DON'T BLINDLY Buy This CPU! -- AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 

Many thanks go out to #Georgios over at #equippr for getting a hold on this CPU for my review. #NotSponsored 🤗🤩 What are YOUR thoughts on the 7950X? Did you expect MORE or LESS? 🤔🤔🤔

Intel have been requiring people to buy new motherboards with each new CPU release on a yearly basis and nobody cared. AMD changing to a new platform after 5 years and people lose their minds.

In my opinion, the r9 7950x is the better option and beats the 7950x3d in some titles/scenarios. The 7950x will age well as new technologies will be released that take advantage of the 16 cores, The 7950x is much better than the i9 13900k, even with lower benchmark scores because of it. I'm getting a r23 Cinebench score of 40k easily with an all core off set of -0.030v.This greatly reduce power consumptions and temperatures. To beat that score a 13900k must draw close to 300watt.

im loving my 7950x, and it keeps getting better as new driver versions come out.

I know you were comparing stock clock speed between the two but the 5950X can easily do 4.2ghz multi core and 5.05ghz single core under load with alittle tweaking. CB23 scores of 1700/30,000 very doable.

Great cpu review.. :) i see everyones buying the 5800x3d and those who are not are waiting for the 7800x3d

Ty for the work. Can we have the efficiency per watt between 5950x and 7950x?

The quality of your videos is excellent. You should be receiving sponsorship.

So whoever said at AND to add the iGPU for what it is worth on utility value (maybe not) kicked out the DDR 4 memory controller? mb

I've got the 5800X with the RTX 4090 and I'm happy as hell at 4K gaming!

I really love my 7950x. Set the quick n easy overclocking profile in the bios to the easy setting to run at 80C/Level 1, and it runs cool like a dream. That's all you have to do, change one setting in BIOS. No overheating problems whatsoever. I run a Corsair H150i 360mm AIO RAD on mine and recommend it. You want a big beefy radiator. Windows 10 and my video editing software isn't the greatest though at spreading loads across all cores, and, UEFI bios looks pretty but kinnda of swxs for it's complexity, and DDR5 ain't all that it's cracked up to be from a price/performance perspective. (Level 1 = Negative 10 undervolt of the Curve on all cores, if you want to tinker and squeeze more out, try and push it manually up by ones if you can get up to Negative 15 undervolt). You can get it up from a typical 5.3 megahertz to 5.4 megahertz and still be at 80C tops. I'm running mine at Negative 12 undervolt the curve on all cores... Negative 15 would do random crashes. Others have done Negative 15... it all comes down to the silicon lottery and random chance of what you get out the fab. I don't recommend trying Level 2, 3, 4, or 5... (Negative 20,30,40, 50 undervolt on the CPU power Curve respectively) as those are probably meant for other CPUs in their lineup. You won't hurt your processor, but it just will crash or not post or be unstable. If you can run Level 2 stably forever with no crashes, then you must of hit some lottery jackpot.

Wish the AM5 mobo were a bit cheaper. :| would buy it if it were, + a cheaper CPU, like 7500 maybe, so that i can upgrade to Zen6 or so ?

is the 7950x good for gaming too? i just ordered it and im scared if i bought a bad processor lol

If you think DDR5 is expensive then you have amnesia of the memory shortage not too long long ago when RAM was way more expensive. It’s amazing how cheap DDR5 is in comparison. People always have something to complain about and forget about times when things were much worse.

Ich glaub du bist der Erste bei dem ich im Review die Idle Power Consumption sehe. Mein 5950X braucht im Idle ~65W und das find ich schon viel, aber doppelt so viel für den 7950X? :O bei den aktuellen Strompreisen reiner Wahnsinn

Ich frage mich immer ob eine AMD GPU auf einer AMD Plattform besser performt.... aber wirklich sicher kann man das wohl nicht austesten glaube ich.

I love my new computer build. The 7950x and 4090 chews through everything at 4k. The 7950x will only get better as Microsoft, AMD fixes the 22H2 preformance bugs on the CCD hand offs

CC : Speak Faster... I'm at 2X and it is still a grind...

I am waiting for mine. I have a 3900x and it will be a nice upgrade. I work and game with my pc so it is a perfect upgrade. I was considering to buy the intel 13900k but I really like that AMD will support the am5 platform until 2025. Maybe I will grab a x3D chip down the line. Subscribe to your channel and waiting for your next video about this cpu if you ever do one :) Thanks for the great content. (Sorry I am french canadian)

I paid $545 for my 7950 at Microcenter. No problems with it yet. It sure is spicy though!

Great video!

Yes, I agree. Unless you are doing 128 million things at one time ...this level type of processor 9 times out of ten you really only need 6 or 8 cores.

so your issue is your forced to buy expensive ddr5 on a 700 cpu. ddr5 that only cost $219 for 6000mt and $150 for 5600

Came for the benchmarks. Stayed for the dance party.

5800X (non 3d) offers 85% gaming performance of 7950X for half the price (or less).

haha bank account goes brrr... I'm waiting for my cooler to arrive for my new 7950X3D build

I see the 7950x3d, and 7800x3d as 2023 best cpus the 13900ks is just going to do 6ghz like some 13900ks have done in the wild already 😂

Meh. I think it's a great cpu and obviously since it's on a new platform you have to pay for the new motherboard/ram but that's normal every few years a new platform is released. Should we have stayed on lga775 because it's cheaper? Lol

I appreciate the effort put into this video, but I simply don't agree with the final conclusion. Cost is not the determining factor for a high-end gaming PC. The 7950X results speak for themselves.

I want VR performance, kid.

I am so happy with my 7950X

You don't buy this CPU for gaming. It's more production focused. A 7700X is the way to go for mainly gaming and some production. Or stick with AM4 and get a 5800X3D till the 7000X3D series show up.

Just wait for the 3d versions, if the performance uplift is anything like it was for zen 3 then those will be the real treasures.

Ok er ist ja ehrlich. Aber genau so ehrlich muss man sagen ist eben der Vergleich zur 12000er CPU von Intel zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt wirklich eigentlich gar fehl am Platze.

The Key : undervolt

Don't buy it if you plan to upgrade from the 3000 series or 5000 series. Instant buyers regret. Wait 5 years

Beats Intel rubbish.

i keep my 9700k

Pretty click baity title

After owning 5950x im done with amd's high gaming temps. Im one of those "air cooler or nothing" guys and zen 2,3 and 4 suffers greatly from high temps in gaming workloads especially with air coolers. Sure the performance is awesome and im going to keep my 5950x for a long time, but if you are going to run stock high end cpu do not get zen 4, its going to be a nightmare dealing with your cpu fan noise and fan curves. And before anyone pops out with arguments like "but you can undervolt it with curve optimizer" well kinda, but it takes a lot of time to dial actual stable undervolt and in some cases you will actually increase your cpu temps, it has to do with your cpu best cores and whether you undervolt them or not. With intel its alot simpler it will run cool in gaming and hot in all core workloads, but you can set power limits to 200-250W for all core and it will be much better temp wise and very minimal all core performance penalty. So overall i think that too many reviewers ignore big part of temp testing methodology. With such aggressive cpu boosting algo's these days reviewers needs to start testing low load scenarios and high load scenarios because it can have massive impact on day2day use.

Stop begging for likes. I don't care if you've paid out of pocket.