95°C is Now Normal: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU Review & Benchmarks

Grab our 3D coaster pack to support us and get something awesome in return! store.gamersnexus.net/products/3d-coaster-pack-4-c… Watch our AMD Ryzen 5 7600X CPU review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM-twyjfYIw Watch our review of the Ryzen 9 7900X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s04TOQkzv3c Here's the 7950X at 6.45GHz: https://youtu.be/ccg6aU7Hmjw

EVGA picked the golden time to go full throttle into the power supply industry

The 4 horsemen of winter heater 1. 13900K 2. 7950X 3. RTX 4090 4. R9 390x

Microsoft Flight Sim is known to often be a CPU bound title, especially in places that are densely populated with buildings and other AI traffic (I.e. NYC). Maybe something to consider for benchmarks, especially once the 4000 series GPU's are out.

Any chance you could run a test comparing the 7950X and 5950X's performance and efficiency at different power targets? It'd be super interesting to reveal the efficiency gains that AMD is boasting about but not taking full advantage of in the stock configuration, and to see if an efficiency-centric build would even benefit from using a 7950X over a 5950X with appropriate power limits applied. Side note, you keep blowing me away with your thorough testing methodologies, it's very impressive. Keep up the great work!

It's a bit funny how in all these charts the pattern with Intel CPUs is 11th gen does not qualify, but the 10th and 12th gen do, because 11th gen was a regression in every way.

finally a new space heater

It would be interesting to see how performance scales with a range of cooling solutions (budget/premium, air/water).

Nice to see that AMD is finally able to compete with Intel in the space heater market.

So if this CPU is designed to go right up to 95C then the cooling comparisons will based on what steady state clock speed can be achieved at 95C. It will be interesting to see what undervolting can do.

I was very glad to see GN posted their 7950X review first, but Hardware Unboxed started with 7600X so I could watch reviews of both CPUs when embargo lifted. Thanks to both of you, don't know if you coordinated this, but it was great. GN is always one of the first reviews I go to for new releases, keep up the great work!!!!

that long and repeated first boot is definitely going to br confusing for some, but the fact that it is determining the tightest stable timings on its own is awesome.

Amazing work with the script delivery and editing. This video maintains the expected high level of quality but is more engaging than many older ones.

I would love to see more CPU-focused games to start getting tested. Simulation heavy games, large sandboxes, stuff like that. I don't know what kind of benchmarking those games support, but with being GPU bound on most games, or being at FPS levels where it doesnt matter, those might still present an actual useful difference.

It would be interesting to see the efficiency of these cpus at a fixed power limit (60W,120W), would cool to see who has the most efficient cpu there

I love your reviews man, always report good numbers in a relatable context that's very comprehensible. Keep on keeping on brother.

Great review as always, appreciate the entire team. -- This makes me want to stretch out AM4 even longer personally. If I can find a used or new sharply discounted 5800x3d think thatll be my work horse for another 4-5 years

First review I clicked on as always

As someone who is looking to finally upgrade from an 1800X: thank you for including a first-gen Ryzen CPU in your graphs! d(^__^)

I love you and your team testing, I would love to see other workflows in the 3d software tested, like simulations, animation playback, etc. It would be amazing to have something like puget bench for blender. Love your work thanks for the review