Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I upgraded my gaming and editing rig from a Ryzen 3 3100 to a Ryzen 9 5950X.
The Ryzen 9 5950X is an amazing CPU, and a real achievement for AMD, and x86 processors in general.
But it isn't the right choice for everyone.
Hopefully this video can provide a counter-argument against paying top dollar for AMD's top-of-the-line CPU.
In this video I test software video encoding performance, offline rendering performance, game performance with a mid-range GPU (GTX 1080 Ti) and of course the synthetic benchmarks that everyone likes to see.
I also discuss CPU utilization and how difficult this CPU is to saturate with work and keep cool with a cooler that *should* be more than enough for its TDP.
Bottoms up!
I upgraded my gaming and editing rig from a Ryzen 3 3100 to a Ryzen 9 5950X.
The Ryzen 9 5950X is an amazing CPU, and a real achievement for AMD, and x86 processors in general.
But it isn't the right choice for everyone.
Hopefully this video can provide a counter-argument against paying top dollar for AMD's top-of-the-line CPU.
In this video I test software video encoding performance, offline rendering performance, game performance with a mid-range GPU (GTX 1080 Ti) and of course the synthetic benchmarks that everyone likes to see.
I also discuss CPU utilization and how difficult this CPU is to saturate with work and keep cool with a cooler that *should* be more than enough for its TDP.
Bottoms up!
