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over the past week I have been testing out AMD's new CPUs and today we have here the 2950 X which is very impressive not only in its total performance but also in terms of its price tag coming in at 899 US dollars it is one phenomenal CPU with 16 cos 32 threads and I was able to overclock it to 4.2 gigahertz and the temperatures were very well controlled a few days ago however I did take a look at the 2990 WX and although that had 32 cores and 64 threads and it came in at a good price for the hardware you were getting it was actually a very nice CPU in that if that application could take advantage of those cause then you saw the performance but when it came to gaming it was a real slouch it was quite poor in fact that you had to turn it into a 2700 X through the rise of master software to get any real decent performance out of it in terms of games but today with the 29 50 X we have a real hard-hitting CPU that in my opinion can do it all so straight away with the 2950 ex we're gonna paint two pictures and that is the productivity side of things or the workflow and saving time and the efficiency of this processor and also streaming which I'm sure is a big segment of people in the market who want to get a CPU that can not only game but also has the extra Headroom to process frames even while it's encoding from the CPU so let's straight away pull up some benchmarks that are important to me first of all DaVinci Resolve which is a new program that's free and it does edit videos in 4k this is where the 2950 X really did well and in fact it beat the 2990 WX which was quite surprising Intel did pretty well it does consistent across the productivity numbers both the 18 core in the tank or but the 2950 X was a shining example of really solid price performance in this benchmark not to mention you still had Headroom because all the calls and threads weren't being fully utilized but next up here in the benchmark list we're gonna pull up handbrake which is used to transcode video transcoding a 13 minute video from 4k to 1080p 30fps so love the 29 50x scored a sizable victory here was pretty good also when it was overclocked to 4.2 gigahertz it did even better the 7900 x10 core was pretty good value here as well the 7900 X however is getting close to 100% utilization in this particular benchmark so you do have more headroom on that 29 50x when it comes to handbrake moving across now to the next benchmark which was W prime 2.1 this is a program that calculates integers and it does it in 32 and a 102 4 million and the 102 4 million really ramps up and then it utilizes all those calls at 100% the 32m scores really look a little bit bizarre because they're constantly changing due to how quickly all these CPUs can process this benchmark but when it comes to the 102 4 numbers you saw here in a perfect world how these CPUs can perform with 32 cores 64 threads winning here and then of course at the end of the spectrum was the 7900 X with its 10 cores and 20 threads losing this benchmark however a hundred percent you utilization of cause is something that a lot of programs still can't do to this date unless they get optimizations Premiere Pro one of the most used programs here at Tec your city because I edit videos a lot in 4k shows that the Intel optimizations that have been going through the Adobe software have been able to make the 79 80 X e come out with a big victory in the 7900 X being a hundred percent utilized is still falling a little bit behind the 29 50 X so the 29 50 X is doing really well in its price performance in this benchmark and you still got those head rooms with the extra cores and threads versus the 7900 X counterpart and so these two CPUs being similarly priced it does show that the 2950 X is coming out with better value in my opinion but we move over to Adobe dimension which does take advantage of more utilization on the AMD side scoring near-perfect hundred percent on the 29 50 X as opposed to the twenty nine ninety WX which was fluctuating just a little bit 2950 X really comes out and showcases its value and performance in this particular benchmark but if you really want to see the full potential of these CPU cores from both AMD and Intel then Cinebench is usually that synthetic that will show you that in this case the 2990 WX does do very well but the 2950 X at its 4.2 gigahertz overclock shows that with half the cores and half the threads it can still get up and boogie with a very impressive score coming close to that of the 79 80 X II which was very impressive and beating out that of the 7900 X v-ray was a similar story again with similar types of utilization going at a hundred percent and it show that the 2990 WX again was coming out on top and the 7900 X was coming in last place but last up here on the synthetics which is very important to look at is the 3d mark firestrike scores which does paint the picture for gaming but also in terms of the future potential in relation to gaming in my opinion you see the 29 50 X is scoring very impressive in the CPU scores getting near 30k just like the 79 80 X 870 900 X does fall behind a little bit and the 2990 WX really shows that it's having trouble in games and also this synthetic in particular when we turn it to game mode however you can see that twenty nine ninety WH does do a lot better but again we are turning the CPU essentially now into 2700 X and at $1,800 that's a very expensive 2700 X if you just want to play games but now moving into another figure here is power consumption because I get asked a lot about temperatures and cooling of these CPUs and because we're comparing many different CPUs we've got to take a look at the power consumption figures because that's what you really have to look at if you want to get a cooler for your particular CPU check out how much power consumption this CPU uses and in this case the 2950 X is performing very well here I believe it's the most efficient out of all these four CPUs in this particular benchmark where I'm using i-264 to load up the CPUs to 100% but on the other hand I feel like when you overclock it you do lose some of that efficiency on all of these SKUs at all different speeds the 2990 WX with 32 cores 64 threads will need a solid cooling solution but the 2950 X you'll definitely be able to get away pretty much all the time with the decent 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler and in these benchmarks were using the Animax TR for liquid cooler which has its special bracket 4 X 3 99 though now it's finally that time to move on to the gaming benchmarks and here I decided instead of doing straight gaming benchmarks I decided to do streaming benchmarks and I use the program called xsplit 6 megabits per second 1080p 60fps output which I believe a lot of streamers will strive to get these settings we use the fast encoding setting as well because anything higher generally will have pretty big 1% and 0.1% low dips and I guess if you're streaming you do want to be good in clutch situations because I guess that's what people want to watch they want to watch people who are really good at the game so you do want a smooth experience if you want to use this just as CPU to do everything that's play the games and encode the frames at the same time also it's important to note for all these tests I was using 32 hundred megahertz CL 14 means on ddr4 memory I use it across all different platforms the same amount of memory the same timings on the same memory itself let's move on with the first benchmark however csgo we saw here that the 7900 X was coming out in front especially at 4.5 gigahertz even it's all core boost out of the box is very impressive and you're gonna see the default settings still getting very high as well on the 7900 X that's because a lot of games aren't utilizing anywhere near 10 cores 20 threads still to this date so there's a lot more Headroom across all of these CPUs but it is important to know that 2950 X especially in csgo is performing very well it's performing so good - the fact that I like what this CPUs about the point 1% lows 1% lows they're very solid and now moving on a de dota 2 the trend continues with the 2950 X being a very solid option having a lot of headroom so if you want to do other things while you're streaming at the same time definitely a good option to look at definitely the best value for money out of these four CPUs with a 70 900 X if you're just into streaming and gaming at the same time is pulling the victory out in dota 2 as well Monster Hunter a very new title but all these CPUs handled this game absolutely fine the AMD 2950 X was doing very well in this particular benchmark 7900 X again coming out with those 10 cores at 4.5 gigahertz which was a very easily to obtain overclock and that's one thing I'll talk about with my overclocks in today's benchmarks all these overclocked even though there are different clock speeds they were all very easy to obtain and they weren't overloading the coolers nor were they overloading the motherboards anyway next up is a very important benchmark fortnight and your pro think an hour fortnight I don't like this game I'm sick of seeing it but we got some really good insight here as to what's going on with single turbo speeds versus overclocked speeds and the 2990 WX it tanked in this benchmark just like it's tanking in all the other games when you've got the normal mode on you have to really drop it down to a 2,700 X to get good performance out of it and that I believe is due to its quad channel memory in the memory configuration of the CPU to the bank's itself and that's a weird thing we'll have to take a look at that sometime later in the future but what we here now 29 50x performing very well but even in this game the utilization on the CPU is very low and what we can see with the turbo speeds here is that they were lower than they otherwise would be in Cinebench and this is one reason why I don't focus a whole lot on single core boost performance or even in that case recommending over clocks that are tiered to single core performance because games like fortnight's show what's going on with single two are called boost performance and I could make a separate video to this later on the future but what we see here is that the cores are jumping up and down on the ones that aren't being utilized fully so we can see that two of the cause I think it was call seven and nine were being utilized near 100% and they weren't going anywhere near those boost frequencies on the single core to core speeds that's because the other threads were being utilized ever so slightly which really confused the boost settings in this particular game and this a actually carried across to quite a few games which is why the 4.2 gigahertz overclock even though super user utilization was overall low it was winning in a lot of the games moving over to pub G the frame rate cap has finally been lifted and this enabled us to get some really cool results 7900 X again coming out on top with that 4.5 gigahertz overclock and similar to fortnight the CPU utilization isn't the best in this title even with all the updates but it is great to see that frame cap finally lifted moving over to Tom Clancy's the last game we've got up on display here for streaming Rainbow six siege this did very well across three CPUs the 2990 WX again tanking in this particular benchmark so the 2950 X coming out of this is looking like it's the most relevant choice on the X 399 platform it's definitely going to be my pick for someone who wants to do it all have a lot of headroom and get very good value for money the 2990 WX in that review I'll put the link up here if you haven't seen it yet it's mainly for those people who use one application day in day out and they can utilize all those 32 cores 64 threads and those applications are very specific I'm yet to encounter that in my workflow and have a need for the 2990 WS but the 2950 x is definitely a champion that can do it all and it can do it all in terms of doing productivity better than the 7900 ex but still falling just a little bit behind in gaming and I guess those trade-offs are falling a little bit behind in gaming but also having had more Headroom for the future is definitely one that I feels better value so you've got better productivity better creativity now slightly behind in gaming but also more Headroom to do other things whilst you're gaming so there's that choice ultimately however that you're left faced with what are you looking for in a cpu there are different options out there and they all are relevant with different strokes for different folks I feel like the 2950 X however is probably the most relevant CPU out of this bunch of CPUs here because when it comes to just gaming none of these CPUs are the best value for money you're looking in either an 8700 K with a 1080i or you're looking at the 2700 X which are a lot less expensive and they do clock higher and furthermore you've then got the benefits of saving more money on your power supplies because you won't have to push as much power through these lower core count CPUs cheaper motherboards x4 70 and z3 70 and also a cheaper cooler to keep them cool so I will stress this again if you're just into gaming 2700 X and 8700 K are a lot better of a pick they will give you more performance in games and they will save you a lot of money in other areas too but if you are into streaming and heavy creativity and productivity but you want something that can still game then the 7900 X and the 2950 X are still very good choices and of course if you want all those cores and all those threads then those really expensive options are for you so really when it comes down to it there's a lot more CPUs nowadays in 2018 that are really getting specialized for different markets I think we're seeing a general segmentation of the market like we've never seen before but we're also seeing competition and value for money like we've never seen before as well and the 2950 X is an awesome choice coming in at $900 for someone who wants one of the best in slot CPUs from AMD it's going to have those improvements over the 1950 X and it's got better latency it's a refined process and you'll be able to overclock it higher and it will be power efficient than the previous generation is that worth the extra cost because I believe the 1950 X it's going from around $750 at the moment that it will be released later this month in August but in my opinion I think it's worth the premium to get that premium upgrade on the 29 50 X over the 1950 X especially me because I'm a manual overclocker I would set this thing to 4.2 gigahertz and just have happy days anyway guys I hope you enjoyed today's review if you did then be sure to hit that like button and if you have any questions or comments about AMD 16 core 32 thread behemoth then be sure to drop a comment in the comments section below always love hearing 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