AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Flagship CPU Tested At Stock, Overclock & LN2, Scores Over 53K Points In Cinebench R23

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Flagship CPU has been tested at stock & overclocked configurations, revealing some impressive performance.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Desktop CPU Achieves New Cinebench R23 World Record Under LN2 Cooling, Almost As Fast As 14900KS At Stock

During its Tech Day, AMD shared a range of performance benchmarks of its flagship Ryzen 9000 Desktop CPU, the Ryzen 9 9950X, which features 16 Zen 5 cores. The new chip was tested across various benchmarks at stock and overclocked configurations and it looks like the chip has bagged several world records ahead of its release.

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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.

In the benchmarks covered by QuasarZone, we can see that the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Zen 5 Desktop CPU scores 41,924 points at stock. This is almost on par with Intel's current flagship, the i9-14900KS. But as soon as the chip is tuned, it outperforms the 14900KS with an impressive lead. The CPU was overclocked up to 6.6 GHz across all 16 cores but for Cinebench R23, the maximum clock speeds were set to 6.3 GHz across all cores.

Cinebench R23 (Higher is Better)

Multi-Thread 0100002000030000400005000060000 0100002000030000400005000060000 Core i9-14900KS (LN2 WR) 56284 Ryzen 9 9950X (LN2) 53557 Ryzen 9 7950X (LN2 WR) 50843 Ryzen 9 9950X (Curve Shaper) 45303 Ryzen 9 9950X (PBO+EXPO) 43905 Intel Core