AMD’s first Zen 5 CPU is the ‘monster’ Ryzen 9 9950X

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AMD’s first Zen 5 CPU is the ‘monster’ Ryzen 9 9950X

AMD promises big gains over Intel’s Core i9-14900K.
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The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X is a 16-core, 32-thread CPU, with 80MB of L2+L3 cache and a 5.7GHz boost clock.
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The Ryzen 9 9900X will include 12 cores, 24 threads, and a 5.6GHz boost. Interestingly, it also has a 50-watt lower TDP than the 7900X.
The Ryzen 7 9700X ships with eight cores, 16 threads, and a 5.5GHz boost clock.
Finally, the Ryzen 5 9600X will have six cores and 12 threads, alongside a 5.4GHz max boost.
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AMD is promising gains of up to 56 percent in Blender against Intel’s Core i9-14900K with the new flagship 9950X, and even 21 percent in Cinebench 2024. On the gaming side, AMD’s benchmarks show a 4 percent frame rate bump over the 14900K in games like Borderlands 3, all the way up to 23 percent better performance in Horizon Zero Dawn.
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The four new Ryzen 9000 series CPUs and 5900XT / 5800XT will all launch in July, but AMD isn’t providing pricing for any of the processors yet.
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I am on 5600x so it will be interesting to see the performance jump of 9600x specially when I'll have to spend on new motherboard and RAM kit
 
I will stick to AM4 still as AMD still manufacturing those and with new launch of 5900xt....when that ends will change platform after that which i guess is after 2-3 more years atleast.
 
rockyo27 said:
I will stick to AM4 still as AMD still manufacturing those and with new launch of 5900xt....when that ends will change platform after that which i guess is after 2-3 more years atleast.
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AMD's commitment to such an old platform is one of the best things about current CPU market. I hope they do the same with AM5 as well.
Now if only Intel followed suit.
 
LinkdJay said:
AMD's commitment to such an old platform is one of the best things about current CPU market. I hope they do the same with AM5 as well.
Now if only Intel followed suit.
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Both companies have there own strategies and it seems they will carry on with them, AMD will support there platform and Intel will do opposite.
 
So who else is excited for the release this coming week and the next???

I'm considering replacing my current Zen 2 (3970X) PC with a 9950X build which sadly (for me) will be half the cores but I'll double everything else specs-wise.

Will wait a couple of months though, for two reasons, hopefully prices will drop, plus, I'm waiting for any news/rumours of Zen 5 non-pro Threadrippers in which case I'll just wait some more, if not too far out.
 
r4hul said:
I'm on 5950x thinking if 9950x will be worth it for me or should I wait for 10950x.
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The age-old wisdom that I follow is that you should upgrade either if your current hardware is no longer able to meet the requirements of whatever application you use to a satisfactory degree, or if newer hardware has very tangible and worthwhile improvements over existing hardware.

I am running a 3600x. I did not think a jump to a ryzen 7600/7600x was quite worthwhile enough for me. But if reviews are impressive for the newer 6 core ryzen then I might just upgrade. If not, then I can just wait a bit longer.
 
LinkdJay said:
The age-old wisdom that I follow is that you should upgrade either if your current hardware is no longer able to meet the requirements of whatever application you use to a satisfactory degree, or if newer hardware has very tangible and worthwhile improvements over existing hardware.
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AMD has done such a good job with ryzen platform. I am satisfied from 5950x but then again am5 changes the whole platform. Anyways technology changes every day and becomes lucrative. Doesn't look like am4 is gonna die anytime soon.
 
vishalrao said:
I'm considering replacing my current Zen 2 (3970X) PC with a 9950X build which sadly (for me) will be half the cores but I'll double everything else specs-wise.
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Would you be able to stomach loosing the PCIe lanes? Even though I say that, 9950x is looking very promising with that performance and efficiency.
 
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