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All of these benchmarks are not useful unless they’re maxing out memory speeds. If you’re buying the top of the line cpu, you’re also buying the fastest ram.

7950x3d is limited to ddr5 6000 while 14900 can do ddr5 8000.

The benchmarks you shared are using ddr5 6000. So by upgrading the ram, the 14900 should come out on top. The memory controller is a key part of the cpu. It makes sense to test them with the best components they are able to use. I know it probably doesn’t matter, but if you’re chasing those last 5% of performance fast ram is a better value than custom water cooling.



I would love to see some data to back that up. I expect L3 cache to have a much more drastic difference than memory bandwidth.




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