Watch our comprehensive AMD Ryzen 9000 review, focused on productivity [Video]

AMD’s next-gen Ryzen CPUs are huge, and… well, they’re a bit of a mixed bag. The delayed launch of the first chips — the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X — showed strong single-core performance, but multi-core performance lagged behind Intel.

Now that the top-tier Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X models are out, Gordon has taken a deep dive into the series’ performance on the PCWorld YouTube channel.

This is a long video that covers all of the new chips with exhaustive comparisons to both the previous-generation Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Intel’s 14th-generation competition.

If you don’t have 80 minutes to drink in every single point made in this review, then check the video description on YouTube for handy timecodes to all of the benchmark and game tests — or simply scroll down, right below, to where I’ve compiled them for your convenience:

• 00:00 – Intro
• 02:10 – Testing methods
• 10:34 – Cinebench multithread results
• 13:49 – Cinebench single thread results
• 16:49 – Blender results
• …