AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X 16-Core, 32-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor

Got lucky with the silicon on this chip — absolute beast once you dial it in. I’ve got it running with an all-core CO at -30, no boost override, and stability is flawless. Also tweaked VCORE SOC and VDDG CCD/IOD in BIOS to keep memory and fabric happy, which made a huge difference. Temps stay cool even under full load thanks to a custom Corsair loop, and no crashes or throttling anywhere. Easy to install, compatible with X870 mobos and the power consumption top tier. Handles everything I throw at it — gaming, streaming, multitasking — buttery smooth. If you’re comfortable fine-tuning BIOS settings, there’s a lot of performance headroom here without sacrificing stability. Pair it with good cooling and this CPU will absolutely fly.

Solid performing for all my games. I did hold off on upgrading ever since my ryzen 7 2700x. I pushed that as far as it would go before buying this. I have been very happy with the Ryzen series. This runs everything fast and smooth for both gaming and every day computing.

Awesome CPU handles everything I throw at it, (games, analysis software, CAD, programming). Had some issues during installation needed new bios but worked instantly post update. I also own the 5950x and 7900x, which still work great, however this one blows past the previous gens. Temps run 40s and 60s but never goes beyond 80.

Great product! I managed to bring temp down to 70-75 degrees with a good fan (almost no noise) and undervolting (1.1 V, 5.1 GHz) with just a few percent of CPU performance drop in tests. Totally satisfied.

I installed this card in my recent PC build, and it has completely exceeded my expectations. I paired this with an AMD Radeon 9070xt GPU and use a 3-fan liquid cooling unit on the CPU. In real use, this thing is a workhorse. In Blender, viewport performance is buttery smooth even with complex scenes, heavy geometry, and high-resolution textures. Cycles renders are significantly faster and tasks like baking, denoising, and simulation previews feel far less painful than before. In Unreal Engine 5, the card absolutely shines. Lumen, Nanite, and high-quality lighting run with far fewer stutters than I expected, even in detailed environments. Large open worlds load quickly, and I can work at higher settings without constantly worrying about frame drops or performance bottlenecks. For game development and 3D work, it feels like I finally have headroom instead of constantly fighting hardware limits.

I bought an ASUS PC which came with an 8700F. Since it is AM5, I decided to upgrade from 8 cores to 16 and this was worth every penny. Performance speaks for itself.

This is a great all rounder CPU. Working on building a computational homelab set-up to test before using big servers. May eventually take over most tasks intended for the server haven't run near 100 utilization yet as it scales up for multi threading so well. To beat make use of this I only wish I took the 128gb ram upgrade when I had a chance, too expensive to grab another 64gb. Complete overkill for gaming.

This is a brilliant processor at a reasonable price. So why not 5 stars? Well the reason is the 9950X3D. Yes, it carries a considerable price premium, but it has the same base clock speed (4.3GHz) and the cache is able to mitigate the limitations of intra-chiplet communications. The result is that, in business applications, the 9950X3D is approx 2% faster than the 9950X. But the real gain comes in gaming where the 9950X3D is, at time of review, simply the fastest gaming CPU on the market. Hence the premium price. I installed my 9950X on an ASUS ROG STRIX X670E A-gaming motherboard with 32GB of high performance DDR5 memory. There were no issues configuring the board or loading Windows 11 Pro. I thoroughly recommend using a water-to-air heatsink for this CPU and motherboard combination. The problem is that most modern gaming cards seem to use through-card cooling, which means hot air is blown direct onto a chip-mounted heatsink! Not good news! A water-to-air cooler, mounting the fins at the front or top of the machine, solves this issue. The 9950X (or X3D version) needs good heat dissipation! Overall, this is a cost effective CPU that offers fantastic performance and is easy to setup on the 670E chipset motherboards. Memory ran at the recommended sweet spot without problems, and provided you employ just two sticks of RAM, you should have no problems. AMD CPU's have the momentum from Intel. I was even able to buy a 9060XT (16GB) at close to the RRP! Can I recommend this CPU? Absolutely. Even doing data science and perform mathematical transforms on Very Large Datasets, I see no slow down in performance after several hours of maxing-out the cores. Would I buy the 9950X3D over the 9950X? Yes, but unless you are a hardcore game, the 9950X is the better choice when you're on a budget.

CPUn slutade plötsligt att fungera efter ca 4 månader i ett nytt system. Enligt lag ska denna CPU gå att få utbytt. Men detta visar sig omöjligt.

Ótimo processador. Melhorou bastante meus trabalhos que envolvem muito o uso do processador.

Absolute monster of a CPU , glad I didn't buy the x3d

Ich habe diese CPU nach langer Überlegung und Recherche gekauft. Die Daten waren vielversprechend. Die Ryzen 9 Serie hatte unter Windows anfangs Probleme, die am Windows lagen, denn unter Linux waren sie von anfang an Leistungs-Monster. Diese CPU ist absolute Spitze. Einige erste Erfahrungen: 20 Minuten FullHD Video in AV1 oder HEVC werden in unter 2 Minuten gecoded ... im Powersave Mode AV1-FullHD wird mit links gecoded, wieder im Powersave. Auch 4K schafft sie spielen, hier fehlt aber noch eine geeignete Capture-Karte für ausführliche Tests. Zum Vergleich: ein Ryzen 7 5800 oder 3800 verschluckt sich bei AV1-Videos hoffnungslos. Der Linux Kernel default wir im phoronix Benchmark in 45 Sekunden kompiliert, bei mir 46 Sekunden. Damit schließt er an die Spitzengruppe der CPUs an, und das zu einem 6tel bis 20tel des jeweiligen Preises. Die CPU läuft bei mir fast durchgängig im Powersave, selbst wenn ich damit 60 virtuelle Maschinen gleichzeitig betreibe. Nur selten schalte ich sie mal auf den "normalen" Modus "balanced". D.h. sie ist auch meistens deutlich kühler als 60°. Ich habe "nur" eine leistungsfähige Luftkühlung eingebaut, werde jetzt aber mal einen Wasserkühler testen, denn mit Luftkühlger (beQuiet 5 Rock) kann sie schon einmal für wenige Sekunden bei maximaler Leistung 94 ° C Spitze erreichen, normal sind allerdings 58-80°, je nach Last. Die Leistung ist absolut fantastisch. Was immer ich ihr aufgebe macht sie mindestens 5-10 Mal schneller als mein Ryzen 7 5800, von meinen diversen Intel CPU ganz zu schweigen. Was spricht gegen diese CPU? Wenn man diese ungeheure Leistung nicht benötigt, als für's Büro, macht sie keinen Sinn. Für Video-Bearbeitung oder Gaming ist sie exzellent, unter Linux dürfte die Kodier-Leistung der der berühmten M-Prozessoren von Arm nahe kommen. Auch im Gaming ist sie exzellent, vor allem wenn man die ca 250-300 Euro Mehrpreis für die 3D-Variante scheut, die dann noch mal je nach Anwendung zwischen 1% bis 20% mehr Leistung liefert. Der Ryzen 9 9950X hat ein exzellentes Preis-Leistungverhältnis. Für anspruchsvolle PC-Aufgaben, dir vor allem massives Multitasking oder Video-Kodierung verlangen, eine klare Kaufempfehlung. Besondere Empfehlung für Linux, hier spielt die CPU ihre ganze Leistung vollkommen ungebremst aus.

I was confused between intel and amd, and I got the point where this has slight better performance than the competitor. So I got it immediately