AMD Ryzen 9 9950X vs. Ryzen 9 7950X/7950X3D For Workstation Graphics
There were nice gains seen with the ParaView 5.13 data analysis and visualization software with ParaView 5.13 on the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X compared to the prior generation Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7950X3D processors.
With some SPECViewPerf 2020 viewsets like SNX-04 there was no change in performance between these CPUs due to being GPU bound, but in other areas there were very healthy improvements like with CREO:
The PTC Creo viewset for that CAD software showed a 10% boost to the performance with the Ryzen 9 9950X over the Ryzen 9 7950X.
Creo also delivered good uplift on the Ryzen 9 9950X when running at 1440p.
The MAYA viewset for Autodesk Maya saw just about a 3% bump to the performance with the new Zen 5 high-end desktop processor.
The ParaView gains were more significant with the Ryzen 9 9950X over the Ryzen 9 7950X seeing up to about a 15% uplift over the Ryzen 9 7950X while for SPECViewPerf 2020 the gains were small to modest. Not as exciting as the results from the 400+ benchmarks of the Ryzen 9 9900X / 9950X in other CPU/system workloads but still for these workstation graphics/visualization software there were some gains to note. Not worth upgrading from the Ryzen 9 7900 series but if building an AM5 rig, the Ryzen 9 9900 series continues to impress on Linux in areas around scientific/technical computing, code compilation, and other workloads as observed across numerous Phoronix articles and yet more AMD Zen 5 Linux benchmarks continue.
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