Are You HURTING Your Game Performance? Ryzen 9 9950X3D CCD & SMT Testing

Are you hurting your gaming performance with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with SMT enabled? And what about that second CCD - is it worth your while switching off SMT if you're just playing games? Well in this video (and article linked below) I'll be testing just that. I'll benchmark multiple new and old titles with an RTX 5090, with ray tracing on and off to see just how much of a performance impact SMT on vs off makes in games. Naturally, the SMT benchmarking will also impact other Zen 5 based CPUs such as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D For the testing I'll run: Comparison tests are: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Both CCD's Enabled with SMT on Ryzen 9 9950X3D Both CCD's Enabled with SMT off Ryzen 9 9950X3D X3D Only Enabled with SMT On Ryzen 9 9950X3D X3D Only Enabled with SMT Off Ryzen 9 9950X3D Vanilla CCD Only Enabled with SMT On Ryzen 9 9950X3D Vanilla CCD Only Enabled with SMT Off Games tested with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D include Ratcher and Clank, Spider-man 2, Resident Evil 4, Cyberpunk and legacy titles like Rise of the Tomb Raider and Witcher 3. Testing performed on: Ryzen 9 9950X3D with Curve Optimizer -28 7600MTs Kingbank DDR5 AM5 NZXT N890E Motherboard ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 Astral Windows 11 All software and OS were updated to their latest version as of the time of benchmarking. Here's the article for more: https://redgamingtech.com/ryzen-9-9950x3d-smt-on-vs-off-ccd-scaling-in-games/ Overall, AMD seems to have done a lot of work on the optimization of their software, the windows scheduler has improved a lot too; and combined with developers having a lot more experience with the Zen architectures, generally in my findings performance might improve in some titles with SMT off, but in others Zen 5 performance suffers and SMT helps keeps threads to the 'right' CCD. Whokeys 25% off code：RGT Windows 11 Pro $23:https://biitt.ly/581eD Windows 10 Pro $17,6: https://biitt.ly/9f0ie Windows 10 Home $15:https://biitt.ly/XYm9o Office 2016 $28,8:https://biitt.ly/cy7Vb Office 2019 $53.6:https://biitt.ly/YInvw Buy MS Win 11 Pro OEM KEY GLOBAL at whokeys: https://www.whokeys.com/ #Windows11cdkey#techtips#whokeyswindows11 Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/user/RedGamingTech?sub_confirmation=1 Join our Discord - https://discord.gg/R8nZaxs Tip on PayPal - paypal.me/RedGamingTech AMAZON AFFILIATE LINKS US - https://amzn.to/2CMrqG6 Canada - https://amzn.to/2roF4XO UK - https://amzn.to/2Qi6LMS GreenManGaming Affiliate link - http://www.greenmangaming.com/?tap_a=2283-5d2ea6&tap_s=560536-752a47 SOCIAL MEDIA http://www.redgamingtech.com for more gaming news, reviews & tech http://www.patreon.com/redgamingtech - if you want to help us out! http://www.facebook.com/redgamingtech - Follow us on Facebook! https://twitter.com/RGTCrimsonRayne - Paul's Twitter https://twitter.com/RedGamingTech - Official Twitter Royalty-Free Music - www.audiomicro.com/royalty-free-music