Starting on July 7, AnandTech forum member Igor_Kavinski began posting Ryzen 9 9950X engineering sample Blender benchmark results courtesy of an unnamed source — starting at a super-slim 60W TDP. Over the course of the following week, 90W TDP, 120W TDP, 160W TDP, and finally, max-capacity 230W TDP results were also posted. The results give us a comprehensive idea of how power efficiency will improve with next-gen Zen 5 AMD CPUs.
Before proceeding, it's evident that the newer Ryzen 9 9950X would outperform the older chip when given a more generous power budget. We didn't test our Ryzen 9 7950X at 230W TDP, but reports from other users in the thread point toward a ~20% performance improvement still present in that scenario. The interesting results here start at 170W and below.
