AMD Ryzen 9 7950X prototype demolishes the 5950X in Cinebench R23

Recap: Last 7 days, AMD declared the 7000-sequence and scheduled its start for September 27. If you skipped our recap of the party, the bottom line is this: these processors will gorge by themselves on electric power to attain astronomical clock speeds but are or else quite comparable to their predecessors.

The Ryzen 9 7950X is AMD's flagship and will value $100 significantly less than the 5950X, $700. It has 16 cores / 32 threads, 5.7 GHz enhance, and 4.5 GHz base clocks. Those people speeds, an greater cache capability, and other IPC advancements culminate in what AMD says is a 29% solitary-core functionality acquire about the 5950X.

So it should not be astonishing to see it flying previous the 5950X in the first leaked benchmarks. Like the 7700X and 7600X, the 7950X has been set by means of the paces in the Cinebench R23 render examination.

Enthusiasts in China obtained quite a few engineering and manufacturing samples and started out publishing benchmark results past week. Some of their posts have previously been taken down, but better scores preserve showing up day-to-day. All of them declare that their scores were attained without overclocking, which is plausible provided that the flagship Ryzen processors already have notoriously tiny overclocking headroom.

Nevertheless, get these figures with a grain of salt. The maximum multi-main score achieved so far is 38,984 details. It comes from a screenshot of an engineering sample managing the benchmark shared to the Chiphell message boards.

In a different case in point, Twitter user "Raichu" scored 37,452 details with a creation sample. Raichu also shared some extra info: their CPU experienced an all-main clock velocity of 5.1 GHz and eaten 240 W in the course of the benchmark, ensuing in temps of up to 96° C inspite of a 360 mm AIO watercooler.

Screenshots of nonetheless another creation sample running the benchmark posted to Baidu display the processor strike a rating of 36,256 factors with an unspecified water cooling answer. The exact same processor only reached 29,649 factors when it had just an air cooler (not a extremely great one particular, evidently).

For some context, the 5950X can be pushed to ~30,000 details with minimal effort and ordinarily lands in the ballpark of 25,000 - 30,000 details in most techniques. It can go higher, but it also runs into temperature complications. Becoming a bit generous and employing 30,000 as a baseline, the 7950X is 20-30% speedier than these leaked benefits, which is ideal close to that 29% figure that AMD promised.

For people prepared to choose it with an extra massive assisting of salt, you can also compare the 7950X outcomes towards the leaked Intel Main i9-13900K final results from very last month. Intel's future flagship realized a score of 40,616 details while consuming more than 340 W and 35,693 details whilst minimal to 240 W.

As opposed to the 5950X and 13900K, the 7950X proves by itself a deserving inheritor of the Ryzen crown in Cinebench R23 if those people figures are valid. Stay tuned for our impending critiques of the 7950X and the 7900X, 7700X, and 7600X, when we are going to give you a extensive assessment.