DO NOT BUY: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU Review & Benchmarks | 24 Charts in 24 Hours

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AnthMosk@reddit

Flood of “I just upgraded my 9800x3d to the 9950x3d2” in 3,2,….

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Ramongsh@reddit

That would be insane, but insane people are out there...!

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Trivo3@reddit

I just upgraded my 5700X3D to a 9950x3d2. It didn't fit.

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ag3on@reddit

or 9950x3d to v2, cause why the f not.

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rebelSun25@reddit

Don't but it at full price. If your work will compensate in time saved to deliver said work, then maybe it's worth it.

Most professional work doesn't need it still. It's a vanity cpu. Nice to have but not necessary

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comelickmyarmpits@reddit

It's a top dawg in gaming but for gamers it's ain't worth it , pricing is insane .

270k really looks like balanced in terms of gaming, productivity and pricing, only con is motherboard upgrade is dead

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Gambler_720@reddit

People sleep on the 7900X. It's a great hybrid CPU if you care about platform longevity.

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comelickmyarmpits@reddit

Isn't 7900x is composed of two ccds of 6 cores each? I wonder how much penalty there's cross CCD comunication for both gaming and productivity.

In case of 9950x3d2/9950x3d or 270k atleast top 8 cores are on same side/title/ccd

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Gambler_720@reddit

It's a hybrid CPU as I said. It's gaming performance is really not distinguishable from other Zen 4 CPUs. They all perform relatively the same.

With every generation of AMD CPUs, there are only really 2 tiers of gaming performance. X3D and non-X3D.

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JudgeCheezels@reddit

Then the 270k+ is a better “hybrid” CPU lol.

Yes yes yes, it’s a “dead platform” yiddi yadda yodel argument, but unless you’re absolutely sure you’re upgrading a CPU every 2 years that whole point is moot.

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Two years is absolutely cap. Ryzen 7 1700 was released in March 2017 and Ryzen 7 5800X3D was released in April 2022 (five years). DDR4-2666 is still relevant with X3D CPUs even if a user never took advantage of the nose dive of DDR4 prices in 2023-2024.

Since Intel Core Ultra I've been buying from both blue and red team again, but platform longevity is absolutely relevant.

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loozerr@reddit

If you have to include that example, remember that not many initial AM4 boards got bios upgrades to support 5000 series...

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Creepy_Accountant946@reddit

No

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f1rstx@reddit

i dunno, 7900x probably worst CPU on AM5 platform atm (excluding some APUs)

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lifestealsuck@reddit

I wish I have 32g ddr5 laying around . New intel chip look so good.

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f1rstx@reddit

motherboard upgrade is dead

rly not important

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RumbleTheCassette@reddit

Just depends on the person aka it's subjective.

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TwoCylToilet@reddit

Exactly. I'm a X370 5800X3D enjoyer (living room PC) waiting for my X670 Zen 6 X3D CPU (main rig).

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bizude@reddit

It's a top dawg in gaming but for gamers it's ain't worth it , pricing is insane .

We knew that would be the case before it was released, I seriously don't understand the drama about the limited samples being released to gaming review outlets.

Steve has valid concerns, but he needs to approach AMD with more tact. They are a corporation, and as such their representatives are limited in what they can say.

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timorous1234567890@reddit

This is a niche product. AVX512 workloads and workloads that can take advantage of the cache and also scale across cores and further are independent enough that the cross CCD latency won't hurt performance.

Phoronix and Toms showed a few scenarios where that was the case but they are rare.

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Mister__Mediocre@reddit

If you think 3d is good for a workload, just imagine having two workloads running parallel, one in each ccd. I think the problem is most benchmarks are fairly homogenous, while something like this really shines when your use case is "x workload running in background, y workload running live".

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