AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Processor Comparable Performance to Intel's 14900KS

TapTechNews July 18th news, a netizen Igor_kavinski posted on the Anandtech forum yesterday (July 17th), sharing the Cinebench R23跑分 data of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor. Under the condition of 160 watts of power consumption, its performance is comparable to that of Intel's top 14900KS processor.

Introduction of AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 100-000001277 tested this time is the flagship processor of this series, equipped with two Zen5 CCDs and one IOD.

This processor is equipped with 16 cores and 32 threads, the base clock frequency is 4.3 GHz, the boost clock frequency can reach 5.7 GHz, and it is equipped with 80MB cache (64MB L3 + 16MB L2), and the TDP is 170 watts.

In terms of clock frequency, although the boost clock frequency is the same as that of the Ryzen 9 7950X, the base clock frequency is slightly reduced by 200 MHz.

Test platform

The processor tested this time is in the ES (engineering sample), and it is tested after manual adjustment (turn on PBO + CO) using the Cinebench R23 tool.

Test results:

TapTechNews attaches the following test results:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (230W) - 46,090 (100%) / 5477.0 MHz (Peak) 60.5C

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (200W) - 44,782 (97.1%) / 5227.0 MHz (Peak) 54.6C

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (160W) - 42,336 (91.8%) / 5206.4 MHz (Peak) 47.9C

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (120W) - 36,478 (79.1%) / 4190.1 MHz (Peak) 43.5C

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (100W) - 33,373 (72.4%) / 3821.8 MHz (Peak) 40.5C

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (80W) - 29,430 (63.8%) / 3340.1 MHz (Peak) 41.0C

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (60W) - 23,985 (52.0%) / 2687.8 MHz (Peak) 39.5C

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (40W) - 12,424 (26.9%) / 1401.7 MHz (Peak) 34.8C

From the test results, the performance of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Zen5 desktop CPU, the跑分 exceeds that of 7950X 3D under 120W, and the跑分 ( 42336 points) at 160W is comparable to the Intel Core i9-14900KS in the extreme state ( 42678 points).

The comparison result with the i9-14900KS is the most prominent, because the test power consumption of the 14900KS in the extreme state exceeds 300 watts, which is almost twice the 160 watts PPT power consumption, and the 9950X tested is not a retail chip yet.

In addition, the performance of the Ryzen 9 9950X under the use of liquid nitrogen and other cooling and configurations is as follows:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (LN2) - 53557 (127.7%)

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (CurveShaper) - 45303 (108.0%)

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (PBO+EXPO) - 43905 (104.7%)

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Stock) - 41924 (100%)