AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review: Premiere, Blender, Overclocking, & Gaming CPU Benchmarks

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  • čas přidán 13. 11. 2019
  • We're reviewing the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X CPU today, a 16-core, 32-thread AM4 CPU. We're benchmarking the R9 3950X in Premiere, Photoshop, gaming, power, and overclocking.
    Sponsor: EVGA RTX 2080 Ti XC Ultra (Amazon - geni.us/tebmP)
    AMD R9 3950X LIQUID NITROGEN OC LIVESTREAM AT ~4PM EST 11/14/19 ON THIS YT CHANNEL.
    Article: [publication on a one-day delay]
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    Find AMD's R5 3600 on Amazon: geni.us/zBQMOj
    AMD's 16-core CPU launches today, following-up the 1950X from a few generations ago with what's technically a "mainstream" CPU. Now, of course, the price-point doesn't make it mainstream, but the platform does. A 16-core CPU in a non-HEDT socket is new, and that's what we're dealing with today. You lose quad-channel for the memory, but it's still AMD's new Zen2 architecture on the maxed-out chiplet configuration. In today's testing, we're focusing on running power consumption benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 3000 R9 3950X CPU vs. others, gaming benchmarks on the 3950X vs. 9900K, 3900X, 3600, and more, and production benchmarks. The production benchmarks include Blender, Adobe Premiere (best video editing CPU tests), Adobe Photoshop, and decompression via 7-Zip. Overclocking testing was also done, where we noticed better bins than the 3900X and high achievable all-core overclocks. We'll be overclocking the 3950X with liquid nitrogen later on launch day.
    For the motherboard, we used the Gigabyte X570 Master with F10c and F10a, but performance testing was done on F10c (latest publicly available BIOS as of 11/14/19). Find the X570 Master here: geni.us/3CrEt - the 3950X can work on B450, X470, and X570, provided a sufficient VRM.
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    Editorial, Testing: Steve Burke
    Testing: Patrick Lathan
    Video: Andrew Coleman
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  • @GamersNexus
    @GamersNexus  Před 4 lety +127

    Check out part 2 of our DIY AMD NAS, ft. Level1Techs! czcams.com/video/SqaAmVN4J4A/video.html

    • @whoUthank
      @whoUthank Před 4 lety +1

      Can you try disabling half the cores or smt to see if you can get higher clocks for gaming? 16 threads should be enough for gaming.

    • @MommaMolly
      @MommaMolly Před 4 lety

      Gamersnexus it is contemporary when it comes to equal.

    • @baddog9188
      @baddog9188 Před 4 lety

      Could you test 3950X vs 9900KS (delidded), both OC and with tightened timings, in gaming? And gaming + streaming? Would love to see an absolute best case scenario (without LN2) from both teams, for enthusiast PC gamers.
      Thank you for all the amazing content!

    • @bobhumplick4213
      @bobhumplick4213 Před 4 lety

      yo GN. rockstart says it added -cpuloadrebalancing launch option to RDR2 to help with stalls on 4 and 6 core cpus with nvidia driver. maybe you coudl try and see if this option exists on gta and see if it helps. anyway the patch is out and it seems to help. not saying a retest is in order just maybe if you could mention your thoughts in an ask GN thing or something.

    • @BeardedHardware
      @BeardedHardware Před 4 lety

      And it’s released finally... no more slack!!!

  • @ador250
    @ador250 Před 4 lety +1681

    Can't believe 3 years ago the best mainstream processor was a 4 core 8 thread 7700k, now we have 16 core from AMD.

    • @JAN0L
      @JAN0L Před 4 lety +70

      Moore's law is back!

    • @KillBoyUK
      @KillBoyUK Před 4 lety +136

      I'm not sure you can call 750usd mainstream

    • @andreaspatsalides1914
      @andreaspatsalides1914 Před 4 lety +24

      Thats my CPU

    • @KillingTheMost
      @KillingTheMost Před 4 lety +45

      Allah praise AMD

    • @Karlisvoth
      @Karlisvoth Před 4 lety +191

      @@KillBoyUK It's called mainstream simply because it's still a consumer class CPU

  • @brazeiar9672
    @brazeiar9672 Před 4 lety +1780

    I was disappointed that you didn't perform a "drop test" on the CPU. I guess I will have to watch the LTT video for that.

  • @prem3548
    @prem3548 Před 4 lety +31

    26:09 This is just amazing. While having twice as many cores as the 9900K, 3950x pulled only 30w more at most. Simply incredible.

  • @CesarinPillinGaming
    @CesarinPillinGaming Před 4 lety +488

    Its hilarious to see how a 16 core chip on stock still consumes less than intel's 9900KS on stock.

    • @jeeBisOkay
      @jeeBisOkay Před 4 lety +303

      @@maybenot7298 dude chill lol this thing basically matches the 9900k in single thread performance and has literally double the cores
      quit your whining and bootlicking, nobody cares

    • @dallatorretdu
      @dallatorretdu Před 4 lety +85

      @@maybenot7298 "average user" well we need several of those workstation for work and Intel is extremely slow in renders

    • @pyramidschemer4083
      @pyramidschemer4083 Před 4 lety +51

      @@maybenot7298 LoL @you if you think this processor is for the average user

    • @jeeBisOkay
      @jeeBisOkay Před 4 lety +57

      @@maybenot7298 and an average user won't pay over $300 for a cpu

    • @Leo9ine
      @Leo9ine Před 4 lety +50

      @@maybenot7298 AMD has a bigger cock. what can ya do

  • @junkiexl86
    @junkiexl86 Před 4 lety +59

    Within margin of error of the 3900x in games. I'm glad I didn't hold off and pulled trigger on my 3900x. I personally don't do enough non-gaming workflow to justify the price hike. Both chips are just monsters. I couldn't be happier

    • @joek81981
      @joek81981 Před 4 lety

      Same. I was worried I'd be upset when - not 2 months after I got thee best am4 part ever, ever - another, even bester part comes out for a small amount more money.
      Almost had preemptive buyers remorse. But now I don't!

    • @junkiexl86
      @junkiexl86 Před 4 lety +6

      @@joek81981 Seeing that the 3950X is trading blows with the 9980XE in multi-threaded workflow, I'm really curious now to see what 3rd Gen TR brings to the table.

    • @joek81981
      @joek81981 Před 4 lety +7

      What a game, right? I say it a lot here in the comments, but it deserves repeating.
      This is a golden age for computers-people. Great time to be a PC gearhead.

    • @aj0413_
      @aj0413_ Před 4 lety +1

      Personally, I'm very interested in disabling an entire chiplet to try mimicking an intel 8c/16t for some games and apps; some things don't like the zen arch

    • @junkiexl86
      @junkiexl86 Před 4 lety

      @@aj0413_ True but even in those fringe cases the difference isn't that massive esp if not comparing it to the 9900K/KS

  • @wherearethepies9043
    @wherearethepies9043 Před 4 lety +187

    I love that all of the reviews came out seconds from each other, but I came to you first, Steve.

    • @sdj33
      @sdj33 Před 4 lety +5

      steve> all

    • @TiagoMorbusSa
      @TiagoMorbusSa Před 4 lety +1

      Of course we come to Steve's first, duh!

    • @Mi2Lethal
      @Mi2Lethal Před 4 lety +1

      @@sdj33 both steves > all

    • @vawx-
      @vawx- Před 4 lety +3

      Watching GN last.
      I'm the save the best for the last guy.

    • @TheNaz01
      @TheNaz01 Před 4 lety

      COMMITTED FANS LETS GO!

  • @BSEUNHIR
    @BSEUNHIR Před 4 lety +291

    I would have liked to see Intel HEDT power draw also in the chart, to demonstrate how much worse they are in performance/watt. Maybe next time.

    • @GamersNexus
      @GamersNexus  Před 4 lety +119

      We'll have it in X-Series benchmarks for the 10980XE.

    • @coachnutt61
      @coachnutt61 Před 4 lety +23

      I saw where the 9900ks was 400+Watts total system draw and the 3950x was around 260+Watts total system draw.

    • @LeReVaQ
      @LeReVaQ Před 4 lety +7

      LTT did a test like that. Check their vid

    • @joek81981
      @joek81981 Před 4 lety +6

      Holy smokes is that correct?!? 400 vs 260?

    • @saeedatenzi
      @saeedatenzi Před 4 lety +6

      @@coachnutt61 HOLY mother of power draw O.o 400 watts?! now imagine the heat generated.

  • @ThisIsAVeryBadIdea
    @ThisIsAVeryBadIdea Před 4 lety +2

    Y'Know, even though the introduction is very factual and "dry", I can hear the anticipation and excitement from you!
    This processor is so cool, because AMD not only as the underdog made something competitive, they made something for a market that definitely exists and pushes huge boundaries, leaving the ball in everybody else's court.

  • @simonh317
    @simonh317 Před 4 lety +336

    TL:DR - Intel entire HEDT range is now pointless, thanks to AMD and this desktop CPU

    • @tarkett8529
      @tarkett8529 Před 4 lety +9

      Unless you specifically need extra pcie lanes

    • @TheNaitsyrk
      @TheNaitsyrk Před 4 lety +5

      Well, 9980XE was consistently above 3950X. In gaming also. If someone buys 9980XE etc and doesn't OC then wtf.

    • @simonh317
      @simonh317 Před 4 lety +67

      @@TheNaitsyrk $2000 vs $500 AMD , as i said, makes HEDT pointless

    • @Giuseppetm99
      @Giuseppetm99 Před 4 lety +4

      @@simonh317 lel

    • @FirminoNeto
      @FirminoNeto Před 4 lety +18

      @Warm Soft Kitty only if you buy 1000+ processors.

  • @eyetvideos467
    @eyetvideos467 Před 4 lety +200

    Steve, you get the first click my friend. Trust your opinions over all others!

    • @eyetvideos467
      @eyetvideos467 Před 4 lety +5

      @@LycanWitch haha I watched LTT right after this one. Sometimes LTT does some wacky things in their reviews which is cool and entertaining but I watch GN first to get his almost as unbiased as they come opinion before I get all hyped up by Linus (no disrespect to papa Linus either btw)

  • @155Bojan
    @155Bojan Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you GN for always providing unbiased and informative videos, appreciate the time and effort!

  • @spork8655
    @spork8655 Před 4 lety

    Thank you for including the 7700k on your charts. It just came out in 2017, but I can hardly EVER find it in any other channel's comparison charts.
    It's a big help for those of us poor creatures who needed an upgrade right before the Core Wars started.

  • @mauriceh7558
    @mauriceh7558 Před 4 lety +31

    This old man remembers when the phrase "wintel" was coined, the king is dead, long live the king!

    • @SIPEROTH
      @SIPEROTH Před 4 lety +5

      @T R The problem with Intel is their entitled prices. Even when AMD was kicking their ass with Athlon 64, those Pentium 4 oven machines were still sold at high prices.
      I believe that entitled pricing policy comes from their high idea of their own name(a little how Apple thinks they can charge too hell just because their logo is on a product).
      So people kind of feel happy when AMD are kicking their asses because they need some humility lessons as to start pricing at what they offer and stop thinking their shit are made of gold.

    • @voided76
      @voided76 Před 4 lety

      @T R Waaaaay ahead too.
      Right up until the FX-60/70 started demanding really big money. :(
      Then I was sorta happy to see the Core2duo/Quad ect come out.

    • @voided76
      @voided76 Před 4 lety

      @T R
      I was still a basement nerd with a socketA Barton 2500/3200 when those benchmarks were getting done.
      my first big boy system was a Phenom II 940 w/a 4870 1gigger... what a joy that was for it's time. it lasted through 3 different video cards and then spent 3 years serving mom movies on demand at her house before my brother turned it on w/o the heatsink one day while servicing it. :( rip.

  • @MichaelPate-michaelkpate
    @MichaelPate-michaelkpate Před 4 lety +243

    "Let's close this out with Total War." - I thought that was what the entire video was about.

    • @ItReallyIsiPOD
      @ItReallyIsiPOD Před 4 lety +5

      @@imadecoy. Nah. Total War is just poorly optimized. If a TW game could make use of 16-cores we could have 20 000 unit battles.

    • @Disobeyedtoast
      @Disobeyedtoast Před 4 lety +1

      @@imadecoy. then why do you watch them if you don't agree with their testing?

    • @xN1k94x
      @xN1k94x Před 4 lety +1

      @@imadecoy. I think he sarcastically referred to this cpu as being the beginning of a total war against intel

    • @solarstrike33
      @solarstrike33 Před 4 lety

      @Dex4Sure The Linux versions use Vulkan...

    • @Smartcom5
      @Smartcom5 Před 4 lety

      _Oh boy, how mistaken you are!_ That was just a grazing shot, although it's a pretty lethal one already - we'll see if it's killing it.
      If not, there ought to be some blood bath later in the month …
      Since *if* it wasn't so… _Phew_ I guess, jacking up cores again, The Ripper™ just threats coming for a third (and probably final) time and will most definitely kill the heart of Intel's HEDT pretty fast. It's just that Intel had to decide whether or not taking some narcotics for the sake of numbness beforehand - or actually really wanted to attend TR3's bloodbath in person. Seems with that price-cut Intel issued lately they just took the pill, to make it less bloody.
      Since AMD is still carrying their youngest baby yet - and it seems to be a huge-grown!

  • @JhustineProvido
    @JhustineProvido Před 4 lety

    Damn what happened subscribers were like 20k now it’s so big! Congrats GN

  • @WeencieRants
    @WeencieRants Před 4 lety

    Thank you for adding the R5 1600 into the benchmark for RDR2!! I just bought it and am running a 1080ti and have been worried about the performance but I’m happy to see I’ll be able to achieve 60fps easily with minimal cpu bottleneck

  • @SirNickyT
    @SirNickyT Před 4 lety +92

    Am i the only person that makes the GN open noise along with it at the start of every of video? I can't resist it. I've tried

  • @SaccoBelmonte
    @SaccoBelmonte Před 4 lety +55

    I'm amazed you guys talk about all core OC, but don't expand on the potential of Per CCX OC to get a good blend of fast cores and slow cores, then use Process lasso to set affinities so all background tasks run on the slow cores. That's what I do on my 3900X 4.5/4.4/4.375/4.375 at 1.331V LLC3 (1.306 vdroop) and is golden!
    Not that I do, but you can also soft disable SMT in Process lasso. This program has become very relevant now with high core count CPUs

    • @AstralS7orm
      @AstralS7orm Před 4 lety +2

      Yes, could use a benchmark of this solution vs hardware enablement. Especially now with those Windows 10 1909 CPU scheduling changes.

    • @MrRourk
      @MrRourk Před 4 lety

      You need to put a resume together and hit buyers of new Tencent Epyc.

    • @ghoulbuster1
      @ghoulbuster1 Před 4 lety +2

      How interesting, you can have high power cores and low power cores similar to a phone CPU's?
      I want to see how this benchmarks

    • @fardnia9434
      @fardnia9434 Před 4 lety

      Sacco Belmonte I dont really trust ProcessLasso, I feel like people think it's just some magical program that will instantly set affinities and increase performance

    • @SaccoBelmonte
      @SaccoBelmonte Před 4 lety

      @@fardnia9434 It does no harm. I have been using it since I got my 3900X and is more benefit than anything else. I don't use ProBalance though.

  • @Rexolaboy
    @Rexolaboy Před 4 lety +1

    The single core boost behavior is much improved since this video came out. Kind of amazing actually.

  • @davis7323
    @davis7323 Před 3 lety

    Great video, very knowledgeable and speak very well regarding the material!

  • @ThunderKat
    @ThunderKat Před 4 lety +30

    What about streaming? CPU encoding while gaming is a good reason to invest in high core count.
    I can easily render videos with a 4 core CPU, just take x3 the time.
    But when it comes to streaming definitely can't use X264 encoding at a decent quality for streaming for lack of cores :P

  • @kevenharvey9711
    @kevenharvey9711 Před 4 lety +60

    Dropping SMT would make more sense IMO than to drop some cores for those troublesome games.

    • @YoungSiJAYS
      @YoungSiJAYS Před 4 lety

      3950 without X is still possible

    • @ole7736
      @ole7736 Před 4 lety +9

      Dropping one chiplet/CCD (8 cores) would make sense to remove inter-CCD communication over the infinity fabric.

    • @TheVillainOfTheYear
      @TheVillainOfTheYear Před 4 lety +6

      @@ole7736 this. On a monolithic die, disable SMT. On multiple chiplet design, disable a CCD to reduce latency.

    • @aj0413_
      @aj0413_ Před 4 lety

      @@TheVillainOfTheYear Why I'm heavily eyeing switching to be honest

    • @nathangamble125
      @nathangamble125 Před 4 lety +6

      @@TheVillainOfTheYear We can clearly see from the benchmarks in this video that the 3900X is often much faster with SMT off (beating the 3950X in Civ 6 and GTA V), but for some reason they didn't try the 3950X with SMT off.

  • @averagebro413
    @averagebro413 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks AMD for progress!
    I got ryzen 5 2600x and i love it so much

  • @MrAtthedrivein925
    @MrAtthedrivein925 Před 4 lety

    Fantastic content as always!!

  • @Maxime-ho9iv
    @Maxime-ho9iv Před 4 lety +14

    The real lesson here is that developpers seriously need to code for multi-core multi-thread CPUs now.
    It's looking like we're still in the dark age with single core frequency being so important.

    • @johnterpack3940
      @johnterpack3940 Před 4 lety +2

      Nobody took AMD seriously when they started upping the core count. Now that Intel has had to follow suit to play catch-up I bet we'll see devs making changes.

    • @Maxime-ho9iv
      @Maxime-ho9iv Před 4 lety

      John Terpack I really hope so!

    • @JohnVanderbeck
      @JohnVanderbeck Před 4 lety +4

      They already are but it takes time for the cycles to come to fruition. The next few years will see a lot more shipped games taking better advantage of core counts, and within 5 years it will be almost universal.

    • @Spido68_the_spectator
      @Spido68_the_spectator Před rokem

      No point supporting more cores if optimisation is garbage. See cyberpunk 2077

  • @EmblemParade
    @EmblemParade Před 4 lety +3

    80% performance is "not bad for half the cores". Gotta love Steve's understated commentary. :)

  • @hairycoo56
    @hairycoo56 Před 4 lety

    More quality content from the Bob Ross of the tech world. Fascinating insight, a reassuring voice and, of course, wonderful hair 😉

  • @meteormedia7021
    @meteormedia7021 Před 4 lety +2

    27:49 THANK YOU Steve! At least one objective reviewer left.

  • @GeoffSeeley
    @GeoffSeeley Před 4 lety +7

    This video needed Snowball as this CPU looks like it's the cat's meow!

  • @felipemello1151
    @felipemello1151 Před 4 lety +82

    GN is more technical. Linus is more enjoyable. I feel that with linus I am watching a story. Its engaging. There's a progression and excitement. At GN I feel like it is a technician giving a review, which is also good. Different approaches, but it's interesting to compare.

    • @juanme555
      @juanme555 Před 4 lety +9

      Its the difference between a JESUS and a Mapple Leaf.

    • @BeardedHardware
      @BeardedHardware Před 4 lety +3

      Better to go hardcore ;)

    • @FuncleChuck
      @FuncleChuck Před 4 lety +1

      Sovietbird agreed. Those 3 are THE channels to watch to get a balance. There are several others that go way more technical, or way more niche on gaming or rumors, but LTT + HUB + GN usually covers everything worth seeing.

    • @BeardedHardware
      @BeardedHardware Před 4 lety +1

      Aurora Niloufer what about me Hahahah guys crack me up slackers

    • @smakusdod
      @smakusdod Před 4 lety +2

      Hair > earrings. Sorry.

  • @the-alien-paul4491
    @the-alien-paul4491 Před 4 lety

    I liked when you put timestamps to the videos :)

  • @ZZstaff
    @ZZstaff Před 4 lety

    Excellent review!!

  • @Pixel_FX
    @Pixel_FX Před 4 lety +87

    "AMD is Equal Dog"
    - Tech Jesus 2019/11

    • @xxJOKeR75xx
      @xxJOKeR75xx Před 4 lety +3

      AMD is up to par or better in performance BUT Intel still has a much much bigger bank, so it's gonna be a while until AMD is really equal dog...if they can keep this up.

    • @Pixel_FX
      @Pixel_FX Před 4 lety

      @@xxJOKeR75xx yeah they'll need to keep making faster chips for at least another two years.

    • @0s0sXD
      @0s0sXD Před 4 lety

      ROFLMAO

    • @Stedman75
      @Stedman75 Před 4 lety +1

      TECH JESUS! LMAO

  • @timothyandrewnielsen
    @timothyandrewnielsen Před 4 lety +3

    Virtual Machine usage could really make this my next CPU. I need to have fast VMs running 50% of the time.

  • @osgrov
    @osgrov Před 4 lety

    Great review, good job guys!
    I was hoping to find a Handbrake benchmark, though. Would you please add that back for future tests?

  • @camaro8570
    @camaro8570 Před 4 lety +4

    Please consider an Overclocked 8700k to 5 ghz for ur futture CPU testing
    for the future, many of us 6c12t Gamers want to know where we are
    standing in 2019/20. Thank u for u work :)

  • @teddygoboom1
    @teddygoboom1 Před 4 lety +4

    Holy shit I had no idea this was coming out today

  • @peterpain6625
    @peterpain6625 Před 4 lety

    Great review as always. Temperature in the frequency-graphs would be nice tough ... Just for reference.

  • @Vankar1942
    @Vankar1942 Před 4 lety +1

    AMD is now the great equalizer now which is a good thing for everyone! Great video as always Steve and Gamers Nexus as always yall have the best info keep it up!

  • @ole7736
    @ole7736 Před 4 lety +3

    I'd love to see OC results with SMT off. Just out of curiosity. Less work means less power means less temperature means lower voltage needed means (somewhat) higher frequency.

  • @fragger56
    @fragger56 Před 4 lety +68

    Steve, I think you and Wendell need to get together again and do a deep dive on both your 3950x chips, his results show his stock 3950x performing on par with his 4.8ghz 7980xe meanwhile yours seems to be way behind.
    There must be some major silicon variance involved or some wierd HW/SW issue at play here...

    • @Bobis32
      @Bobis32 Před 4 lety +4

      i would bet its with the update to the windows scheduler that released recently allowing wendel to have his chip in the lead

    • @fragger56
      @fragger56 Před 4 lety +4

      @@Bobis32 in that case it might be a good idea to test with 1usmus' ryzen power plan as it is supposed to give similar performance to the new windows update by partially fixing the scheduling issue

    • @GamersNexus
      @GamersNexus  Před 4 lety +22

      @@Bobis32 We are testing with the newest Windows version.

    • @ClammyCement
      @ClammyCement Před 4 lety +3

      Zen 2 is very sensitive to a lot of things, e.g., temperatures, RAM/IF clock speed. Different cooling, different cases, different RAM could all make these results vary noticeably.

    • @fragger56
      @fragger56 Před 4 lety +7

      Sounds like an even better reason for another collab vid then, cause there seems to be a pretty big performance Delta here

  • @JanDanielSCortez
    @JanDanielSCortez Před 4 lety

    Dang, that transition to your store at 12:51 would make even impress even Linus.

  • @cijoykjose
    @cijoykjose Před 4 lety

    As always you are best.. 😍

  • @hccwarriordan5475
    @hccwarriordan5475 Před 4 lety +80

    "Blender Render", say that 3 times fast. If you cant drink some nitrogen...

  • @Bryan-T
    @Bryan-T Před 4 lety +7

    I have a few questions so forgive me laziness as I'm sure these are mentioned in the video.
    Is this with the newest windows update? From what I read it comes with improvements to the scheduler.
    Will you bench some games with SMT turned off? 32t is obviously overkill for games.
    Have you seen the custom power plan by 1usmus? Perhaps it's not needed anymore with the newest windows update.

    • @francescop1
      @francescop1 Před 4 lety +1

      first impressions i've seen around seem to show that the upcoming update doesn't really have an effect in the real world, whereas the 1usmus powerplan seems to actually help with 3-5% gains in single thread workloads.

    • @HemeHaci
      @HemeHaci Před 4 lety

      The whole cpu is overkill for games anyway.

    • @ole7736
      @ole7736 Před 4 lety

      I'd love a separate video about 3950x performance tweaks. Just the right stuff for enthusiasts! :)

  • @krisplanker9640
    @krisplanker9640 Před 4 lety

    Can you guys add the HW News time bars to your benchmark videos moving forward? And maybe teardowns? Not so I can skip around, but to make rewinding easier. The time bars are literally my favorite part about your channel, followed by the OC content, the hardware teardowns, the Jensen teardowns, and then Snowflake.

  • @nikomakinen3812
    @nikomakinen3812 Před 4 lety

    I hope you could test new Arctic liquid freezer ii coolers someday. Nice quality review as always keep up the great work tech jesus

  • @dogdie147
    @dogdie147 Před 4 lety +5

    Thank you, Tech Jesus

  • @knexfan100
    @knexfan100 Před 4 lety +7

    I'm interested to see some numbers in streaming and Davinci Resolve.

  • @Setteegang
    @Setteegang Před 4 lety +1

    Would be nice to see Digital Audio Workstation benchmarks. Thanks for the review.

  • @hill160881
    @hill160881 Před 4 lety

    I really hope amd is able to get there clocks up as time goes by and newer generations are developed. It would be insane to see the 16 core chip run at 5.0ghz all cores some day.

  • @FAHRENHEITDELIO
    @FAHRENHEITDELIO Před 4 lety +36

    I remember when Intel charge
    2017 $1000 for 8 core CPUs
    2019 $950 for 18 core CPUs
    2020 $500 for 18 core CPUs
    In the future at this rate, it will happen.
    2020 amd will make out more cores. and intel will have to compete or lose more market

    • @godtiermedic
      @godtiermedic Před 4 lety +9

      The best part is th4 games will start going all out with support for high multithreads

    • @Calyptico
      @Calyptico Před 4 lety

      They can afford to lose a bit more marketshare, and most likely won't (much) in the more profitable ones. AMD is pretty much at max production capacity already and has no real way to ramp it up. Something Intel is investing in given the shortages.
      Not a good thing for consumers.

    • @JoaoKho
      @JoaoKho Před 4 lety +3

      So, it's good to keep AMD there for pressing Intel processor pricing. Buyers Winning!!

    • @violent8931
      @violent8931 Před 4 lety

      Not good for consumers.. LoL

    • @Slyizable
      @Slyizable Před 4 lety

      @@Calyptico That's why Intel has so many paperlaunches.

  • @nietschecrossout550
    @nietschecrossout550 Před 4 lety +9

    12:55 That was one Linus Sebastian like self promo Segway. Duuuudde

    • @DSDSDS1235
      @DSDSDS1235 Před 4 lety +1

      You mean maple syrup smooth transitions

  • @hobomnky
    @hobomnky Před 4 lety

    ty for setting the standard for the most scientific reviews on youtube among tech reviewers

  • @wibblewobble1934
    @wibblewobble1934 Před 4 lety +1

    I wish audio work would get mentioned in these tests. Indeed music production is probably one of the best tests for a processor, as it stresses it to the max but in realtime performance, which when working with music needs to be glitch-free at all times, no clicks or pops, unlike offline renders which just crunch the numbers.

  • @ericgeneric5548
    @ericgeneric5548 Před 4 lety +65

    Fan settings:
    Red fans - excited
    Blue fans - salty

  • @allenjunge4127
    @allenjunge4127 Před 4 lety +22

    No compile test? I would have loved to see how Zen 2 performs in compilation

    • @GamersNexus
      @GamersNexus  Před 4 lety +12

      We dropped the GCC benchmark because it's just a cache benchmark. If we can figure out a better one, it'll come back.

    • @TheBIOSStar
      @TheBIOSStar Před 4 lety

      I think there is a series of articles on XDA Developers for compiling AOSP (and possibly other things?).

    • @tarfeef_4268
      @tarfeef_4268 Před 4 lety +2

      @@GamersNexus personally I'd be interested in compilation of say, tensorflow. Something like this hub.docker.com/repository/docker/tarfeef101/tflow-builder

    • @mapesdhs597
      @mapesdhs597 Před 4 lety +4

      @@GamersNexus Is that GCC test a realistic test though? If so then it's still relevant. A large cache is a potent way to offset latency; if AMD is going down that route then the fact that GCC benefits from such a design decision is surely the whole point of why the large cache is there. Seems a bit odd to drop a test because it sits in cache, when enabling a task to sit in cache is the whole reason why the cache is so big. To extend the logic to the extreme, if AMD released something with 16GB L1, would all tasks be dropped? ;)

    • @archades9699
      @archades9699 Před 4 lety +1

      @@GamersNexus It seems really hard to find compilation benchmarks for CPUs. For this CPU in particular, I think it's important to have them since people are buying this CPU for work and would love to know what really matters. A caching benchmark to me seems pretty awesome. It lets people know that clock speed is not the only factor. I write a lot of high performance software and one of the ways we get make faster programs is cache optimization. This is also how console games squeeze out more performance out of known hardware. Here's a video if you want a good example of how game devs goto the extreme for performance (note it's from a C++ talk). czcams.com/video/rX0ItVEVjHc/video.html

  • @titaniummechanism3214
    @titaniummechanism3214 Před 3 lety +1

    Competition is good for everybody. I heard Linus say it years ago and I repeat it all the time because it is just so true.

  • @alwync3253
    @alwync3253 Před 4 lety +2

    I would love to see you arrange the FPS charts according to the "0.1% low", which is a far more accurate measure of smoothness than average FPS. In fact, I wonder why AMD didn't use this metric instead of average FPS. The 3950x appears far more competitive against even the best Intel CPU if we compare the "0.1% low" performance instead.

  • @mkiss73
    @mkiss73 Před 4 lety +28

    I thought the max advertised single core boost was 4.7 GHz, not 4.6?

    • @quint999
      @quint999 Před 4 lety +5

      Yes it should be? I checked the Amd site as wondered if it had changed to 4.6 following all the boost fiasco , but its still 4.7 per Amds website.

    • @jagdeeprana7504
      @jagdeeprana7504 Před 4 lety +2

      It does

    • @JROCThaGreat
      @JROCThaGreat Před 4 lety +1

      He just hit bad on the silicone lottery, other people are going 4.7 pretty easily

    • @mkiss73
      @mkiss73 Před 4 lety

      @@JROCThaGreat That may be true, but the max boost listed on AMD's website is 4.7 GHz.

  • @LinusBerglund
    @LinusBerglund Před 4 lety +5

    Are there any reasons except "low interest" for not doing compilation benchmarks? The increase in L3 caches has been making me happy, since I have found that to be one of the most important parameters.
    Say, a Linux or chromium compilation would make me very happy.

    • @timothygibney159
      @timothygibney159 Před 4 lety

      Agreed. For tech Jesus Adobe I'd important but software developers, virtualization engineers, engineers, and even statisticians use CPUs like this. Intel also has other advantages too like Intel RST real time storage and raid. Someone doing video work will want many tbs of storage with Adobe where if you have 4 ssds Intel has an advantage in I/0 and express lanes as 3950 has cut them

  • @jonlockhart8436
    @jonlockhart8436 Před 4 lety +1

    I know this would be a stretch request but I'd love to see some work load tests an things beyond imaging type work. I am a systems engineer and design FPGAs and utilize a lot of cross-compilation for arm. Vivado and make use a lot of threads and cores when before building for their respective architectures respectively. I'd love to see how processors like these perform on work loads like these.
    Thanks for all the work you do GN.

    • @nikolausluhrs
      @nikolausluhrs Před 4 lety +1

      It tends to be hard to find good benchmarks for engineering loads. One reason I suspect is that all the software costs something in the 4 digits if you get a good deal. If xilinx published a benchmark maybe you could convince some reviewers to use it. I'd love to see HFSS or other FEM software bench marked since they tend to be somewhat transferable between software.

  • @BAdventures
    @BAdventures Před 4 lety

    Good honest review 👍

  • @daemonwhite3740
    @daemonwhite3740 Před 4 lety +7

    Got a question for you, Steve: When gaming alone, that's cool. But what about gaming + Streaming / Recording H264? Main example being twitch streamers, but also gameplay youtubers.
    How much impact does live encoding add to a gaming experience?

    • @koben
      @koben Před 4 lety +2

      Yeah GN used to have that gaming + streaming test. I hope they will do the streaming test.

    • @DSDSDS1235
      @DSDSDS1235 Před 4 lety

      They probably prefer two rigs or nvenc in those scenarios tho

  • @peterderbeste6817
    @peterderbeste6817 Před 4 lety +5

    will you make streaming benchmarks?
    i think this may be a really good cpu for gaming + streaming to twitch, and i likes your dropled frames for both sides graph the last time

    • @ole7736
      @ole7736 Před 4 lety

      Ideally you would find a way to restrict gaming cores to one CCD and streaming cores to the other. E.g. with process lasso. That way you prevent expensive core hopping and inter-CCD talk. Perhaps you could run an streaming VM (virtual machine) on 8 distinct cores, which would be easier to configure (process lasso needs to be set up for each game individually, iirc).

    • @bas2085
      @bas2085 Před 4 lety

      @@ole7736 process lasso is great, but a huge pain in the butt to configure

    • @ole7736
      @ole7736 Před 4 lety

      @@bas2085 That is true. What about a VM (virtual machine) for streaming (hardware pass through of a capture card) that hogs one CCD? Should work for all games/titles without any configuration after everything is set up.

    • @Stagmuffins
      @Stagmuffins Před 4 lety +1

      If you're streaming just use an Nvidia GPU with nvenc. There is very little performance loss using it even when using a "weak" CPU.

    • @ole7736
      @ole7736 Před 4 lety

      @@Stagmuffins Sure, for low to mid-tear streaming setups, that is a very good solution. Professionals probably want higher quality.

  • @spacecommanderbear
    @spacecommanderbear Před 4 lety +1

    R9 Ryzen processors are a beast especially for computer work loads.
    Still a happy camper with my golden silicon R7 1700.

  • @RngmonsterX
    @RngmonsterX Před 4 lety

    Hey Steve, your Hair looks awesome in this video again. ♥

  • @deathdoor
    @deathdoor Před 4 lety +24

    Hardware Unboxed noticed that Adobe wasn't really using four of the cores.

    • @TristanPope
      @TristanPope Před 4 lety +23

      Adobe considers AMD to be subpar for it's software and doesn't optimize for it. I have a link to a thread where they completely blow off the 3000 series as being viable for workflow over intel. It is crazy.

    • @pantzman
      @pantzman Před 4 lety +1

      @@TristanPope If you have it, why not just put it in here?

    • @TristanPope
      @TristanPope Před 4 lety +11

      @@pantzman I didn't wanna throw links on someone elses video but here ya go: community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/iPhone-11-Pro-4k-60FPS-HEVC-will-not-work-in-Adobe-Premiere-CC/m-p/10736475#M237073

    • @RiceCubeTech
      @RiceCubeTech Před 4 lety +10

      Tristan Pope this is ridiculous for adobe to pull this. Read through the whole thread. It’s amazing they don’t even have one Ryzen system. You’d think adobe would want to save money and switch their test models to cheaper yet faster Ryzen systems. Imagine a company being that stuck in their ways.

    • @timothygibney159
      @timothygibney159 Před 4 lety +2

      Adobe uses Intel's compiler and 95% of corporate users stick with Intel who are there customers. Also Apple is an Intel shop with most Photoshop users being Mac fanatics. Intel c compiler is both on Mac and PC which makes porting easier.

  • @Enigma1336
    @Enigma1336 Před 4 lety +7

    I'm curious how the 3950X would hold up against a 9900KS in gaming in a real world scenario when you got a handful of launchers, discord, bittorrent, web browser with a bunch of tabs and other stuff running in the background.

    • @Asdayasman
      @Asdayasman Před 4 lety +1

      BitTorrent? Why would gamers be downloading Linux ISOs?

    • @paul2609
      @paul2609 Před 4 lety +3

      Looks like someone is a torrent user here.

    • @Rayer24
      @Rayer24 Před rokem

      more cores is better

  • @Coeniephoto
    @Coeniephoto Před 4 lety

    ahh some new tech to review..refreshing

  • @sitaroartworks
    @sitaroartworks Před 9 měsíci +1

    3900X is still a beast. My Blender viewport with cycles render is basically in real time, setting the maximum core render viewport to the same number of threads (24). For real time stuff like modeling, UV management, texturing and sculpting a good CPU like Ryzen 9 series and enough RAM is sufficient. For AMD / Linux users: check Core Control utility. It is very useful with CPU profiles (not only GPU) and if you set your Ryzen to "ondemand" consumption, it will work in a very optimized way for your specific workflow. You won't regret it.

  • @sapphie132
    @sapphie132 Před 4 lety +6

    Wait, I'm confused. I thought it was out on the 25th, but Steve said it's getting released today

    • @MrGlutting
      @MrGlutting Před 4 lety +9

      Most likely made the video in preparation for the 25th launch but AMD lifted the embargo early.

    • @sapphie132
      @sapphie132 Před 4 lety +1

      @@MrGlutting That would make sense, you're right

    • @devilmikey00
      @devilmikey00 Před 4 lety +3

      This probably the "soft launch" which is just a nonsense marketing term for "we let reviewers and media release reviews".

    • @cleverja
      @cleverja Před 4 lety +4

      Steve lives 11 days in the future

  • @makifrable
    @makifrable Před 4 lety +30

    Interesting, Zen 2 tends to be behind in average and maximum fps and then in the 1% and 0.1% kicks ass. Funny.

    • @dralord1307
      @dralord1307 Před 4 lety +5

      Higher overall latency but less bottlenecks. so you end up with closer highs and lows

    • @coachnutt61
      @coachnutt61 Před 4 lety +9

      Which gives you a way smoother experience. Even if Intel did say 20-30 fps more than the AMD system it would feel smoother overall.

    • @quajay187
      @quajay187 Před 4 lety

      @KingOfGorillas Yes it will be interesting indeed. It will be more like "ok ok we been jerking around long enough and let amd have there fun but now it's time get serious and send lil brother back down to the minor league" I imagine it will be something like that :)

    • @ismann9148
      @ismann9148 Před 4 lety

      @@quajay187 Doesn't look that way.

    • @ghoulbuster1
      @ghoulbuster1 Před 4 lety +1

      @@quajay187 hope that happens before they reuse that 14 nm LUL

  • @tylerz3975
    @tylerz3975 Před 4 lety +1

    Can you include tests for streaming/recording while gaming? That seems like a really common use case for processors like this. Would love to see how it compares to stuff like 10900k

  • @ralphbarnes9335
    @ralphbarnes9335 Před 4 lety

    Great benchmarks

  • @Kaelygon
    @Kaelygon Před 4 lety +39

    "We're the hipsters using blender"
    But still not using 2.8

  • @hylogibbon
    @hylogibbon Před 4 lety +7

    Are all these benchmarks done with CPU-exploit fixes in place? Eg: Meltdown, Spectre, Zombieload.

    • @ps2232
      @ps2232 Před 4 lety +1

      If memory serves, Steve has stated in an older video that all tests are done with all AMD exploits and Intel exploit patches and fixes installed up to the date of the test.

    • @hylogibbon
      @hylogibbon Před 4 lety +1

      @@ps2232 I see. So it's likely that all the catching up AMD has been doing, is at least partially due to Intel's fault at being more vulnerable, requiring patches that lower their CPU performance via software.

  • @stopthefomo
    @stopthefomo Před 4 lety +2

    Please add DaVinci Resolve Studio in your productivity suite because its approach to CPU usage is uniquely different than Premier and is one of the fastest growing video editing tools out there

  • @MLGJuggernautgaming
    @MLGJuggernautgaming Před 4 lety

    First review I always watch because you cuts cut through the crap and don’t skimp on numbers. These other channels just show the bare minimum of benchmarks and pad the video time to 10min

  • @startedtech
    @startedtech Před 4 lety +2

    Hey, no tape on the CPUs this time!

  • @F5alconsHouse
    @F5alconsHouse Před 4 lety +3

    finally my 480mm loop will actually be worth it, maybe I need to upgrade to dual 480 to be overkill.

    • @dogdie147
      @dogdie147 Před 4 lety +1

      Wtf are you going to do with those custom water cooled rigs ? Running earth simulator ?

    • @jondonnelly4831
      @jondonnelly4831 Před 4 lety

      480mm dedicated to cpu shud be plenty.

    • @cleverja
      @cleverja Před 4 lety

      yeah this should put your 480mm to work. Gonna be fun

  • @TheVerrm
    @TheVerrm Před 4 lety

    You guys miss to mention how much faster desktop 3950x is then workstation Threadripper 1950x that we drooled over not that long ago. Astonishing!

  • @ScottyMcAdam
    @ScottyMcAdam Před 4 lety +1

    Hey guys I'd love to see an updated list of performance with the updated Adobe suite. Maybe a Adobe 2018 vs 2019

  • @giovannip.1433
    @giovannip.1433 Před 4 lety +4

    Adobe and AMD need to spend a bit of money to optimise their software for the hardware - otherwise competing products will impact on Adobe going forward...

  • @theenhancer
    @theenhancer Před 4 lety +4

    It would be nice to see what kind of improvements the 3950X would get with Ryzen-optimized RAM speeds, i.e 3600MHz CL16 or 3733MHz CL15, as I imagine anyone spending $750 USD on this CPU would have no issues spending extra for the best RAM.

    • @donutvampire105
      @donutvampire105 Před 4 lety +1

      Exactly, they even have made videos saying to use 3600 at the least for ryzen, not sure why 3200 was used.

  • @mattakudesu
    @mattakudesu Před 4 lety +1

    This CPU is so damn good that I wish I had a use for it. My next CPU upgrade is definitely going to be AMD.

  • @AgentLokVokun
    @AgentLokVokun Před 4 lety +1

    13:00 -- Remember, The GN Logo Blender Render is getting better in November/December!

  • @PrimeEXE
    @PrimeEXE Před 4 lety +8

    🔥AMD ALL THE WAY!🔥

  • @Mr2tired2care
    @Mr2tired2care Před 4 lety +3

    When running these tests, are you using the latest BIOS versions for Intel’s CPUs? I know there is performance loss to patch the various vulnerabilities

  • @AngryPenguin22
    @AngryPenguin22 Před 4 lety

    Ty for including the 7700k.

  • @Nathan0A
    @Nathan0A Před 4 lety +1

    would like to see some multitasking benchmark suite added, or some heavily modded game benchmarks that are notorious CPU hogs. Something I do frequently is 25-30 chrome tabs open across 2-3 windows on second monitor while running a game on primary monitor. I need to be able to alt-tab frequently and have a chrome canary instance set up with flags to disable tab sleeping so it always acts like I have that window in focus for work stuff.

  • @christianponopp8756
    @christianponopp8756 Před 4 lety +10

    Only when Intel is overclocked and has more cores then it's on top 😂 I don't like charts where overclocked cpus are shown because only very small amout of people will overclock and no companies will overclock cpus.

    • @sciemk8723
      @sciemk8723 Před 4 lety +4

      Most of people who need performance do overclock and they include oc potential when comparing cpus.

    • @LacheanApostate
      @LacheanApostate Před 4 lety +1

      No company? My SI (Digital Storm) sure did overclock for me

    • @cleverja
      @cleverja Před 4 lety +2

      I dont anyone that doesnt overclock. I guess its who you kick it with.

    • @wesw9586
      @wesw9586 Před 4 lety +2

      In a high level enthusiast part, it's definitely a valid comparison. People who want the best performance are going to do it. Now lower parts, no. I doubt the extra frames from overclocking some i5 or a 3400g are gonna come into play but on these 500 dollar and up bits, it matters.
      I just wish the OCd parts were marked in a more quickly visible way. There is a lot of data in these graphs to take in rather quickly

    • @pantzman
      @pantzman Před 4 lety +1

      @@cleverja Pretty much everyone I know are on Intel/Nvidia systems and they dont overclock. I dont know any overclockers in RL.

  • @kaelyn8705
    @kaelyn8705 Před 4 lety +44

    i feel sorry for steve. linus released a video within the same minute as steve yet again steve only has 600 views whereas linus has 6.2k views already! tbh i prefer steve’s content tho😂

    • @eurobeaner
      @eurobeaner Před 4 lety +12

      kaelyn Linus has 10x the subs so the math works out.

    • @DarkLinkAD
      @DarkLinkAD Před 4 lety +5

      Steve started from scratch, Linus started from the top, big difference.

    • @DrearierSpider1
      @DrearierSpider1 Před 4 lety +1

      @@eurobeaner More like 15x. Linus has over 9.5 million to GN's 662k.

    • @blitzhacker6981
      @blitzhacker6981 Před 4 lety +4

      I watched linus first myself, simply put I didn't have alot of time this morning and linus is usually slightly more brief,, and about 5 minutes can be cut out by skipping for 30sec-1min after the segways :P

    • @manspider1833
      @manspider1833 Před 4 lety +10

      @@DarkLinkAD Linus did not start from the top. Wtf is wrong with you???

  • @vasipro
    @vasipro Před 4 lety

    Gamer Nexus, onest and profesional. Thank you!

  • @pfeilspitze
    @pfeilspitze Před 4 lety

    👍 for drawing attention to non-zero-based graphs.

  • @serenity5892
    @serenity5892 Před 4 lety +6

    Let's read graphs!
    Intel (9900K) : Gaming
    AMD (3950X) : Render
    It seems like the bottleneck is most of the time between the monitor and the chair. (see below)

  • @ChessMasterNate
    @ChessMasterNate Před 4 lety +18

    For one type of game this makes a great choice: Chess.

    • @prokeep_chick9922
      @prokeep_chick9922 Před 4 lety +1

      Chess yeah, but I doubt it could run solitare 1080p 60 fps

    • @dxdux
      @dxdux Před 4 lety

      Chess engines will use all the cores you have, but they never use chess engines when testing, hell engines are even good to test overclocking stability!. So sad they always ignore them...

  • @ikarosdream5971
    @ikarosdream5971 Před 4 lety

    Good video!!

  • @NatrajChaturvedi
    @NatrajChaturvedi Před 4 lety +1

    Ever thought of doing a CPU comparison video with "mainstream" enthusiast cards priced between $300-$600? It would be great to see benchmarks of current high end CPU's with GPU's like 2070S, 5700xt, 5700, 2060S... Its a more realistic use case too because obviously not everyone buys $1200+ GPU's even if they buy high-end consumer CPU's!