AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Linux Performance
Out of the 190+ benchmarks run, if just dicing it into the Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs. Ryzen 7 9850X3D, for the benchmarks with a statistically significant difference the result comes down to:
The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D was commonly delivering 3~7% better performance over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. That's a fair showing considering the Ryzen 7 9850X3D key difference is the +400MHz (7%) increase to the maximum boost clock speed. Considering it's just a $30 premium over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is a nice option for those looking at a sub-$500 processor with 8-cores / 16-threads with great performance in areas of gaming, web browsers, Ngspice circuit simulations, CPU-based AI real-time inferencing, Python scripting, and related areas.
Ove the span of all the benchmarks conducted, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D was 2.6% faster overall than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. On a geo mean basis it also edged past the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K that retails for around $579. For those mostly running multi-threaded workloads like creative applications, code compilation, and video encoding, the AMD Ryzen 9 9900 series remain the best desktop processors available to buy this quarter.
The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU power consumption overall was just around 4 Watts higher than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
Overall the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is an interesting addition to the Ryzen 9000 series family at $499 USD. The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D was working well under Linux and will be hitting retail channels tomorrow. Thanks to AMD for providing the review sample for today's Linux benchmarking.
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