AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Linux Performance
Those wanting to go through around 400 benchmarks for all these processors can see this result file for all of my raw data in full.
On a geo mean basis for this wide span of hundreds of benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D is slightly faster than the 9900X and still around 7% faster overall than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake desktop processor. Compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X3D, is 1.25x the performance as a nice generational improvement.
The Ryzen 9 9900X3D power consumption on average was 124 Watts with a recorded peak of 168 Watts, similar to the Ryzen 9 9900X and below the CPU power levels of the Ryzen 9 9950X series.
Generationally going from the Ryzen 9 7900X3D to 9900X3D were some very significant gains across a wide variety of workloads... Lots of areas where this Zen 4 to Zen 5 3D V-Cache upgrade provides very meaningful improvements while retaining compatibility with AM5 motherboards and DDR5 memory.
Similarly, a lot of areas where the Ryzen 9 9900X3D performance is a big improvement over the Ryzen 9 9900X. HPC / technical computing workloads like ASKAP, CloverLeaf, easyWave, Pennant, OpenFOAM CFD, srsRAN, Incompact3D, and others were all big winners with the Ryzen 9 99000X3D over the 9900X. Plus AI workloads like OpenVINO. Some conventional server workloads like the ClickHouse database benefited nicely. But the Ryzen 9 9900X3D priced at $599 USD makes it a tougher proposition where as the Ryzen 9 9950X3D can be had for just about $100 more and in some workloads like the Ryzen 9 9950X is faster than the 9900X3D with its 16 cores while costing around $50 less.
One of the areas where the Ryzen 9 9900X3D can make sense would be for some local/edge AI inferencing workloads where the Ryzen 9 9900X3D did outperform the Ryzen 9 9950X while having the lower TDP than the 9950X/9950X3D can be practical for thermal/power purposes. Again, see this result page if wanting to dig through the hundreds of individual benchmarks and power data for helping to make a more informed Ryzen 9000 series purchasing decision depending upon your Linux workloads of interest.
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