AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Early Gaming Tests Leaked By YouTuber, Slightly Behind Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Lower Power & Temperatures

The first gaming performance tests of AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X "Zen 5" Desktop CPU seem to have been leaked by an Italian YouTuber.

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X "Zen 5" vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D "Zen 4" Gaming Benchmarks Leak, Last-Gen 3D V-Cache Ahead of Next-Gen Chip

The benchmarks come from SaddyTech, an Italian YouTuber, who managed to acquire a retail AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU ahead of launch. The YouTuber tested the chip on an Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX motherboard with the latest BIOS, a pair of DDR5-7200 memory (2400 fabric clock) and compared it in various games against the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

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The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X "100-000000662" CPU is a 12-core and 24-thread variant. This chip has a base clock of 4.4 GHz and a boost clock of up to 5.6 GHz with a 76 MB cache. The interesting thing with this chip is that it has a TDP of 120W much lower than the 170W of Ryzen 9 7900X chips.

Once again, while the chip retains the same boost clock speed as the Ryzen 9 7900X, the base clock sees a -300 MHz reduction which is once again to fit within the 120W power limit but once again, the 12-core should be able to boast some nice multi-threaded capabilities.

Coming to the performance figures, both the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core "Zen 5" and AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D "Zen 4" CPUs were tested in various titles at 2160p, 1440p and 1080p resolutions. The first game on the list is Alan Wake 2 where the new Zen 5 chip was slightly faster in avg FPS but the Zen 4 3D V-Cache chip managed to surpass it in both average and lows. In Cities Skylines 2, the Zen 4 3D V-Cache chip managed a 23% lead in average FPS while the 1% and 0.1% lows were similar.

In Call of Duty Warzone 2, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D once again managed to outperform the Ryzen 9 9900X in average and lows and matched it in average FPS figures. Counter-Strike 2, a game that loves CPU performance was once again led by the Ryzen 7 7800X3D which