AMD’s Ryxen 9 3950X hits 4.3GHz across all 16 cores


AMD's Ryxen 9 3950X hits 4.3GHz across all 16 cores

The Ryzen 9 3950X is taking its sweet time to arrive

AMD’S RYZEN 9 3950X is nearly here, and it looks like it could trounce Intel’s Core i9-9900K when it arrives.

According to a premature posting by hardware firm Gigabyte – since taken down, so hat tip to Hexus – the CPU can kick out 4.4GHz across all of its 16 cores; the Core i9-9900K manages a higher 4.6GHz but that’s only across eight cores.

In the Cinebench R15 test, Gigabyte found that it could get a stable overclock of 4.3GHz using a tweaked 1.4V Vcore across all of the Ryzen 9 3950X’s cores leading to a benchmark score of 4,384; TechRadar reports that the Core i9-9900K only managed a score of 1,873.

Cinebench R15 benchmarks are not a true test of performance capabilities in real-world use, and there are still plenty of times when Intel’s latest desktop CPUs outperform the third-gen Ryzen CPUs in tasks like gaming.

But the benchmark is a good test of the rendering chops of a CPU and how well a processor can put its multi-core horsepower to work. On the whole AMD CPUs have always been known as good performers in multi-core works, so there’s arguably no surprise the Ryzen 9 3950X can outperform its nearest rival, at least until the Core i9-9900KS comes along.

Nevertheless, the benchmark does demonstrate that the Ryxen 9 3950X is set to be a proper powerhouse, with what would appear to be plenty of overclocking headroom.

That could be good news for people who want a Ryzen-based machine that can offer plenty of cores for multithreaded work but also have high frequencies for gaming.

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We’ll have to wait until next month to get an idea of how well the Ryxen 9 3950X truly performs. But it’s likely to launch around the same time as third-generation Threadripper CPUs, so AMD should have a proper suite of high-end processors to ushering in the holiday season. µ

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