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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Pricing will be the key. They have hinted at competitive pricing.
 
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.
 
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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Yeah, i guess they said it will be supported past 2027
 
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.
 
AMD is promising gains of up to 56 percent in Blender against Intel’s Core i9-14900K
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They should put out a press release.
Earlier we stated 56% more performance in Blender against the i9-14900K. This was an error and we apologize. The actual figure is +156% because the 9900X will actually work.
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