{"id":115485,"date":"2020-11-05T20:24:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T04:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/amd-ryzen-9-5950x-and-5900x-review-zen-3-breaks-the-5-ghz-barrier"},"modified":"2020-11-11T22:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:26:35","slug":"amd-ryzen-9-5950x-and-5900x-review-zen-3-breaks-the-5-ghz-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/amd-ryzen-9-5950x-and-5900x-review-zen-3-breaks-the-5-ghz-barrier","title":{"rendered":"AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and 5900X Review: Zen 3 Breaks the 5 GHz Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amd-ryzen-9-5950x-and-5900x-review-zen-3-breaks-the-5-ghz-barrier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those that like really fast personal computers. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<p>Considering how powerful computers nowadays need to be, I think everyone will benefit overall.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>These workloads are comprised of a fixed amount of work, so we can plot the task energy against the time required to finish the job (bottom axis), thus generating a really useful power chart. Bear in mind that faster compute times, and lower task energy requirements, are ideal.<\/p>\n<p>This measure really separates the wheat from the chaff, and the best results fall to the lower left-hand corner of the chart. The Intel chips populate the less-desirable upper right-hand side. Although the Core i9-10980XE makes a valiant attempt to get down to Ryzen territory, it still can\u2019t match the previous-gen Ryzen 3000 processors in terms of efficiency. Meanwhile, the Ryzen 5000 series leverages the Zen 3 architecture to great effect and falls further inside the performance-per-watt sweet spot, marking a new level of efficiency for a modern desktop chip.<\/p>\n<p>To the world of enthusiasts that have long been pining for a huge gen-on-gen upgrade, AMD\u2019s Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X deliver an almost unbelievable amount of performance improvement over not only AMD\u2019s previous-gen Ryzen processors, but also over Intel\u2019s Comet Lake flagships. The fact that the Ryzen 9 chips regularly break the 5GHz barrier, even at stock settings, is simply icing on the cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those that like really fast personal computers. \ud83d\ude03 Considering how powerful computers nowadays need to be, I think everyone will benefit overall. These workloads are comprised of a fixed amount of work, so we can plot the task energy against the time required to finish the job (bottom axis), thus generating a really useful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115760,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115485\/revisions\/115760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}