AMD’s Zen 5 Flagship, The Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core CPU, Has Leaked Out, Performance Benchmarks Show Strong Multi-Thread Chip
AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core "Zen 5" Desktop CPU has leaked out, giving us a new look at the performance of this beast.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Is The Latest Zen 5 Desktop CPU To Leak Out Within Geekbench Benchmark, Close To 14900K Performance
The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X "100-000001277" CPU is the flagship offering with two Zen 5 CCDs and a single IOD. The CPU offers 16 cores, 32 threads, a base clock of 4.3 GHz, and a max boost clock of up to 5.7 GHz. It comes with 80 MB of cache (64 MB L3 + 16 MB L2) and has a TDP of 170W. Now in terms of clock speed, while the boost clock is identical to the Ryzen 9 7950X, the base clock is slightly dialed down by -200 MHz but we can expect a lot of efficiency coming out of this flagship product, especially in terms of multi-threaded performance.
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The leak comes from the same user who has been testing the AMD Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" Desktop CPUs on the ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E HERO motherboard but this benchmark run is said to be running a single-channel memory configuration which can lead to drastically lower performance. The testbed is listed with 32 GB of DDR5-6000 memory (2-channel). Regardless, the CPU topped out at 5.73 GHz which is slightly above its boost clock and we might be looking at a non-PBO run which could explain the performance here.
The following articles cover the rest of the leaked scores for the Ryzen 9000 Desktop CPUs:
- Ryzen 9 9900X Geekbench Leak
- Ryzen 7 9700X Geekbench Leak
- Ryzen 5 9600X Geekbench Leak
Coming to the performance figures, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core "Zen 5" Desktop CPU scored 3359 points in the single-core and 20,550 points in the multi-core tests in Geekbench 6. Compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X, the Ryzen 9 9950X scored a 14% lead in the single-core test and a 7% lead in the multi-core test. Versus the Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core CPU, the 16-core chip
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