AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Processor Review

System Overview & Testing Procedures

Here are our test systems of the processors we will be testing today…

AMD X570 System
Processors: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, Ryzen 7 3700X, Ryzen 5 3600X, Ryzen 7 2700X
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi)
Graphics: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio
Memory: 16GB G.SKILL Trident Z Royal 3600 MHz
Storage: SK hynix Gold P31 M.2 NVMe Solid State Drive
Cooling: Noctua NH-U12A
Power Supply: Corsair HX1200i
Case: Streacom BC1 Open Benchtable

Intel Z490 System
Processors: Intel Core i9-10900K, Intel Core i5-10600K
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero
Graphics: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio
Memory: 16GB G.SKILL Trident Z Royal 3600 MHz
Storage: Sabrent Rocket Q NVMe Solid State Drive
Cooling: Noctua NH-U12A
Power Supply: Corsair HX1200i
Case: Streacom BC1 Open Benchtable

Here are the tests that we will be running:

CPU Testing
AIDA64
– CPU Queen
– CPU ZLib
X265 Benchmark
POV-Ray 3.7
CINEBENCH R20
Sisoftware Sandra
– Processor Overall
– Processor Arithmetic
– Processor Multimedia
Geekbench 5

Graphics
3DMark Time Spy
3DMark Fire Strike
SuperPosition
– 1080P “High” Benchmark

Gaming
Ashes of the Singularity (1440pp)
Borderlands 3 (1440p)
FarCry New Dawn (1440p)
Metro Exodus (1440p)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1440p)

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