AMD Ryzen 9 9950X “Zen 5” CPU Tested At 230W Power Limit, Up To 28% Faster Than 7950X & 34% Faster Than 14900K

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AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X "Zen 5" CPU boasts incredible performance at a TDP of just 160W, blazing past both the Core i9-14900K & Ryzen 9 7950X.

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X "Zen 5" Blazes Past 7950X & 14900K With Fully Unlocked 230W PPT, ES Chip Scores Massive 34% Lead

In his ongoing series of AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Blender performance tuning and testing, Anandtech forum member, Igor_kavinski has shown us how the 16-core flagship scales at lower TDPs within the Blender benchmark. So far, he has shown 60W,90W,120W, and 160W PPT results, and now, we have a new 230W PPT result that outperforms the Ryzen 9 7950X & Intel's top Core i9 chips.

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The chip being used by Igor's source is an engineering sample which should have slightly lower clocks than the retail chip. At 60W, the chip was able to come close to the Intel Core i9-12900K while boosting up to 4084 MHz, and at 90W, it was able to outperform the Ryzen 9 5950X while boosting up to 5053 MHz. At 120W, the chip beats all of the top current-gen processors from Intel and AMD while boosting up to 5555 MHz and the same is the case with the 230W result which takes things up a notch with the frequency now hitting above 5.6 GHz. Do keep in mind that the other chips tested here are running at their peak power ratings. It's only the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X ES CPU that has been tuned. To summarize it all:

• Ryzen 9 9950X (230W PPT) - 5620 MHz Peak Clock / 62C Temps
• Ryzen 9 9900X (160W PPT) - 5555 MHz Peak Clock / 58C Temps
• Ryzen 9 9950X (120W PPT) - 5220 MHz Peak Clock / 55C Temps
• Ryzen 9 9950X (90W PPT) - 5050 MHz Peak Clock / 49C Temps
• Ryzen 9 9950X (60W PPT) - 4084 MHz Peak Clock / 41C Temps

So coming to the 230W PPT test, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU clocked up to 5620 MHz which is still 80 MHz below its 5700 MHz official boost clock and the minimum clock speed at load was 5400 MHz. The maximum temperatures reached 62C and we can see that the chip