Testseek.co.uk have collected 110 expert reviews of the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4GHz Socket AM4 and the average rating is 91%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4GHz Socket AM4.
November 2020
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The editors liked
Excellent performance in a variety of workloads – multi-threaded productivity
Lightly threaded tasks
And high refresh rate gaming
Impressive boost clock speeds up to 5GHz
Strong gains from PBO and manual overclocking
Excellent thermal performance wit
The editors didn't like
Stock all-core clock speeds not improved versus Ryzen 9 3950X
More expensive than its predecessor but justified with higher performance
AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X is an absolute beast of a CPU and will be a solid upgrade for creative professionals who need extra horsepower in IPC and multi-core workloads.The biggest indicator here is the Realbench Heavy Multitasking that takes a Handbrake encodi...
Abstract: Since introducing its Ryzen series of desktop processors into the PC market, AMD has consistently increased core counts and core clocks, shrunk its transistor size to 7nm, and modified its architecture to be more efficient all on the same motherboard sock...
Abstract: Many will see today as an historic shift in computing power. With its new Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs, AMD has finally knocked Intel to the floor, and is raising its boxing gloves in victory as the flash bulbs pop and the ref declares a winner. The headline t...
Published: 2020-11-06, Author: Gordon , review by: pcworld.co.nz
Abstract: Many will see today as an historic shift in computing power. With its new Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs, AMD has finally knocked Intel to the floor, and is raising its boxing gloves in victory as the flash bulbs pop and the ref declares a winner. The headline t...
The AMD "Vermeer" Ryzen 5000 processors bring a sizeable IPC improvement gen-on-gen, Great gaming performance versus competing processors, Existing X570, A520 and B550 motherboards will support the new Zen3 Ryzen 5000 processors after a BIOS upgrade
Can't really think of one
This is voodoo magic at work. AMD has managed to improve performance in the last few domains where it was lagging behind Intel in the gaming and content creation space. Essentially, we're looking at much better gaming performance and equally notable impro...
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Published: 2021-01-19, Author: John , review by: lowyat.net
As our testing shows, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the CPU and GPU brand's most powerful processor in its arsenal, to date. As I had said earlier, it blows virtually all of the synthetic benchmarks out of the water and does so wit...
Simple, go-green package, Manual overclocking can still be rewarding, Ground-breaking single-core and multi-core performance, Delivers stunning gaming performance at 1080p, Excellent efficiency, Great value for money
FCLK overclocking headroom is still not as high as Renoir APUs
Be it gaming or content creation, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X is going to be the perfect 16-core CPU for you...
Abstract: Since time immemorial in the world of personal computing, there was an unspoken belief that if you'd wanted strong multi-threaded performance for content creation and professional applications, an AMD machine will have to be your choice. Conversely, if si...
Abstract: Verdict: The hype is real. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X are the gold standard for desktop processors in 2020, achieving massive uplifts in performance in almost every metric that counts. AMD's long journey to finally topple their old foe Intel has culm...
