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Re:Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster by sliken on Saturday August 09, 2025 @01:20AM (#44844197)
Across the board, by a large margin? Phoronix ran 200 benchmarks on the 9950x vs 395x max and found a difference of less than 5%. Not bad considering the average power use was 91 watts vs 154 watts.

If you need the memory bandwidth the strix halo looks good, if you are cache friendly and don't care about using almost double the power than the 9950x is a better deal.

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Re:Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster by jeffbee on Saturday August 09, 2025 @12:15PM (#44847725)
The way Phoronix weights an average score for a machine is ridiculous, because there aren't any users who do all of machine learning, fluid dynamics, video compression, database hosting, and software development, and games on the same machine. I looked at the applications that matter to me and the 9950X wins by 40% in those.
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