[00:04] little bit. This is my PC. I like my PC. It's beautiful. It's powerful. I can game in 4K at 240 frames on it. But today, we're making special one in particular in order to make it an absolutely goated PC. Not
[00:21] productivity, creative work like editing, 3D workflows. There was a comma in there. Video editing and 3D workflows and all the other things. This is the and all the other things. This is the new Ryzen 9 7950X3D
[00:34] inside this machine. This machine is red on the outside. inside. Now, I want to explain to you why building YouTubers are making multiple videos on this chip. So, I think let's
[00:49] do that while we build this PC. I think that while we build this PC. I think that makes the most sense. gaming and streaming, come on, baby. Doesn't Am I done?
[01:04] done screw it. There we go. When I'm gaming and streaming, I'm at my PC desk. When I'm doing creative work, productive work, 3D stuff, editing stuff, I'm at my Mac desk. I've been a Mac user
[01:19] for 20 years since before I got into video editing. It's actually what got me into video editing in the first place. I'm just really comfortable with Macs.
[01:32] paying the price for a 5090 though. Geez. Also, because by comparison, this is my Mac. Here. Let's do this. This is my M4 Pro Mac mini and it's great and it's tiny. But if Dustin sends me a pretty serious edit
[01:48] if Dustin sends me a pretty serious edit in DaVinci Resolve or Taking the whole motherboard out. Or I'm rendering something big in blender. It chugs. Like it's not built for that. It's this It's this big. So, I was
[02:03] planning on getting the new Mac Studio whenever that came out. How do you get this top piece off so I can unscrew all this? Do that. Okay. Which would be about $6,000.
[02:28] Okay. Put this to the side for now.
[02:41] Ryzen 9 processor. What do you need? What do I need? All this stuff. Bottle opener. All right. Have these over here, all All right. Have these over here, all these little things just in case.
[02:57] CPU like this, you end up choosing between a high-end CPU that favors game performance. It usually has fewer cores, like eight cores, and higher clock speeds for more frames. Or you end up choosing a productivity CPU if your
[03:12] 3D stuff. And those have more cores, but lower clock speeds. And these are great for the task that you picked them for, but you do get a pretty big performance hit on the other task. Usually like 30 to
[03:26] on the other task. Usually like 30 to 40%, but on the 9950X 3D, this thing is built with a similar architecture to those workstation CPUs, the higher core counts, but they added a lot of extra,
[03:39] actually double, of this thing called L3 cache, which is kind of like RAM that's super super high speed and it's built inside the high speed and it's built inside the CPU, and it gives significant gains in
[03:51] gaming. So, now you have a chip that's incredible with all the extra cores for your productivity work, your creative work like editing and 3D workflows. But, when you turn on a game, it kind of switches configurations and it's able to
[04:04] match, if not beat, the performance of their highest gaming chip, also. And not going to see benchmarks from me. I wouldn't want to put them in a sponsored video, anyway, because that wouldn't be as trustworthy. But, I spent like 3
[04:16] channels that do these benchmarks. I'll link to some of them down below, things like Gamers Nexus, JayzTwoCents. On every single benchmark, both gaming and every single benchmark, both gaming and creative, it was the number one chip
[04:29] across the board. It was always equal to the top gaming chip, the 3800X, by a margin of, you know, 2 to 3% sometimes. One would be above the other. In In than their top productivity chip, the 9950X,
[04:41] usually by like 5 to 10%. I mean, this thing is just an absolute monster. Let's get the M.2 drives in here. This one's the boot drive, 1 TB. Well, I like that. Sometimes they make these NVMe slots like puzzles to figure out how to get
[04:56] to. Ah, I have to get all four of them out. Four more slots, that's insane. And one of these is PCI Gen 4 and the rest are PCI Gen 5. Okay, both of these down here are Gen 4, these two are Gen 5. I
[05:10] appreciate a good labeled motherboard. That's a newish thing. clicks in. Back in my day, we had to screw the M.2s into place. And if we lost the screw, it was useless. I pulled
[05:25] put in this one, just out of trauma. So, here I was about to buy a $6,000 Mac Studio with a previous generation chip in it. If you don't know anything about Macs, then that won't make any sense to you why they did that.
[05:40] And I realized that I had this beefy machine sitting half a room away that I could use when I needed extra power. new Ryzen chip, I'm excited to see what
[05:55] frames I'm getting in the games and what opening DaVinci Resolve looks like. have to take a look. I know it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. I just for fun I want to show you the difference between running on a $2,300 Mac Mini
[06:09] whatever this is. And look, while we're on the topic of price, this video is sponsored by AMD. And so, I am going to say good things about this product. It is a good product. This is a high-end CPU with the highest-end specs of all
[06:22] are so many other good CPUs out there that you don't have to spend $700 on. but you're okay taking a small hit to productivity, get the 9800X 3D. If you want to build a monster PC for productivity, editing, 3D stuff, but you
[06:37] okay with not getting top-tier performance, get the 9950X. This video a PC, and I want to make sure that's clear. That being said, this $700 CPU did save me $6,000
[06:49] by having me not buy a brand new Mac Studio. That also wouldn't have gotten me any extra frames in my games. So, that is uh that is uh That's That's boy math.
[07:01] is. YouTuber math. Let's get this cooler on here and then put it back in the PC.
[07:21] spend on proprietary cable connectors. Like, "Hey, we need six pins, and make them in a shape that no one's ever made before." thermal paste built on it. I don't need any thermal paste here.
[07:42] Oh, I don't remember my last motherboard being this heavy.
[08:11] difference between my two workstations at this point. Here we have my prized The the 3-year-old, not the Mac Mini, but this is my Mac Mini and it's it's a pretty specked up Mac Mini. It's I'm going to say it's $2,400. You can get a
[08:25] solid PC for $2,400. And this is a timeline that we've got for a recent video. You see if I play it, we've got 6K footage going into here it, we've got 6K footage going into here on a 4K timeline.
[08:39] great, but we throw a lot of effects on these and if I throw our black mist these and if I throw our black mist filter on here,
[08:56] off a lot of effects while we're editing just to look just just for fun again. It's chugging. My 9950X 3D. I need a chair. Okay, so this is with the filter
[09:11] chair. Okay, so this is with the filter off. on. Filter is on.
[09:29] Wait, wait, wait. Can we see the frame rate in the corner? I think we can. dropped a single frame. Twitch and YouTube and everybody What
[09:43] was the frame rate? even consider for gaming We're getting about six frames a second. Almost six frames per second over here. Perfect frame rate. Over on this machine, I'm just very
[09:56] The workflow alone is about to get a lot quick, too. Let's see. Let's open up a game. What game are we opening up? Just the classic PUBG. Feel like it's our benchmark. If it can run PUBG, it can
[10:09] run anything. Case if you missed the recent videos, this is a 4K 240 Hz OLED monitor. Let's do overall graphics quality. Let's do them at Let's do them at medium. Yeah, look at that. Constant 220 frames. If you want to see what it's
[10:23] like gaming at 4K 240 We got a whole video on that. It is a wild experience. I'll link to it down below. We haven't dipped below 200 frames.
[10:36] if we go to high. Sitting around between 180 and 200 frames. What if we want to stream in 4K while we're playing in 4K 240? So, when I stream in 4K and
[10:48] enhanced broadcasting on Twitch and 4K on YouTube, I'm encoding at about 21,000 to be the recording encoding bit rate. Start this recording. Let's bring this back to medium settings. All right. Even while streaming in 4K, encoding at
[11:04] 21,000 kilobits per second, we're getting anywhere from 160 to 185, 190 frames per second. About a 10% drop.
[11:17] happens uh with the cores. When it recognizes the second eight cores. It only uses the first eight that have that extra 3D What is it? L3 cache? And so, you're only getting those extra fast cores that are
[11:32] really optimized for gaming. I'd be interested to know what happens if you fire up a live stream that while encoding could probably utilize the extra cores. Either way, regardless of how they do it, the performance is
[11:46] phenomenal. We're getting a super high-quality recording and getting a ton of frames in a game that's not very well optimized at good graphic settings. Yeah, this thing just saved me like 3 grand on a Mac Studio.
[12:00] Well played, Andy. Now, keep in mind, this is cream of the crop beast of a CPU and GPU, and it's out of the budget of a lot of people. There are a lot of great CPUs, especially by AMD, that specialize in one thing or the other thing and do
[12:14] both fairly well. So, if you don't have the budget or the need to go all out on a machine that just cranks out both use case scenarios, you don't have to do that. But, if you're like me and you do some serious gaming and some serious
[12:28] streaming and some serious creative work all on the same machine, this thing is bonkers. Let me know if you have any questions down below. I did, but I'm heading to NAB in Vegas in like
[12:40] 2 days. So, I'll see you guys in the next one. Happy streaming. Hit the like Subscribe. All the things. I love you guys. I'll see you next time.