Review Zen4 3D review thread

[Hitman928]

Thread to focus on Zen4 3D cache CPUs.

New gaming king (as most expected), though the 2 CCD 7950x3d does seem to have issues with some games, more than I would expect of it getting stuck on the "wrong" CCD. I imagine it will get cleared up with subsequent updates but we'll see. Simulated 7800X3D showed no such issues and overall has the gaming lead (real product might be slightly slower though depending on in game clocks).

Computerbase also has the 7950x3d as the gaming champ. They (and TPU) also show that efficiency while gaming is extremely good.

Ryzen 9 7950X3D im Test gegen 5800X3D und 13900K(S)

Zen 4 3D ist da. Im Test erweist sich AMDs Ryzen 9 7950X3D gegen 7950X, 5800X3D und Core i9-13900K(S) als schnell und effizient.

www.computerbase.de

Just to toot my own horn a little, it landed spot on with my prediction of fastest gaming CPU but not significantly so over a 13900k on average, but with much higher efficiency.

Additional reviews, will add more later.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D processor review

We review the new Ryzen 9 7950X3D processor from AMD. The much-anticipated processor series comes with an added cache that will help predominantly with gaming. This processor series was designed for ...

www.guru3d.com

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Review - Best of Both Worlds

The Ryzen 9 7950X3D is the spearhead of the AMD Zen 4 X3D lineup. In our performance review we test AMD's new 16-core flagship with dozens of applications and 14 games at up to 4K, to see whether AMD can take the performance crown from Intel, how power consumption is affected, and what can be...

www.techpowerup.com

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Review: AMD's Fastest Gaming Processor

www.anandtech.com

Gamers Nexus

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Linux Performance Review - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Review: AMD Retakes Gaming Crown with 3D V-Cache

AMD takes a bite out of Raptor Lake.

www.tomshardware.com

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D review: Team Red retakes the lead with its best CPU ever

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D is the best gaming CPU there is, and it's not close

www.techradar.com

 

[DAPUNISHER]

If I have a motherboard that doesn't have a clear CMOS button on the rear I/O I usually connect the front panel reset button to the CMOS jumper pins.

This is the way.

 

[biostud]

Wanted to see how my PC performed today compared to a year and 1/2 ago.

Key differences:

MSI 4090 replaced with Gigabyte Waterforce 4090. Same core clock speed. +1600 on memory compared to +1100. 600W max power compared to 520W. Runs cooler.

High frequency CCD turned off with other BIOS changes:
BCLK1 Frequency [102.0000]
BCLK2 Frequency [106.0000]
Memory Frequency [DDR5-6120MHz]
FCLK Frequency [2100 MHz]
Tcl [28]
Trcd [36]
Trp [36]
Tras [28]

Windows 11 23H2 with the Ryzen performance fix.

Horizon Zero Dawn
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Tomb Raider
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Cyberpunk 2077 with Phantom Liberty update. It's not exactly apples to apples with this update. Settings are the same though.
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Could you maybe post your old scores next to the new?

And you are still experiencing problems when not disabling the frequency cores?

 

[AdamK47]

Could you maybe post your old scores next to the new?

And you are still experiencing problems when not disabling the frequency cores?

I quoted my original post and all browsers have the ability to scroll on a page.

I disabled the HF CCD last year when I discovered some games stutter with the AMD driver / Xbox game bar solution. Still do to this date. Metro Exodus being one of them. Then there are other games that show a slight performance increase with the HF CCD being disabled. No matter what you try to do with the HF CCD in Windows.

Since this is my gaming PC and I only game on it, the HF CCD remains disabled in BIOS. No silly VCache driver/service, no game bar, and no power plan settings.

 

[biostud]

I quoted my original post and all browsers have the ability to scroll on a page.

I disabled the HF CCD last year when I discovered some games stutter with the AMD driver / Xbox game bar solution. Still do to this date. Metro Exodus being one of them. Then there are other games that show a slight performance increase with the HF CCD being disabled. No matter what you try to do with the HF CCD in Windows.

Since this is my gaming PC and I only game on it, the HF CCD remains disabled in BIOS. No silly VCache driver/service, no game bar, and no power plan settings.

I'm just blind :/

 

[igor_kavinski]

I'm just blind :/

Nah. Same thing happened to me too.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Horizon Zero Dawn
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HZD is really flying with the new patch. Went from 14 fps minimum to 104 fps minimum!!!!

♫ A new dawn A new day!!! ♫

 

[DrMrLordX]

HZD is really flying with the new patch. Went from 14 fps minimum to 104 fps minimum!!!!

♫ A new dawn A new day!!! ♫

It's interesting that Horizon: Zero Dawn saw so much improvement. Critics panned the Windows port for poor performance when it came out.