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it's a really big day for all pc gamers

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and content creators and everybody who loves high performance processors it was

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only two years ago that amd doubled the core counts of intel's competing

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mainstream products like for real this time and then

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just when it seemed like until it finally clawed their way back into the

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fight amd sent us this for review

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the ryzen 9 3950x is a desktop processor

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that not only has 16 true multi-threaded

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processing cores it even has a higher

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boost clock than any of its predecessors guys i haven't been this excited for a

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consumer cpu since i got my first quad

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core in 2006.

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i am almost as excited about it as i am about this segway to our sponsor team

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when amd announced this thing back at e3 2019 the biggest question everyone had

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was how i mean we knew that they were doing

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it with two separate two ccx dies just

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like the ryzen 9 3900x except that that

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processor not only had two cores per die

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disabled it also ran pretty toasty

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surely then with 16 instead of 12 cores

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and the highest boost clocks out of the entire ryzen family it couldn't possibly

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perform the way that amd was claiming that it could except it does almost to

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the point where amd is killing other

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more lucrative parts of their own product lineup never mind the

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competition cause here's the thing at 750 dollars

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it's not cheap but it's also taking the position that

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was formally held by amd's threadripper

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series of cpus and with only a few trade-offs so first up you lose 40 cpu

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pci express lanes bringing the total to 24 with four of those being used to

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communicate with the chipset so if you need a ton of pci express expansion

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threadripper might still hold some appeal for you but remember too guys pci

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express gen 4 means that the link between the cpu and the chipset is

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effectively twice as wide as first and

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second gen ryzen that means less congestion on that link even if you are

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using mostly pci express gen 3 devices

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downstream so second you lose quad channel memory and

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the extra memory capacity that threadripper offers although the 3950x

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can still handle up to 128 gigs of ram so most people will

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probably be fine especially given that the supported memory speed is far higher

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and as we all know that's super important for amd ryzen the icing on the

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cake here then is that you no longer have to contend with switching pneuma

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versus yuma nodes for a given workload

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oh and the motherboards are much less expensive to get into too so

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all in all the 3950x is a faster cpu

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compared to first and second generation threadripper and as a gamer or even a

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prosumer you're giving up very little of value unless you're into

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multi-way gpu setups or huge nvme

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storage arrays uh if you are into those things by the way get subscribed so you don't miss our

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review of the next-gen threadrippers now though is the moment you've all been

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waiting for graphs glorious graphs hot

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piles of numbers it's been a long week uh we used a

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number of different platforms this time around so here's what we came up with

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there's more amd than intel here because

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frankly speaking intel doesn't really have a lot to compare against it and we

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just want to do a shout out here for puget for providing us access to a core

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i9 9960x which intel wouldn't send us

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for comparison presumably to avoid direct 16 core to 16 core you know

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graphs and wow i can see why they did that because this thing is a

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productivity monster remember guys we're just looking at bars

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on a graph here so it's easy to lose track but these are thread rippers and

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core i9s that we are comparing it to and the 3950x is on top in virtually every

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test we threw at it thanks to its high core count and high core clocks compared

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especially to intel's atdt platform now pay particular attention to the

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benchmarks that measure time here we are shaving literally minutes off of the

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3900x which already trounced intel's

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9900k and then comparing directly to the 9900k the 3950x finished our handbrake

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transcode in nearly half the time what's

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more impressive here is that the single threaded and lightly threaded results

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are also quite competitive with everything else in our test suite last

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gen threadripper guys is looking noticeably last gen right about now

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especially because threadripper's main disadvantage came into play when its

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professional users wanted to take a break at the end of the day and play

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some games here the 3950x shines though as

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advertised it is consistently as fast or

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faster than any of amd's lower core count chips which means that we are

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looking at the processor that somehow combines the best of high core counts

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and high frequencies guys this is the closest that amd has come yet to

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decisively dethroning intel in

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gaming and it's so close in some cases that if i was sitting over at intel

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watching this i would probably need a new pair of underpants at this point

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um by the way lttstore.com but then

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all of this must come at a price mustn't it and not

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just one that hits your wallet right wrong so we were expecting the 3950x to

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be a a blazing inferno but under synthetic load we are nearly

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10 degrees cooler than the 3900x

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and that thing's down 4 course now as we can see it does dip slightly below base

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clocks under these conditions but so too does the 3900x and if we were

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hoping for the power consumption to reveal some horrible secret tough luck

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there too the 3950x also manages to draw

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4 watts less than the 3 900 i like what

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blood sacrifice did team red make to do this when we look a bit closely here we

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see that no blood sacrifice was required in fact the 3950x achieves this through

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some very very careful power management it actually runs at a v core of less

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than one volt under load in prime95 and

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only just more than that in cinebench r20 it's actually only in lightly

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threaded workloads that the voltage really ramps up and there well it

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doesn't affect total chip power consumption as much because there's so

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many fewer cores that are actually drawing power

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so thing is while amd recommends that you run out and buy a beefy cooler for

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the 3950x unless you're overclocking

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i'm not so sure because this thing is easier to cool than a ryzen 7 when we

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ran it with a memory overclock and the bios performance enhancements enabled to

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relax precision boost's restrictions yeah it did draw more power and it got

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hotter but again not by a huge amount v-core

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only went up by about 10 and we're still within 10 degrees of

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stock under load not to mention that the performance improvement this got us in

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multi-threaded workloads put us well above our stock results and even got us

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on par or better than our stock core i9 9900k in terms of gaming so what then is

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this just really good binning we're paying for kind of like intel's 9900ks

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that they recently released just just please hold on to that gaming crown we

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need it probably i mean there's a reason that amd decided to hold off until now

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to release this chip after all but now that it is here it seems like if you've

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always liked high-end desktop cpus for their huge core counts but hated their

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outlandish prices and expensive motherboards you finally have the

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processor that you always dreamed of honestly the guys this thing is

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incredible it's crazy fast it works on reasonably priced boards and it even has

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ecc memory support if you want to use it in a budget workstation this thing is so

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good that if amd wants to have any hope of us recommending a third gen

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threadripper they're gonna have to pull a serious rabbit out of their hat by the

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