AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X is going to be an absolute treat for overclockers and enthusiasts. The Granite Ridge flagship was overclocked at the chipmaker’s recent “Tech Day,” obtaining a 39% lead over the Intel Core i9-14900K in Cinebench R23 nT. The 16-core processor scores a healthy ~42K (41924) points in the Cinebench R23 multi-threaded benchmark. Enabling Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) and EXPO (XMP) increases it to 44K (43905) points at the cost of higher power consumption and heat dissipation.
Using the new curve shaper to fine-tune the boost curve results in a multi-core score of 45303 points, a 17-18% lead over the Intel Core i9-14900K. This score was obtained with a base clock of 4.3 GHz (up from 4.3 GHz at stock PBO).
Using LN2 cooling (liquid nitrogen) and overclocking the cores to 6.2 GHz results in an incredible 53.6K (53557) points, a 39% advantage over the Intel Core i9-14900K. Granted, very few users will be able to extract this kind of performance out of the chip, but it’s nice knowing that it reacts well to overclocking.
Apart from Cinebench, 7-zip and Prime were also tested. The former sscored 214113 points, a 12% lead over the Core i9-14900K.
In wPrime, the Ryzen 9 9950X completes its run in 1.72 secs and 1.39 secs at stock and under LN2, respectively. In comparison, the Core i9-14900K takes 2.1 to 2.2 seconds in the same benchmark. We can’t wait to test these chips in our test setups and will post the results as soon as we’re able.
Images source: Quasarzone.
