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AMD’s new Zen 5 CPUs fail to impress during early reviews
AMD promised big performance improvements that it failed to deliver.
Hardware Unboxed has tested a variety of productivity workloads and games with the 9950X and the results make the previous generation Ryzen 9 7950X chip look like better value in most cases. 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. Steve Burke over at Gamers Nexus has similar findings, concluding that the 7950X is better value for productivity workloads and that the 7800X3D that we reviewed last year is still the better chip for gaming overall.
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