A brand new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X benchmark leak means that AMD’s upcoming, 16-core flagship gaming CPU will probably be extremely environment friendly in comparison with the present competitors from Intel. The leak exhibits 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 somewhat 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, somewhat 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, had 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. In consequence, at 60W the chip would enhance its clock pace as excessive as 4,084MHz, growing to five,053MHz at 90W, after which to five,220MHz at 120W.
Notably, the latter determine is far decrease than the official enhance clock of the chip, which sits at 5,700MHz. Nevertheless, not solely had been these checks run on engineering pattern which will have barely decrease clock limits anyway, however that peak clock pace is usually solely achievable in single-threaded workloads, not a closely multi-threaded job equivalent to Blender.
Wanting 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 truly 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 recommend that AMD’s upcoming Zen 5 structure is ready to be extremely environment friendly and, at the very least till the rival Intel Arrow Lake chips arrive, will clearly be the one good selection for high-end CPU consumers after they launch. That’s, in fact, assuming they’re competitively priced.
One level to notice about these and different checks 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 type of app usually favors Intel’s present choices, as they have an inclination to have extra cores (due to 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 whole of 14 cores on the Core i5 14600K. The identical is true of a number of different multi-threaded workloads, so whereas the above checks recommend AMD’s Zen 5 chips would be the clear possibility throughout the board, sure Intel merchandise could find yourself providing a greater steadiness of efficiency and value in your wants in closely multi-threaded software program.
To be taught extra about AMD’s upcoming new CPUs, you’ll be able to try our Zen 5 information, and for extra of an thought of the general efficiency of AMD and Intel’s present CPUs, try our AMD Ryzen 7950X evaluation and our Intel Core i9-14900K evaluation, each of which embody a spread of benchmarks for each apps and video games.
