AMD slayed the dragon - AMD Ryzen 9 9900X & 9950X

The new AMD 9900X and 9950X CPUs are here, and Intel should be SHOOK! With great performance, lower temperatures, and lower power draw than the i9-14900KS, is this the new top CPU for people looking for peak performance, or should you keep waiting for the next release that could be coming soon?

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Only kind of a dragon
0:39 Unboxing and compatibility
1:45 What makes these different?
3:32 Sponsor - MSI
3:57 Gaming performance
5:05 Productivity performance
5:53 PBO power tuning and temperatures
7:02 Pricing and overall thoughts
8:34 Outro

[nintendork]

basically, gamers get the 7800X3D or wait for the 9800X3D

[hotsos]

Damn, we lived to see Zen 5 getting ShortCiruited

[jhonrock]

Is this the only channel on youtube who isn't roasting Zen 5 like crazy?

[MorgFlame]

Basically this video explains just wait for the 9950x3d 😅

[Buky]

You shills praise a 3% increase as “incredible” meanwhile the 7950x was like 50% better than 5950x. THAT is incredible.

[jackoneill]

Not even worth a full on LTT review lol. Short Circuit FTW. I actually appreciate it.

[MarioStoilov]

Is it me or does the audio sound echo-y?

[watercannonscollaboration]

Imagine being so underwhelming with your launch that your flagship CPU ends up on the shortcircuit channel. Come on AMD, you were doing so well with Zen 5 mobile. Time to wait for X3D and for these to get discounted like the 7000 series

[kieran]

it's 3% faster in productivity and 1% faster in gaming vs zen 4, and using similar power

[Hezzadude]

Love your videos Linus, but what is Labs doing? Every other reviewer is tearing these a new one for basically 5% or less gains and yet somehow the Labs testing shows it being better than that. Did someone… screw up? This is worth a closer look I think on your part

[kanvish]

>Same performance as two year old CPU.
What a roast.

[Swm]

I think people are just plain dumb for not realizing Moore’s Law is coming to an end and expecting again what they’ve seen over the past 40 years. The expectations were unrealistic. The proportional shrinking of nodes no longer provides the same magnitude compute improvement as it did at the ‘quantum effects!? Never heard of her!’ scale. I mean fuck, frankly it’s been dead for a while. People just didn’t notice. And these days, the “x nm” is illustrative of performance improvement and not physical realities. Its marketing. Recall the N4 N5 controversy. Consider how an intel 10nm can be comparable to an AMD 7nm. Trace width ain’t everything. Gate size and gate density.

The future is yet more chiplet stuffing imo.

[socialnginrin]

Higher efficiency means less heat to deal with, this should be the goal :) processing units are fast enough for me, i want companies to maximize efficiency

[RILDIGITAL]

The added bonus of future-proofing with the same AM5 socket is quite attractive for incremental upgrades.

[anonymousperson]

JayzTwoCents - AMD fumbled the launch
LTT - AMD slayed the dragon

[evalangley]

"The Ryzen 9 9950X was 33% faster than the Intel Core i9 14900K performance overall and even the Ryzen 9 9900X was 18% faster than the Core i9 14900K. For those still on AM4, the Ryzen 9 9950X was delivering 1.87x the performance of the Ryzen 9 5950X processor. These are some great gains found with the Ryzen 9 9900 series."

-Phoronix on Linux performances

[Danirio]

Talking about the x3d but not including them in the charts is a bad move

[Dragonsoft]

Thankfully my i7 13700k is doing alright,
But I'll be switching to AMD next time for sure!

[danwyhnot]

come on, why everbody is inculding the 7800x3D but NOT the 7950x3D in their Tests?

[hardwarevsgaming]

LTT: Zen 5 excellent/great
Other reviewers: Zen 5 mid/okay/meh
🤔
AMD is looking like Intel back in their tick-tock days