor improvements in Cinebench and Blender, a small improvement for image editing in applications such as Photoshop, and a tiny improvement for video editing. On the gaming side, the Ryzen 9950X offers 7950X-level performance, which is good overall but also something you could have purchased two years ago.
By TechSpot
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AMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 9950X has the 16-core muscle to fight Intel’s 14th Gen Core i9 CPUs and win. Plus, it’s cheaper than AMD’s last-gen equivalent, the 7950X.
By PCMag
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The Ryzen 9 9950X offers performance improvements across the board and the highest performance available on a mainstream PC platform in multi-threaded workloads. However, it lags behind competing chips in gaming, and the generational gains are small enough in some productivity workloads that the previous-gen Ryzen 9 7950X is an attractive alternative.
By Tom’s Hardware
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For productivity and content creation workloads, the Ryzen 9 9950X is second to none in the desktop market. It’s no slouch in gaming but if that’s all your PC is used for, then there are far cheaper options to go for that perform just as well.
By PCGamer
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Now that all the (expected) AMD Zen 5 processors are released, the Ryzen 9 9950X is likely to remain the flagship for this generation. While a Ryzen 9 9950X3D is anticipated later this year, it’s unlikely to exceed the application performance of the standard 9950X.
By TechPowerUp
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In creative workloads, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X is absolutely the fastest processor on the market right now. However, it does fall behind a bit in gaming, making it hard to recommend to even the most dedicated PC gamer.
By IGN
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All told, we like the Zen 5-based AMD Ryzen 9000 series. These CPUs are generally faster and more efficient then their predecessors, and they arrive at more affordable introductory prices as well. That’s all good stuff that ultimately is a win-win for consumers, though the Ryzen 9000 series doesn’t offer the kind of generational performance leaps we’ve been seen from AMD in the last couple of major processor releases.
By HotHardware
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We’re in a better place with the Ryzen 9 9950X than with the Ryzen 5 and 7 models last week, but the situation is still far from a typical Ryzen launch. At best, they begin to justify choosing them over their Ryzen 7000 counterparts, but only if the price difference isn’t huge and there’s enough of a performance gap, which there often isn’t.
By Forbes
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For now, the Ryzen 9 9950X/9900X seem like fine chips for highly threaded productivity workloads. They’re just not delivering the correct behavior for games. In the meantime, we’ll be continuing to look into the issue, and should AMD deliver an update that fixes Ryzen 9000’s core parking behavior, we will reevaluate these chips accordingly.
By AnandTech
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The only thing I can’t quite understand is the values that AMD gives for the Intel CPUs. Yes, after all the new updates and with different settings it has become significantly less, but I can’t quite get to the bars in the slides. I’ll leave that without comment, but I think it’s a throwback to a long-forgotten marketing comedy in places.
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