The Cinebench R23 scores of the entire Ryzen 9000 family have leaked out. Before we proceed, please note that these numbers are not final and may be lower than the retail chips. First, we have the Ryzen 5 9600X with a single and multi-core score of 2244 and 17037 points, respectively. This makes it 15% and 12% faster than the Ryzen 5 7600X but over 40% slower than the Intel Core i5-14600K in the multi-core segment.
We see a similar deficit between the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Core i7-14700K. The 9700X is slightly faster than the 14700K in the single-core benchmark but falls way behind in the multi-core test. While the latter scores 33500, this particular 9700X only manages 21533 points. That’s only 8% faster than the 7700X.
The Ryzen 9 9900X also fails to beat the Core i7-14700K in the multi-core segment. It posts a multi-core score of 32216 points, a smidge lower than the 33.5K figure by the 14700K. Luckily, the Ryzen 9 9950X beats all the core i7 and i9s SKUs with an overall score of 44-46K points.
Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 200 (15th Gen) Arrow Lake-S processors should offer healthy single-core uplifts over their predecessors. However, the multi-threaded performance may not be that impressive across all workloads. Several content creation tasks still benefit from hyper-threading (SMT), and it might be a while before developers adjust to such a massive shift.
