I make no apologies for the geeky pleasure I get watching a 56-core CPU just monster this benchmark

pcgamer.com:

If you fancy a little light, safe-for-work CPU pr0n then overclocking maestro, Roman ‘der8auer’ Hartung, has got their hands on an Intel Sapphire Rapids workstation processor and is starting to put it through its paces. 

This quick video(opens in new tab) starts with an intro to the new high-end desktop chip running in Intel's overclocking labs, doing some Geekbench testing at 4.2GHz on all of the chip's 56 Performance-cores. It's running on a development platform, so not a retail setup, but still der8auer is able to show the system smashing the current record for Geekbench 5, set by an AMD Threadripper Pro 5995WX.

That record sits at 48,025(opens in new tab) points, while the Sapphire Rapid chip is shown delivering a score of 53,817. Though it took a lot of power to get there. Even though the Intel Xeon W9 3495X monster CPU is only running at 1v, the video shows power spikes for the entire system sometimes getting close to the 1,100W point. Hell, the damned thing's idling at 364W.

The real geeky pleasure I derive from the little addendum to the video, however, is where der8auer actually has the final chip in their hand, at home in Germany, and chucks this mass of computational silicon at the more familiar Cinebench R23 benchmark.

Watching all 56 cores and 112 threads of peak Intel Performance-core processing power chewing through the admittedly bland render scene is something that I still cannot help but enjoy. What can I say? I'm a PC component nerd. I've been sat in the office watching that same benchmark quite a lot recently, as I put another unreleased high-end gaming CPU through its paces.

Der8auer hasn't had a chance to overclock the chip themself yet, and so the Cinebench run is the 56-core processor going