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9900X3D review with simulation of a 9600X3D by disabling a CCD :

 

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Whatever the heck happened to their RAM timings? Are boring slower speed kits now available at CL26 or are they using the expensive kits and downclocking those to 5200/5600 MT/s?
Unless specified otherwise they use stock settings for both frequency and latency, when the 9000 serie was released there were already fast RAMs well above 5600MT/s but they used CL32 timing, so they updated their benchs surely due to mature BIOSes but i know that they have very fast RAMs since they did ocked tests up to 7200-8000MT/s.
 
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at 1080P. Do people game at that resolution anymore ?

Especially with a 5090, and using DLSS?

Theyre trying to exacerbate the load on memory to get a performance difference. Seems like this goes right into the bin with the rest of reviews that test in unrealistic configurations for the sake of "isolating variables".

Edit: they also tested with a 9950X, which also exacerbates the memory load. What 5090 owner isnt rocking a 9800X3D or 9950X3D?
So I guess you guys would love this then. TLDR: 9800X3D sucks and is barely faster than 5800X3D.

I mean, come on...
 

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Ah yes, classic. Take our criticism of one extreme, hyperbolic scenario by suggesting an opposite, equally extreme, hyperbolic scenario.
Really, when testing CPU performance you want to test CPU performance. If it turns into GPU benchmark, what's the point? I don't know what you think is realistic scenario, but I don't know what kind of relevant data you going to get out of it.
 

Hail The Brain Slug

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Really, when testing CPU performance you want to test CPU performance. If it turns into GPU benchmark, what's the point? I don't know what you think is realistic scenario, but I don't know what kind of relevant data you going to get out of it.
I don't know what your point is supposed to be. I made clear what mine was - They went out of their way to create the most artificially memory-constrained gaming configuration they could to get exacerbated results and I doubt the real-world applicability of those results for several reasons I already stated.
 

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So they've tested single rank 2x16GB kits. Great? How does this compare to dual rank 2x32 or 2x48GB 6000C30 and 6000C28 kits (and the coming soon 2x48 6000C26 kits)
My tech budget is going to be out of control this year. 🤣
at 1080P. Do people game at that resolution anymore ?
I have older games that cap out at 1080p.

I am also certain there are other games that do see benefit.

Personally, the biggest FPS increase I got outside of a new GPU was from optimizing RAM timings.

EDIT: I don’t play AAA games. Most of my games are from indie devs or small studios.
 

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I don't know what your point is supposed to be. I made clear what mine was - They went out of their way to create the most artificially memory-constrained gaming configuration they could to get exacerbated results and I doubt the real-world applicability of those results for several reasons I already stated.

That's the entire point of the test. If you move the bottleneck somewhere else you're not going to get any useful information.

It's like trying to test soil quality effects on plant growth but not giving the plants any water. Congratulations on proving that soil quality doesn't matter I guess.

If you're testing any single component you put it in whatever setting can best demonstrate the effects, which means shifting the bottlenecks off of anything else.

Most people will never pair a GPU like a 5060 or a 9700 with a 9800X3D, but reviewers will still use that CPU when testing to ensure that the results they get for the GPU aren't limited by the CPU to the largest extent possible.

Yeah, no one really games at 720p or lower resolutions anymore, but if you want to test CPU gaming performance you need to move the bottleneck off of the GPU and other components to understand which CPU is better or whether one will last longer than another as far as future performance is concerned.
 

Hail The Brain Slug

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It's like trying to test soil quality effects on plant growth but not giving the plants any water. Congratulations on proving that soil quality doesn't matter I guess.
Your logic here is impeccable.

You have this backwards. The scenario they laid out is the unrealistic, "no water for plants" scenario and I am advocating for giving the plants normal amounts of water.

Edit: actually, it's more like they advocated for overwatering plants to ensure lack of water wasn't a limiting variable so they were only testing soil quality. Except the effect of soil quality when overwatering may not be applicable to when the plants receive a normal amount of water.
 

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9900X3D review with simulation of a 9600X3D by disabling a CCD :


AMD should not make 9900x3d as it's really just 6-core cpu - thus inferior to all other x3d models. Or if they want to make 12-core version at least they should do it asymmetric maintaining fully functional 8-core x3d die. Or at least sell that 6-core dual die chip at lower price than fully functional die parts.
 

Markfw

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AMD should not make 9900x3d as it's really just 6-core cpu - thus inferior to all other x3d models. Or if they want to make 12-core version at least they should do it asymmetric maintaining fully functional 8-core x3d die. Or at least sell that 6-core dual die chip at lower price than fully functional die parts.
Its a 12 core. Why do you say 6 core ????? Its 24 threads/cores.
 

naukkis

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Its a 12 core. Why do you say 6 core ????? Its 24 threads/cores.

For it's purposed use case -gaming AMD thread director disables 3d-cacheless chiplet. So it's only 6-core and inferior cpu to not only 9950x3d but also 9800x3d which have full 8-core x3d die. 9900x3d should not exists as it's lower grade cpu with higher price than 9800x3d. Only people that doesn't know about their relative performance will buy one - so AMD should stop being ass and just stop selling such a fraudulent product.
 

Markfw

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For it's purposed use case -gaming AMD thread director disables 3d-cacheless chiplet. So it's only 6-core and inferior cpu to not only 9950x3d but also 9800x3d which have full 8-core x3d die. 9900x3d should not exists as it's lower grade cpu with higher price than 9800x3d. Only people that doesn't know about their relative performance will buy one - so AMD should stop being ass and just stop selling such a fraudulent product.
and where did you read that ? about the thread director ?
 

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AMD should stop being ass and just stop selling such a fraudulent product.
There is no fraud. Independent reviews of this product exist.

it's really just 6-core cpu - thus inferior to all other x3d models.
It is not inferior if your workloads do not make use of more than 6 cores. (Including workloads which nominally use more than 6 cores but don't actually saturate them, for example because they are predominantly bottlenecked by performance of a single central program thread.)
 
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Markfw

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AMD does not hide it - x3d cpu's should park 3d-cacheless CCD when running games - and performance will suffer if it doesn't. So AMD has instructions how to monitor core parking at gaming.
How about a link please. Or it doesn't exist.
 

naukkis

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It is not inferior if your workloads do not make use of more than 6 cores. (Including workloads which nominally use more than 6 cores but don't actually saturate them, for example because they are predominantly bottlenecked by performance of a single central program thread.)
For those reasoning 5600x is not inferior to 5800x. But it is if workload scales beyond 6 cores - so AMD values those cpus right - 5600x is cheaper than 5800x. 9900x3d ain't valued right - it only have 6 core x3d die and pretty useless other 6 core die - for gaming that is inferior to 9800x3d and should be priced so. Users only buy that cpu over 9800x3d because they though it's better as it have more cores - if they look any review they can see that it ain't.
 
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