AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Benchmarks: The Best Desktop Performance For Linux Developers, Creators
Those wanting to see even more benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Linux can do so from this OpenBenchmarking.org result page. In total more than 300 benchmarks were run on the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and fellow current-gen desktop CPUs atop Ubuntu 26.04.
When taking the geometric mean of all those benchmarks in full that ran across all tested CPUs, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition came out to delivering 10% faster performance than the Ryzen 9 9950X/9950X3D. Or around 33% faster than Intel's new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor and the 285K flagship.
Besides the higher price at around $899 USD, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 does consume more power than the existing Ryzen 9 9950X series. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 during the span of these benchmarks was 184 Watts on average and a peak of 261 Watts. Meanwhile the Ryzen 9 9950X3D had a 165 Watt average and the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus at a 164 Watt average.
For developers, content creators, and students / open-source project maintainers / hobbyists relying on HPC/technical computing workloads and may not have the budget going for a Threadripper/EPYC class workstation, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 makes a lot of sense. While costing just $899 USD, in the heavy technical computing workloads can be significant time-savings that would easily justify the added cost over the other Ryzen 9 9950 series 16-core processors. There were some very meaningful wins with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 that make this the best current-generation Linux desktop processor.
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Among the workloads with the biggest gains going from the Ryzen 9 9950X3D to Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 were easyWave, PostgreSQL, Incompact3D, OpenFOAM CFD, OpenVINO, GNU Octave, SPECFEM3D, OpenRadioss, RELION, Whisper.cpp, and others that were delivering a 20% or more advantage to this Dual Edition CPU. For those cases and similar, the ~$100 price premium over the Ryzen 9 9950X3D could be easily justified given the significant time-savings if routinely engaging such applications.
Look for more AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Linux benchmarks on Phoronix to come and thanks to AMD for supplying the review sample for launch day testing on Phoronix.
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