AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Delivers Excellent Performance For Linux Developers, Creators & Technical Computing
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 11 March 2025 at 09:00 AM EDT. Page 4 of 10. 116 Comments.
Intel's Embree ray-tracing kernels performed better with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D while not consuming any extra power.
Turning to more technical computing workloads like the OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamics software, there continues to be excellent benefits here to using AMD processors with 3D V-Cache... Very nice speed-ups over the Ryzen 9 9950X and also the prior-generation Zen 4 X3D processors.
There were very nice gains too with Altaur's OpenRadioss software from using the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with 3D V-Cache. In several tests the Ryzen 9 9950X3D now bumped the Core Ultra 9 285K out of the top spot.
Similarly, with the GPAW DFT program the Ryzen 9 9950X3D now secured the top spot while consuming less power than the Core Ultra 9 285K.