When AMD's latest flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor was released two days ago, well-known hardware review media Gamers Nexus publicly accused AMD of deliberately screening review media. Since the official test samples were not received in advance,Gamers Nexus borrowed samples from other media to complete a 24-hour extreme test, and gave an unsparing conclusion: "Don't Buy."
Actual measurement data shows that the performance of this flagship processor, which sells for US$899 (domestic price of 6,999 yuan), is far below expectations. In terms of game performance, compared with 9950X3D, the improvement of 9950X3D2 is only between 0% and 6%.
Productivity applications are also weak, with improvements in Blender rendering and editing software remaining at 0% to 9%, and part of the improvement comes from higher TDP and frequency, rather than the dual V-Cache design itself.
The only bright spot among the 24 tests was the OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamics test, in which the 9950X3D2 achieved a 34% performance leap, but this is only meaningful to a very small number of scientific research users who rely on large-capacity caches and has nothing to do with mainstream consumers.
Gamers Nexus pointed out that the core problem of 9950X3D2 is the extremely poor price/performance ratio.Gamers can get almost the same or even better gaming experience by spending less than half the price on the 9800X3D.
Productivity users can choose the US$500 9950X. The actual performance gap is not obvious. Even the Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus sells for only about US$350, and it is indistinguishable from this flagship in many productivity tests.
The 9950X3D2 adopts a design with dual CCDs equipped with V-Cache, which theoretically solves the problem of confusion in task allocation by the Windows scheduler, but actual measurements have proven that this improvement has minimal contribution to actual performance.
For the vast majority of consumers, the money saved is enough to upgrade the graphics card to a higher level.
