Intel Xeon W9-3495X “Sapphire Rapids” 56-Core CPU Achieves Cinebench R23 World Record

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Intel has regained the Cinebench benchmark crown at Hwbot with its latest Xeon W9-3495X "Sapphire Rapids" 56-Core CPU.

For a long time, AMD's Threadripper Pro 5995WX had reigned supreme on the Cinebench R23 CPU benchmark throne but that has come to an end as Intel has reclaimed the top spot with its newly released Xeon W9-3495X Sapphire Rapids flagship.

The Intel Xeon W9-3495X is a juggernaut of a chip that offers 56 Golden Cove cores, 112 threads, 112 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes, 105 MB of cache, and all of that in a 420W MTP package that can sip over 1000 Watts when overclocked. The CPU launches soon on retail but overclockers managed to had some fun with the chips on some insanely powerful motherboards.

The Cinebench-breaking feat was achieved by Team OGS of Greece during the ASUS OC Gathering 2023 who used the ASUS Pro WS W790E-SAGE SE, a $1200 US+ motherboard with the Xeon W9-3495X, a chip that costs almost $6000 US. The overclocking team used LN2 to push the CPU up to 5.4 GHz across all cores using LN2 cooling, which marks an increase of +184.21% over the default clocks. The CPU was paired with 128 GB of G.Skill's latest Zeta R5 RDIMMs.

Intel's Xeon W9-3495X achieved an impressive 132484 points in the multi-core Cinebench R23 test which is almost a 10% increase over the previous record holder, the Threadripper Pro 5995WX that achieved 121215 points in the same benchmark. The difference is that while the Threadripper was running at the same 5.4 GHz clocks using LN2 cooling, it offers more cores and threads (56/112 vs 64/128). This goes off to show that Intel definitely had the IPC advantage over Zen 3 cores but with Zen 4 Threadrippers on the horizon, this throne would not be for Intel to hold for long.

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