AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core CPU Benchmark Leak, Beats Intel Core i9-14900KS In Single-Core & Matches 14900K In Multi-Thread Test

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AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Desktop CPU has been benchmarked in Geekbench, scoring some impressive gains versus Intel's 14th Gen CPUs.

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core CPU Delivers A 16% Single-Core Performance Uplift Over 7900X, Crushes Core i9-14900KS In Geekbench Benchmark

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X "100-000000662" CPU is a 12-core and 24-thread variant. This chip has a base clock of 4.4 GHz and a boost clock of up to 5.6 GHz with a 76 MB cache. The interesting thing with this chip is that it has a TDP of 120W much lower than the 170W of Ryzen 9 7900X chips.

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Once again, while the chip retains the same boost clock speed as the Ryzen 9 7900X, the base clock sees a -300 MHz reduction which is once again to fit within the 120W power limit but once again, the 12-core should be able to boast some nice multi-threaded capabilities. Following are the TDP comparisons between the four chips of this generation with the prior one:

• Ryzen 9 7950X (170W) -> Ryzen 9 9950X (170W)
• Ryzen 9 7900X (170W) -> Ryzen 9 9900X (120W)
• Ryzen 7 7700X (105W) -> Ryzen 7 9700X (65W)
• Ryzen 5 7600X (105W) -> Ryzen 5 9600X (65W)

Coming to the performance benchmark, the chip was tested within the Geekbench 6 benchmark on an ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Gene motherboard with 32 GB of DDR5 memory. The chip was running at a peak frequency of above 5.6 GHz (5664 MHz). In terms of performance, the Ryzen 9 9900X scored 3401 points in the single-core test and 19,756 points in the multi-core test.

This puts the single-core performance of the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-core CPU ahead of the current fastest chip, the Intel Core i9-14900KS which scores around 3250 points in the single-core test and even the multi-core test is quite phenomenal for this 12-core part which is almost on par with the Core i9-14900K which scores around 20,500 points on average. Compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X 12-core, the Ryzen 9 9900X delivers a 16%