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System Name | RogueOne |
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Processor | Xeon W9-3495x |
Motherboard | ASUS w790E Sage SE |
Cooling | SilverStone XE360-4677 |
Memory | 128gb Gskill Zeta R5 DDR5 RDIMMs |
Video Card(s) | MSI SUPRIM Liquid 5090 |
Storage | 1x 2TB WD SN850X | 2x 8TB GAMMIX S70 |
Display(s) | 49" Philips Evnia OLED (49M2C8900) |
Case | Thermaltake Core P3 Pro Snow |
Audio Device(s) | Moondrop S8's on Schitt Gunnr |
Power Supply | Seasonic Prime TX-1600 |
Mouse | Razer Viper mini signature edition (mercury white) |
Keyboard | Wooting 80 HE White, Gateron Jades |
VR HMD | Quest 3 |
Software | Windows 11 Pro Workstation |
Benchmark Scores | I dont have time for that. |
Hey,
I am building a fun system; more of a project then something that will replace my main system and was shopping around for a CPU for the motherboard I chose. Now given the nature of this machine the CPU itself didn't matter as much, but my curiosity lead me to the 9950X3D review (which is what I decided to go with,.)
www.techpowerup.com
I have to say I REALLY appreciate this format. There is a lot of data and extra testing in written form like this, or at least from you @W1zzard specifically then I can really find online for consumer products. Generally I am working with server or workstation which understandably aren't generally benchmarked and put on tech sites. However; the cross over for people like me matters.
Specifically:
Starting with probably the most common of the uncommon tests due to rising popularity is the AI tests.
www.techpowerup.com
Classification, upscaling and the training portion being what I care the most about. If I make one recommendation, if possible I would look into updating and moving to a new GPT model or one of the other new models available. GPT-2 is great for consistency, but at least imo not so much for relevance.
The next would be the AV page:
www.techpowerup.com
Not a lot on this page, but I appreciate the Altium benchmark (I also think you have done pcbway before?) I admit that for the most part anything modern leaves little benefit to smaller projects like the ones I do (badges and cards) I do pay attention to it and information like this is almost impossible to get elsewhere.
Finally the workstation tests:
www.techpowerup.com
All are valuable to me in some regard. I don't use vbox professionally of course. The systems I generally touch are the big 3, Hyper-V, VMWare, Nutanix. With a ton of experience in Proxmox and XCP-NG. But I can do my own tests and see if I am in the ballpark of your numbers, and while I think its a concession to even get this test, and this CPU is not going to be anywhere near the production OSs listed above it might be nice to one day see one tested instead. It would also be neat to maybe benchmark a local docker install, be it windows or otherwise. (since I see a lot of devs spinning local sessions for testing before commit.)
Databases are really important, this tells me a lot about the architecture in general, and while this data is more readily available there are some cases in which enterprise trails consumer; specifically with refreshes, so its nice to get this data ahead of time. I would appreciate a Postgres addition though.
Web hosting is important to me personally, and I always look at it. ASP isn't something I generally deal with but SharePoint and other apps are built on it so it matters. It would be nice to see something like nginx one day though. Even if its less app and more server.
Honorable mentions:
www.techpowerup.com
These tests don't concern me much at all, since the clock rate of consumer CPUs is too high compared to what I will be dealing with. While the throughput of multi threaded apps is generally hundreds of times higher on the CPUs I'm used to dealing with, (which makes these comparisons almost impossible because I cant really project performance based on these clock rates) I always find myself looking at the cryptographic portion. A lot of specialty data is handled on ASICs and other custom boxes where I work and with what I deal with, but I still use a ton of COTS parts and machines to serve VPNs encrypt data in other ways etc and its nice to see these results.
and:
www.techpowerup.com
Thanks for the C++ compile times.
I think there is likely a surprising amount of readership that looks at these pages, even if the comments in most of your reviews for both CPU and GPUs center more around the gaming or more consumer workloads, and that's understandable given TPUs target audience, but I am sure I speak for at least a handful of us that do pay attention to pages like the above where things like that can impact us professionally, and you are one of the few people that actually do it. So thanks a ton for that.
I am building a fun system; more of a project then something that will replace my main system and was shopping around for a CPU for the motherboard I chose. Now given the nature of this machine the CPU itself didn't matter as much, but my curiosity lead me to the 9950X3D review (which is what I decided to go with,.)

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review - Great for Gaming and Productivity
The new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D brings Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache to the high-end. This new $700 flagship offers the best application performance, beating even the 9950X, and at the same time you get a fantastic gaming experience that's better than any other non-X3D processor on the market.
I have to say I REALLY appreciate this format. There is a lot of data and extra testing in written form like this, or at least from you @W1zzard specifically then I can really find online for consumer products. Generally I am working with server or workstation which understandably aren't generally benchmarked and put on tech sites. However; the cross over for people like me matters.
Specifically:
Starting with probably the most common of the uncommon tests due to rising popularity is the AI tests.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review - Great for Gaming and Productivity
The new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D brings Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache to the high-end. This new $700 flagship offers the best application performance, beating even the 9950X, and at the same time you get a fantastic gaming experience that's better than any other non-X3D processor on the market.
Classification, upscaling and the training portion being what I care the most about. If I make one recommendation, if possible I would look into updating and moving to a new GPT model or one of the other new models available. GPT-2 is great for consistency, but at least imo not so much for relevance.
The next would be the AV page:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review - Great for Gaming and Productivity
The new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D brings Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache to the high-end. This new $700 flagship offers the best application performance, beating even the 9950X, and at the same time you get a fantastic gaming experience that's better than any other non-X3D processor on the market.
Finally the workstation tests:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review - Great for Gaming and Productivity
The new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D brings Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache to the high-end. This new $700 flagship offers the best application performance, beating even the 9950X, and at the same time you get a fantastic gaming experience that's better than any other non-X3D processor on the market.
All are valuable to me in some regard. I don't use vbox professionally of course. The systems I generally touch are the big 3, Hyper-V, VMWare, Nutanix. With a ton of experience in Proxmox and XCP-NG. But I can do my own tests and see if I am in the ballpark of your numbers, and while I think its a concession to even get this test, and this CPU is not going to be anywhere near the production OSs listed above it might be nice to one day see one tested instead. It would also be neat to maybe benchmark a local docker install, be it windows or otherwise. (since I see a lot of devs spinning local sessions for testing before commit.)
Databases are really important, this tells me a lot about the architecture in general, and while this data is more readily available there are some cases in which enterprise trails consumer; specifically with refreshes, so its nice to get this data ahead of time. I would appreciate a Postgres addition though.
Web hosting is important to me personally, and I always look at it. ASP isn't something I generally deal with but SharePoint and other apps are built on it so it matters. It would be nice to see something like nginx one day though. Even if its less app and more server.
Honorable mentions:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review - Great for Gaming and Productivity
The new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D brings Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache to the high-end. This new $700 flagship offers the best application performance, beating even the 9950X, and at the same time you get a fantastic gaming experience that's better than any other non-X3D processor on the market.
These tests don't concern me much at all, since the clock rate of consumer CPUs is too high compared to what I will be dealing with. While the throughput of multi threaded apps is generally hundreds of times higher on the CPUs I'm used to dealing with, (which makes these comparisons almost impossible because I cant really project performance based on these clock rates) I always find myself looking at the cryptographic portion. A lot of specialty data is handled on ASICs and other custom boxes where I work and with what I deal with, but I still use a ton of COTS parts and machines to serve VPNs encrypt data in other ways etc and its nice to see these results.
and:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review - Great for Gaming and Productivity
The new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D brings Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache to the high-end. This new $700 flagship offers the best application performance, beating even the 9950X, and at the same time you get a fantastic gaming experience that's better than any other non-X3D processor on the market.
Thanks for the C++ compile times.

I think there is likely a surprising amount of readership that looks at these pages, even if the comments in most of your reviews for both CPU and GPUs center more around the gaming or more consumer workloads, and that's understandable given TPUs target audience, but I am sure I speak for at least a handful of us that do pay attention to pages like the above where things like that can impact us professionally, and you are one of the few people that actually do it. So thanks a ton for that.
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