AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Flagship CPU has been tested at stock & overclocked configurations, revealing some impressive performance.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Desktop CPU Achieves New Cinebench R23 World Record Under LN2 Cooling, Almost As Fast As 14900KS At Stock
During its Tech Day, AMD shared a range of performance benchmarks of its flagship Ryzen 9000 Desktop CPU, the Ryzen 9 9950X, which features 16 Zen 5 cores. The new chip was tested across various benchmarks at stock and overclocked configurations and it looks like the chip has bagged several world records ahead of its release.
Starting with the specifications, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X "100-000001277" CPU is the flagship offering with two Zen 5 CCDs and a single IOD. The CPU offers 16 cores, 32 threads, a base clock of 4.3 GHz, and a max boost clock of up to 5.7 GHz. It comes with 80 MB of cache (64 MB L3 + 16 MB L2) and has a TDP of 170W. Now in terms of clock speed, while the boost clock is identical to the Ryzen 9 7950X, the base clock is slightly dialed down by -200 MHz but we can expect a lot of efficiency coming out of this flagship product, especially in terms of multi-threaded performance.
In the benchmarks covered by QuasarZone, we can see that the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Zen 5 Desktop CPU scores 41,924 points at stock. This is almost on par with Intel's current flagship, the i9-14900KS. But as soon as the chip is tuned, it outperforms the 14900KS with an impressive lead. The CPU was overclocked up to 6.6 GHz across all 16 cores but for Cinebench R23, the maximum clock speeds were set to 6.3 GHz across all cores.
Cinebench R23 (Higher is Better)
With a PBO+EXPO tune, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU scores 43,905 points, with Curve Shaper, the chip scores 45,303 points and the maximum LN2 overclock that has been achieved so far is 53,557 which makes it the fastest Cinebench R23 16-core CPU ever benchmarked. Other tests include the Geekbench 6 single and multi-core tests which fall in line with what we have seen in previous leaks and there are also wPrime, 7-Zip, & Cinebench R15 (multi-thread) tests that were conducted during the overclocking session.
- Ryzen 9 9950X (LN2) - 53557 (127.7%)
- Ryzen 9 9950X (Curve Shaper) - 45303 (108.0%)
- Ryzen 9 9950X (PBO + EXPO) - 43905 (104.7%)
- Ryzen 9 9950X (Stock) - 41924 (100%)
The CPU couldn't beat the Intel Core i9-14900KS's world record which was achieved with a 7.5 GHz frequency across its 24 cores. The 14900KS LN2 score is 5% ahead of the Ryzen 9 9950X LN2 score.
Geekbench 6 ST Performance (Higher is Better)
Geekbench 6 MT Performance (Higher is Better)
Overall, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X "Zen 5" Desktop CPU is looking to be a really fast multi-threaded 16-core chip and we can't wait for the official launch which has been confirmed for the 31st of July.
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