A brand new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X benchmark leak means that AMD’s upcoming, 16-core flagship gaming CPU might be extremely environment friendly in comparison with the present competitors from Intel. The leak reveals the AMD chip can match the efficiency of the Intel Core i9-14900K even when it’s restricted to only a 120W energy restrict.
The check of AMD‘s new greatest gaming CPU contender was reportedly run on the Blender 3D modeling app, however fairly than being a straight run of the brand new AMD chip, the check solely ran the CPU when restricted to varied energy limits. The check CPU can be an engineering pattern, fairly than a full retail pattern, so it has barely decrease peak energy scores.
The check runs, which come from Anandtech discussion board member ivor_kavinski, have been reportedly carried out at 60W, 90W, after which 120W energy limits, with the additional energy headroom permitting the chip to routinely enhance its clock speeds every time. Consequently, at 60W the chip would increase its clock velocity as excessive as 4,084MHz, rising to five,053MHz at 90W, after which to five,220MHz at 120W.
Notably, the latter determine is way decrease than the official increase clock of the chip, which sits at 5,700MHz. Nonetheless, not solely have been these exams run on engineering pattern that will have barely decrease clock limits anyway, however that peak clock velocity is mostly solely achievable in single-threaded workloads, not a closely multi-threaded job resembling Blender.
Trying on the outcomes, which we’ve replicated beneath, with the 9950X sat at 60W, it may nonetheless outperform an Intel Core i9-12900K, which pulled 241W to attain the identical rating. In the meantime, at 90W the chip sailed previous its Zen 3 predecessor, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, with that chip’s decrease scores being achieved at a 142W energy draw.
As for the 120W outcomes, these noticed the 9950X nearly precisely match the efficiency numbers of the Core i9 14900K, whereas that chip pulled 253W of energy. Curiously, AMD’s present 16-core champ, the Ryzen 9 7950X, was really the outright chief on this check, though it wasn’t all that far forward of the 9950X at 120W, regardless of the 7950X pulling 230W.
All this goes to counsel that AMD’s upcoming Zen 5 structure is about to be extremely environment friendly and, a minimum of till the rival Intel Arrow Lake chips arrive, will clearly be the one good selection for high-end CPU patrons once they launch. That’s, after all, assuming they’re competitively priced.
One level to notice about these and different exams utilizing the Blender app is that this software program is closely multi-threaded, and might take full benefit of as many cores as a CPU has to supply. As such, for low to mid-range CPUs, this kind of app usually favors Intel’s present choices, as they have a tendency to have extra cores (because of their low-power E-Cores) in comparison with competing AMD chips.
For instance, the AMD Ryzen 7600X has solely six cores in comparison with the entire of 14 cores on the Core i5 14600K. The identical is true of a number of different multi-threaded workloads, so whereas the above exams counsel AMD’s Zen 5 chips would be the clear possibility throughout the board, sure Intel merchandise might find yourself providing a greater steadiness of efficiency and value to your wants in closely multi-threaded software program.
To study extra about AMD’s upcoming new CPUs, you possibly can try our Zen 5 information, and for extra of an concept of the general efficiency of AMD and Intel’s present CPUs, try our AMD Ryzen 7950X evaluate and our Intel Core i9-14900K evaluate, each of which embrace a variety of benchmarks for each apps and video games.
