AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core “Zen 5” CPU Scores A Mammoth 108K Points In CPU-z Benchmark Leak

AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core "Zen 5" CPU Scores A Mammoth 108K Points In CPU-z Benchmark Leak 1

AMD's EPYC 9755 "Turin" CPU based on the Zen 5 core architecture has been tested and scores a massive performance in the CPU-z benchmark.

Yesterday, we got to see the first possible running sample of the AMD EPYC 9755 Turin CPU and now, HXL (@9550pro) has published the first benchmark result of the chip within CPU-z and the result is quite the deal.

The AMD EPYC 9755 CPU is part of the 5th Gen EPYC family, codenamed Turin, featuring 128 cores and 256 threads based on the Zen 5 core architecture. The CPU has a base clock of 2.70 GHz and is said to boost up to 4.10 GHz boost clock speeds. This marks a 33% increase in core/thread count & 11% increase in clock speeds. The CPU also features a huge pool of cache, with 512 MB of L3, 128 MB of L2, and 10 MB of L1, totaling 650 MB cache. This is an increase of 31% over the last EPYC flagship based on the Zen 4 architecture, the EPYC 9654 (Genoa).

EPYC 9755 "Zen 5" - 16 CCDs / 8 Cores Per CCD (128 Total) / 4 MB L3 Per Core (32 MB Per CCD) / 1 MB L2 Per Core (8 MB Per CCD) / 80 KB L1 Per Core (640 KB Per CCD) / 512 MB L3 + 128 MB L2 + 10 MB L1 = 650 MB Cache

EPYC 9654 "Zen 4" - 12 CCDs/ 8 Cores Per CCD (96 Total) / 4 MB L3 Per Core (32 MB Per CCD) / 1 MB L2 Per Core (8 MB Per CCD) / 64 KB L1 Per Core (512 KB Per CCD) / 384 MB L3 + 96 MB L2 + 6 MB L1 = 496 MB Cache

The performance of this heavy-weight server chip was tested in CPU-z in which it scored 653.7 points in the single-core test which is strong given the lower single-core clocks but the multi-core score is a phenomenal 108,093 points.

This is a mighty impressive score given that it breaks the 100K barrier with ease and while we can't tell whether this was a single-socket or dual-socket configuration, it is a grand one. With a score of 108K points, the Turin "Zen 5" chip sits at 14% faster than the fastest EPYC 9654 score that we were able to find (validation here for EPYC 9654 & EPYC 9754). This may be an early engineering sample and we can expect even better performance with the final silicon.

The performance posted by the AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" CPU also gives us an early glimpse of the next-gen Threadripper lineup based on the Zen 5 architecture. If EPYC can score over 100K points, then the Threadripper CPUs with much higher clock frequencies and added optimizations can easily be able to surpass the 120-130K barrier and possibly even touch 150K with overclocking. AMD's already dominating the server and workstation landscape with its recent Zen 4 offerings & with Zen 5, we can see these taken to the next level.