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AMD Zen 5 rumours

With one VCache CCD and one standard CCD on the 9950x3d I'd suggest the 9800x3d would be better for gaming unless you turn off the non-VCache CCD if just to avoid cross CCD issues.

For productivity there is now less of a downside to VCache, so it's no longer a compromise against both the 9800X3D and the 9950X, so it's the 9950X that makes little sense unless it's significantly cheaper.
 
Just waiting for 9950X3D availability now before I can crack on with my next build.

Hurry up AMD, my kids want my current PC as a hand me down!

Not sure the 9900X3D will be that great TBH as isn’t it a 12 core chip over two 6 core CCD’s?

At least the 9800X3D and the 9950X3D both have 8 cores with the Vcache.
 
I don't understand why the 9950x3d will only be 1% better than the 9800x3d, when it has +500mhz, +50watts and +40mb more cache. Yes I know about inter CCD latency and the 3d cache only being on one CCD, but I expected more than 1% increased gaming performance
 
I don't understand why the 9950x3d will only be 1% better than the 9800x3d, when it has +500mhz, +50watts and +40mb more cache. Yes I know about inter CCD latency and the 3d cache only being on one CCD, but I expected more than 1% increased gaming performance
Id be surprised if 1% faster in games than 9800x3d

Id half believe if was compared to 7800x3d
 
Yes but even if you parked the non x3d CCD on the 9950x3d, essentially making it an 8 core CPU, surely perfomance should be greater than 1% no?

Also someone has compared AMD's slides from yesterday showing much worse performance

I said all this yesterday when the averages work out the 9950x3D is not any faster. In terms of the significant slower side numbers, maybe slightly different game settings as they seem like outliers compared to others or games been patched since the previous numbers of the 9800x3D and has impact but 9% to -8% I would expect to be typical.

There clearly still issues that cause resources to be utilised when not a pure 8 core etc. Be that skething windows still trying to read parked cores or something.
 
Has it been said that the 9950x3d will still need Xbox game bar to run optimally, like the 7950x3d? I’m wondering if there is any difference in core parking at all.


probably, i think if they made any significant improvements they would have announced it
 
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