AMD’s new flagship Ryzen 9 9950X CPU has disappointed reviewers. It has similar gaming and productivity performance to the 7950X from two years ago.
AMD launched its first Zen 5 desktop processors earlier this month, and tomorrow it’s about to release what looks like a disappointing flagship Ryzen 9 9950X CPU. Early reviews of the initial Zen 5 CPUs — the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X — revealed a lack of performance improvements and efficiencies, and now reviews of the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X are coming to the same conclusion.
Hardware Unboxed found an actual regression in performance for compression and decompression work, and minor improvements over the 7950X in tests like Cinebench, Blender, and image editing in Photoshop. On average, the 9950X is just three percent faster than the 7950X during these productivity tests.
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