AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, which will compete against the best CPUs, might not be out just yet (arriving July 31st), but that hasn't stopped a PC enthusiast from posting benchmarks of the chip in prototype form. Igor_kavinski posted a gauntlet of Cinebech R23 benchmark runs featuring an engineering sample Ryzen 9 9950X on the AnandTech forums, featuring various power targets to see how efficient AMD's Zen 5 desktop flagship is.
Igor posted ten total benchmark runs of the ES 9950X operating at 40W, 60W, 80W, 100W, 120W, 160W, 200W, 230W, 253W and 9999W. The 16-core Zen 5 flagship posted an impressive 48,011 score at full tilt. That is 24% faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X, which scored a 38,638 result (with PBO) in our review. The Ryzen 9 9950X was also up to 34% faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, which posted a 35,630 score in our review of that chip.
