AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X is the first Zen 5 CPU to make an appearance at PassMark, showcasing great single and multi-core performance.
New benchmarks of AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X CPU, a high-end Zen 5 chip, have appeared within the PassMark database. This is the first time a Ryzen 9000 CPU has popped up at PassMark and we're looking at some decent performance figures for this upcoming chip which will be launching later on the 15th of August.
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.
The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X "Zen 5" CPU scored 53,863 points in multi-core tests and 4,652 points in the single-core tests. The single-core performance seems to be very close to Intel's Core i9-14900K which scores around 4700-4750 points while the multi-core performance of the chip tends to be slightly faster than the Intel Core i7-14700K which scores around 53,400 points.
The Core i7-14700K is a 20-core chip with boost clocks above 5 GHz while the Ryzen 9 9900X is a 12-core chip. Even the Core i9-14900K has boost clocks of up to 6.0 GHz which is a +400 MHz clock speed bump over the Ryzen 9 9900X. The CPU is also 9% faster in single-core and around 4% faster in multi-core tests versus the Ryzen 9 7900X CPU.