AMD Ryzen 9 9950X “Zen 5” Flagship CPU Benchmarked With 6 GHz Overclock, Up To 20% Faster Than Stock Chip

AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X "Zen 5" CPU featuring 16 cores has been benchmarked with a 6.0 GHz overclocking & showcases impressive performance.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Flagship "Zen 5" CPU Overclocked To 6 GHz, Benchmarks Show 19% Lead Over Core i9-14900KS (Stock)

The performance of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Desktop CPU is no mystery now. We have seen how the chip performs at both stock and overclocked configurations in various tests & now new benchmarks have been spotted where the Zen 5 chip was overclocked to 6.0 GHz & delivers stellar multi and single-core performance.

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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.

First up, we have the benchmark result in Geekbench 5 where the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X "Zen 5" CPU scored 2795 points in single-core and 30,050 points in the multi-core tests. This is a 12% uplift in single-core and 16% uplift in multi-core performance versus the Core i9-14900K (Stock). The CPU should also end up around 10% faster in single-core and 13% faster in multi-core versus a stock Ryzen 9 9950X CPU with an overclocked configuration like this.

Geekbench 5 (Higher is Better)

Single-ThreadMulti-Thread 070001400021000280003500042000 070001400021000280003500042000 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (6 GHz OC) 279530050 Intel Core Ultra 9 285K (QS 250W) 245527381 Intel Core i9-14900K 241026901 Intel Core i9-13900K 228025854 AMD Ryzen 9