AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU Tested With Unlimited PPT Mode: 320W Power, Over 5.5 GHz Clocks Across All Cores, 40% Faster Vs 14900K

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X CPU has been tested with a 5.5 GHz all core overclock and again, using an unlimited power profile pushing 320W power.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Overclocked To 5.5 GHz Across All 16-Cores At 253W, Also Tested With Unlimited PPT Settings With 320W Power Consumption

The final bombs of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU tests has been dropped by Anandtech forum member, Igor_kavinski who has been showing us how the 16-core flagship scales at various TDP limits within the Blender benchmark. So far, he has shown 60W,90W,120W,160W, 230W PPT results, and now, we have two new entries, one with a 5.5 GHz overclock at 253W and one with unlimited PPT.

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The chip being used by Igor's source is an engineering sample which should have slightly lower clocks than the retail chip. At 60W, the chip was able to come close to the Intel Core i9-12900K while boosting up to 4084 MHz, and at 90W, it was able to outperform the Ryzen 9 5950X while boosting up to 5053 MHz. At 120W, the chip beats all of the top current-gen processors from Intel and AMD while boosting up to 5555 MHz and the same is the case with the 230W result which takes things up a notch with the frequency now hitting above 5.6 GHz.

With the unlimited PPT mode, the maximum frequency didn't see any change but the clock speeds across all cores were higher, going beyond 5.5 GHz which in the case of the 230W PPT were around 5.4 GHz. There is also the 5.5 GHz static overclock which was achieved at a PPT of 253W to match Intel's maximum power limit for its Core i9 CPUs. Do keep in mind that the other chips tested here are running at their peak power ratings. It's only the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X ES CPU that has been tuned. To summarize it all:

• Ryzen 9 9950X (Unlimited PPT) - 5621 MHz Peak Clock / 80C Temps
• Ryzen 9 9950X (253W PPT / 5.5 GHz OC) - 5500 MHz Peak Clock / 61C Temps
• Ryzen 9 9950X