alright what's up guys Eber here with Hardware Canucks
ah come on what's are you kidding me guys this is only
good for taking notes man geez you know what forget about the sponsored
stuff you know I have something more exciting which is this right here
the 3950X let's do it we've all been waiting for this day and so have I in
fact after a lot of teases from AMD were finally allowed to talk about the Ryzen
9 3950X performance now I'll be honest with you guys I'm super excited
about this processor because it offers a ton of cores and threads but most
importantly it feels like it hits the final nail in the coffin for intel's
high-end crazy pricing that's because the 3950x goes for around $750 while
offering 32 threads on the X570 platform now that platform is a lot more
affordable compared to X299 and it offers a lot of features compared to
z390 so why don't we get into the performance results
spoiler alert guys this CPU is really and I mean really fast but is it $750
u.s. or almost $1000 Canadian North in let's find out first a quick message
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below alright so I'm gonna get into benchmarks but before that I do want to
talk about the processor and what it's about just in case if you miss our
coverage of it this CPU has 16 cores and 32 threads which equals the threadripper
2950X but it also operates at much higher clock speeds - other than
the smaller cache size the 3950X uses the AM4 socket and X570 platform
the only thing it really lacks is the thread reverse quad-channel memory
support compared to the 3900X it has eight more threads and higher max
boosts clock but the base frequency is also quite a bit lower to TDP is also
the same the issue for some people might be pricing because the 3950X goes
for 50% more than the 3900X so don't expect the same amount of performance
uplift compared to that processor I think you're really paying a premium for
having the fastest aim for CPU on the planet now I do want to be perfectly
clear about this CPU AMD isn't targeting this for gamers whatsoever in
fact it's really meant for content creators or professionals who would love
to accelerate their workflow without investing huge sums of money into
platforms like X299 or X399 million so with that out of the way I think it's
time to get into the performance results now I do want to mention that we have
replaced our testing procedure in fact we've eliminated a lot of these
synthetic benchmarks and we've replaced them with more real-world use case
scenarios so let's get into it generally all of our test systems are the same
they're using 32 gigabytes of memory clocked at 3600 Hertz GTX 20 atti at
Corsair MP 510 2 terabyte SSD and a corsair ax 860 IPS you all motherboard
specific enhancements were disabled 2 for cooling a knock Toa n hu 12 as
heatsink is always used except for X399 and X299 those are cooled with the
Noctua n hu 14s let's start off with cinnamon and right away
well the 3950X blazes ahead of pretty much everything guys even the 9980XE
and the previous generation threadRipper set image are 20 conveys the same
story too with the new Ryzen 9 leading everything single core
benchmarks show that AMD has made huge improvements with their lightly threaded
performance that's really good news since most professional apps and games
don't fully stress all CPU cores all the time so that's it for our synthetic
tests but now we're gonna move on to some real-world benchmarks and I think
this is where it gets even more interesting starting off with blender
and it really does show how good AMD's news into architecture stacks up against
these super old skylake X architecture used on the 9 & 8
exe remember this is a 32 thread AMD processor literally tied with an Intel
CPU with six threads I'm just gonna let that sink
in for a second Mehta shape is a new program for our
benchmarks it's used for taking thousands of digital images and
combining them to create a 3d data basically it prefers in combination of
core counts and higher sustained clock speeds and that's why we see the 9900KS
KS so competitive but once again the 3950X wins even in reality capture
which is a program that's a lot like meta shape since it also takes a ton of
image data to compile multi-dimensional images it's super CPU intensive and the
3950X is impossible to beat again it even puts the threadripper 2950X to
shame and that is impressive guys now this test is actually one of our most
CPU intensive since in it we're building a version of Firefox for Windows which
processes through more than 10 gigabytes of data here the 2950X wins out by a
bit since its memory bandwidth and cache give it an edge the 9980XE is pretty
competitive too but not for a CPU that costs way more than thousand dollars
handbrake is a pretty solid test for multi-core video transcoding and here
the thread repair dominates again but look at that look at the 3950X it
beats the 9980XEsee again Intel should be pretty worried by now guys Premiere
Pro is an interesting program since it uses the IGP in Intel's coffee like CPUs
to accelerate rendering so the 9900K and KS end up on the top but the 3950X
ends up being the fastest non accelerated CPUs here in DaVinci Resolve
be 9900K gets another narrow win but that's because nearly all of our CPUs
are slightly bottleneck by the graphics card just take that into account before
you assume a super-expensive threadRipper bill will get you better results
right Dmitri all right so now on to gaming performance now I'm gonna go
through these really quickly but there's one thing to keep note of and that is
we've run all of our tests at 1080p but the gap between the CPUs could narrow if
you stepping it up to 1440p or 4k that's because the GPU would be more of a
bottle ink compared to the CPU in all of these games the results are pretty close
together but you can actually see that the 3950X is pretty competitive but the
3900X is actually a better less expensive option if you're building a
gaming focused system main reason for that is the 3900X was
able to maintain higher overall clock speeds in most titles and while it
wasn't by all that much the difference did end up showing up in the charts
another thing that's interesting is AMD has almost closed the gap with Intel
when it comes to gaming performance even when compared to the 9900 k-series
they're not quite there yet but seriously you wouldn't be able to tell
the difference with your naked eyes now something I really wanted to mention is
a bit of an odd claim from AMD that the 3950X was optimized for liquid
cooling and I'm gonna say this right now that's just marketing PS because you
don't really need an all-in-one liquid cooler to cool this processor let me
explain as you can see are not to a Utah less with a single 120 millimeter fan
was able to easily keep up with the NZXT kraken X 62 when cooling the 1350 X
while it was under full load so unless you're looking for a more RGB goodness
I'd recommend you just stick with a very good air cooler switching over to power
consumption you can actually see the 3950X's overall efficiency is a big
reason why it's temperatures are so good all things considered when the CPU is
fully loaded it consumes about the same amount of power as the 3900X and that's
pretty impressive guys alright so I think it's time to wrap up this video I
am genuinely blown away by what AMD was able to deliver with the Ryzen 9950
I mean they literally bought threadripper like performance to the m4 platform
for a fraction of the cost compared to their higher and CPUs
I mean sure $750 is not cheap but it offers an amazing value for content
creators or other folks who love taking advantage of all of those threads and
chewing through their particular workflow but I also want to take a few
seconds to talk about Intel because they are in a lot of trouble
I think aimed he might have purposely sandbagged their early results by
comparing the 3950X to the 9920x because this thing is actually competing
against the 9980XE a processor that was going for a ridiculous $2,000 just a
few months ago this new AMD processor has basically devalued Intel's entire
high-end desktop lineup and I'm talking about the upcoming cascade Lake X here
not be current CPUs the thousand-dollar core I nine ten nine eight
see is only supposed to be a few percent faster than the 9980XE but that
processor was spanked by this guy and that's a very big problem so I guess the
last thing that needs to be accomplished by AMD is to make sure that this
processor is available to buy in stores for $750 because from what we've been
hearing there's going to be very limited quantities of the CPU and that could
potentially lead to price gouging and yeah that could be pretty bad but
otherwise this is all I've got to say to AMD Bravo just well done you've earned I
think I think this is amazing this is just yeah