AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU Review & Benchmarks vs. 14700K, 7900X, 9950X, & More

Our review and benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU focus on workstation and production tasks, but also feature gaming benchmarks and comparisons against Intel and AMD alternatives. These include AMD Zen 4 alternative CPUs, like the 7900X, 7800X3D (for gaming), and 7950X, as well as Intel's i7-14700K and i9-14900K. We have another couple dozen CPUs in the tests as well, including prior generation R9 5900X and R9 3950X CPU benchmarks. Testing also features the R9 7900.



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00:00 - AMD R9 9900X CPU Alternatives & Prices
02:02 - CPU Benchmarks List
05:16 - Windows Administrator
06:11 - All-Core Frequency (9900X, 9700X, 9950X)
07:21 - Single-Core Frequency (Zen 5 vs. Zen 4)
08:27 - Thermal Misconceptions
09:29 - Thermal Benchmarks (Zen 5 Comparison)
10:24 - Power Consumption (All-Core, Blender)
11:32 - Efficiency (Blender)
12:27 - Efficiency (Compression)
13:31 - Efficiency (Decompression)
14:27 - Gaming Efficiency (Stellaris)
15:15 - Gaming Efficiency (Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty)
15:43 - Gaming Efficiency (FFXIV)
16:16 - Computational Fluid Dynamics (Rodinia CFD)
17:58 - 3D Rendering (Blender CPU Benchmarks)
18:51 - Code Compile Benchmark (Chromium CPU Test)
19:45 - File Compression CPU Test
20:29 - File Decompression CPU Comparison
21:13 - Adobe Photoshop CPU Benchmarks
21:59 - Adobe Premiere CPU Benchmarks
22:28 - SpecWS Financial Simulations
23:03 - SpecWS LAMMPS Biomedical Modeling
23:27 - Gaming Benchmarks List
23:58 - Gaming (Dragon's Dogma 2 Best CPUs)
24:59 - Gaming (F1 24)
25:40 - Gaming (FFXIV Dawntrail Benchmarks)
26:38 - Gaming (Stellaris CPU Benchmarks)
27:16 - Gaming (Baldur's Gate 3 CPU Benchmarks)
27:32 - Conclusion

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[gosuprime]

AMD is in an interesting situation since both AMD releases and Intel releases tell you "go buy a 7800x3D!"...essentially.

[snowbeast]

Hi! As a mixing engineer it'd be really cool to see how these different CPU's work with FL Studio both in export times, but more importantly how well they can handle multiple tracks being loaded up with plugins (such as EQ-s, compressors, reverbs, delays etc.) Really well made and helpful video as always, thanks!

[cozmium]

One day Steve will be allowed home to sleep a full night's sleep and see his family. Until then we have more reviews - thankyou sir.

[Real_MisterSir]

I'm convinced at this point Steve just enters a stasis chamber for half an hour every night at the office, and then he cracks on to the next review set, utterly unphased.

Thanks, Steve.

[ChairmanMeow]

Those gaming benchmarks though.. I know it wasn't the purpose of the video, but the 7800X3D is an absolute BEAST.

[joolsstoo]

9900X? I still have a 9900k in my system, we've progressed 13 letters in 6 years

[mrnicktoyou]

For gaming, the 5800X3D and the 7800X3D are going to go down in history.

[unavailablenumbers]

CFD is all about clock plus core, which is why the 9950X shot to the top of the chart. It's almost a 1:1 relation. So same clock, 25% more cores, +25% is expected. Rodinia CFD is an unstructured grid finite volume solver. Which is why Intel just gets absolutely WRECKED by even Threadripper 2990WX's. In essence, CFD unstructured grid finite volume is a direct representation of the ACTUAL computational capability of a given processor which essentially excludes all other potential modifiers. Not just GPU, but also DRAM and cache.

[Almarillion]

Nice to see a channel also including 5900x in their charts. Not everyone is uograding from 7900.

[mwyeoh]

Loving that you're adding "Simulation Time" benchmarks for your videos which is great for strategy gamers such as myself

[simphiwentshalintshali-xxiw]

As a music producer and a computer freak - 1) kontakt and associated sample libraries (ram intensive (and could be cpu intensive if there are a lot of modulation tweakables)) 2) serum (can be cpu intensive depending on the presets (find some dubstep preset as those are complex typically) 3 - massive (from the same company as kontakt (native instruments) but is a synthesizer, also cpu intensive. Music production software pretty much taxes your ram (sample library plug-ins (like orchestral instruments (were recorded one key at a time basically) and drum samples) and cpu (complex synthesizers) intensive. That's the thought process you should apply. Then just have multiple instances of those programs running to see how a given PC can handle, no matter how ridiculous the project sounds like lol. DAW (like fl studio, ableton live, logic) is like an OS so they don't really tax the cpu and ram that much, but fl studio is the most inefficient (it takes less total serum instances in fl studio than in ableton or logic pro to hear audio stutters/cpu reaching its limit on the same PC from other tests done) - the reason I chose kontakt and serum, is because there is a large enough sample library/preset bank and they are the most commonly used, each taxing the ram or cpu (or both - depending on the sample library with kontakt) respectively

[EverythingEvo]

Love still seeing my 5800X3D still up there. Such a great CPU! :)

[paultravisano]

Another test that would be really helpful for engineers and 3D modelers is a Solidworks benchmark. It should be a largely single thread test but it would be interesting to compared amd to intel and see if 3D V cache helps

[Ascendor]

I built a system for my 9y old with a 7800X3D and a 4070 Ti Super. I was so impressed by it, that I sold my 13900k, and bought a 7800X3D for my 4090. Hassle free gaming, love it. -15 CurveO, 6400Mhz CL30, 2166 FCLK.

[alrecks]

"you game? 7800X3D, you do workstation loads? 7950X"

[Vedthrfolnir]

I'd love to see Unreal Engine benchmarks. Both compiling the engine from source and building their Shooter Game demo. The 16 core processors tend to be really economical for game development for studios that cannot afford Threadrippers for everyone. But it would be great to see some real data on this.
A Unity project build would be good to see too. Unity has a mix of single core and multicore loads when it builds projects, so that would be an interesting benchmark. I haven't built their sample projects, but they probably make a good benchmark.

[AS-gbwz]

Steve looks really enthusiastic in the thumbnail there

[Neonagi]

Good write-up. Kinda wanted to see how the 7900X3D is holding on as well. Only saw it mentioned once in the power-consumption section. It's an odd middle brother chip so naturally it gets missed, but it's fun to see how it will stack up over time.

[Lunghorn]

Wonder if AMD's plan is to wait for Arrow Lake, then decrease their Zen 5 prices and release X3D to compete, or if Arrow Lake is a flop just let the prices stay.

[terrydoestech]

My biggest take away here is that my 5900x and 4080 are going to be just fine for this generation and maybe even the next one.

Great video, y'all!