AMD Ryzen 9 9950X “Zen 5” Flagship CPU Benchmarked With 6 GHz Overclock, Up To 20% Faster Than Stock Chip

AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X "Zen 5" CPU featuring 16 cores has been benchmarked with a 6.0 GHz overclocking & showcases impressive performance.

The performance of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Desktop CPU is no mystery now. We have seen how the chip performs at both stock and overclocked configurations in various tests & now new benchmarks have been spotted where the Zen 5 chip was overclocked to 6.0 GHz & delivers stellar multi and single-core performance.

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.

First up, we have the benchmark result in Geekbench 5 where the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X "Zen 5" CPU scored 2795 points in single-core and 30,050 points in the multi-core tests. This is a 12% uplift in single-core and 16% uplift in multi-core performance versus the Core i9-14900K (Stock). The CPU should also end up around 10% faster in single-core and 13% faster in multi-core versus a stock Ryzen 9 9950X CPU with an overclocked configuration like this.

Moving over to Geekbench 6, the chip scored 3706 points in single-core and 26,047 points in the multi-core tests. Here, the chip scores 10% better performance in single-core and 20% uplift in the multi-core tests against a stock Ryzen 9 9950X CPU. Versus the 14900KS (stock), the Ryzen 9 9950X scores a 16% lead in single-core and 19% lead in multi-core performance.

The performance was evaluated on an ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E motherboard with DDR5-6000 memory. It is unclear if the chip was running in an LN2 environment or a standard cooler config. We know that the chip was overclocked up to 6.6 GHz on LN2 and its peak frequency is rated at 5.85 GHz.

As per yesterday's announcement, the AMD Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" Desktop CPUs such as the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X will be launching on retail shelves on 15th August while the mainstream Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X will hit retail on the 8th of August.

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