New AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core CPU Benchmarks Leak While ASUS Posts 55000 Points With Ryzen 9 9950X LN2 Overclock

AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X, the most entry-level Zen 5 Desktop CPU with 6 cores, has been tested in Cinebench while the Ryzen 9 9950X posts a new LN2 record.

New benchmarks of AMD's highest-end and lowest-end "Zen 5" Desktop CPUs have appeared online. The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU benchmarks come from a leak posted by HXL while ASUS has showcased the overclocking performance of its ROG Crosshair X670E GENE motherboard at China Joy 2024.

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.

The 6-Core "Zen 5" CPU appears to have been tested within the CInebench R23 benchmark. There are two scores with one possibly running at the default configuration and the other using a PBO profile. At stock, the CPU scores 16205 points in the multi-core & 2160 points in the single-core tests. This marks a 5% increase in multi-threaded performance and a 10% uplift in single-core performance. With PBO, the chip scores 17,037 points in multi-core and 2244 points in the single-core tests. These mark a 10% improvement in multi-core & a 14% uplift in single-core scores.

In addition to Cinebench R23, the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X "Zen 5" CPU was also tested in CPU-z but here, it was only benchmarked under the "Default" profile which might explain the lower scores and we have seen that the Zen 5 chips don't necessarily see a major IPC improvement in this test.

Moving forward, we have ASUS's new benchmark where they have pushed the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Flagship "Zen 5" Desktop CPU to new heights. The chip was overclocked by ASUS's Tony on the ROG Crosshair X670E GENE motherboard using LN2 and scored 55,000 points in the R23 multi-threaded tests.

9950X LN2 OCs (Cinebench R23 MT)

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— Hassan Mujtaba (@hms1193) July 26, 2024

This is by far the fastest Cinebench R23 score for the Ryzen 9 9950X that we've seen so far, even better than the ones conducted during AMD's Tech Day. So we can expect even better scores once hardcore overclockers get their hands on these chips and it is not far away from out-performing Intel's world record set in the same benchmark using the Core i9-14900KS.

AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X will be launching alongside the Ryzen 7 9700X on the 8th of August while the Ryzen 9 9950X will be launching alongside the Ryzen 9 9900X on the 15th of August so stay tuned for more Zen 5 action in the coming days.

News Sources: HXL (@9550pro), Bilibili