The Technical Workloads Where AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D/7950X3D CPUs Are Excellent

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 9 March 2023 at 04:00 PM EST. Page 8 of 9. 34 Comments.
GPAW benchmark with settings of Input: Carbon Nanotube. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
GPAW benchmark with settings of Input: Carbon Nanotube. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.

The GPAW density-functional theory (DFT) code was enjoying some nice time savings with the Ryzen 9 7900X3D/7950X3D processors too in addition to the power savings advantage.

ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, First Run / Cold Cache. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, Third Run. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.

The ClickHouse database software also was delivering noticeably better performance on these AMD Zen 4 3D V-Cache processors, though depending upon the database size and number of unique queries the benefits may vary.

ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, Third Run. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, Third Run. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.

If you are heavily making use of ClickHouse but on a scale small enough that you can't justify AMD EPYC server processors, the performance-per-Watt benefit speaks volumes here for heavy ClickHouse use.

Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer, Model: Asian Dragon. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer, Model: Asian Dragon Obj. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon Obj. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.

Intel's Embree 4.0 ray-tracing engine was enjoying some benefits with the 3D V-Cache. particularly for the 7950X3D model.

Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon Obj. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.

Or needless to say, the X3D CPUs were very convincing when it came to the performance per Watt.


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