Intel better watch out, because AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X just broke a world record for benchmark performance
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X processor has already shown impressive performance in early development compared to Intel’s Core i9-14900KSthanks to leaked Cinebench R23 benchmark results that already showed an incredible 48,011 for multi-threaded performance.
But that’s just the beginning, because Bilibili tech influencer Regular Uncle Tony showed just how far the processor can be pushed when overclocked to a staggering 6.5GHz. The previous Cinebench R23 benchmark multi-threaded score was 50,843, achieved by a Ryzen 9 7950X, but the Ryzen 9 9950X completely crushes that with a score of 55,327 points.
During the live event (called China Joy) that was broadcasted in China, Tony first warmed up the processor with a 5.0GHz processor clock, which yielded a score of 42,689 points. A 6.0GHz processor clock yielded 51,204 points, already breaking the previous world record, and then he overclocked it all the way to 6.5GHz for today’s result. And the most impressive part is that this is just the beginning, as others will likely surpass even this incredible feat.
Intel is in trouble, but is AMD too?
Even in its technical samples, Team Red’s Ryzen 9 9950X processor easily defeated Team Blue’s Core i9-14900KS in Cinebench R23 performance results. An example of this is the 9950X, which achieved a Cinebench R23 multi-threaded score of 48,011, which is 12.5% faster than a Core i9-14900KS in the same test, which achieved 42,678. When tested on the lowest 160W power test run, it scored 42,336. At 200W, it bested Intel’s flagship with a score of 44,782.
AMD’s upcoming processor promises to be an absolute beast, and normally we’d look forward to reviews premiere around July 31stwhen it was originally scheduled for release. However, in true tech industry style, there have been many delays caused by completely avoidable and ridiculous reasons.
It was first revealed that the Ryzen 9 9950X was to be postponed until the end of August due to an unspecified quality issue with the processors that was discovered late in Team Red’s packaging testing process. This includes units that had already shipped to retailers and subsequently had to be recalled.
Worse yet, this massive slowdown of the Ryzen 9000 processors could be caused by a simple typo. Instead of a Ryzen 7 9700X processor, AMD appears to have mislabeled it on the chip itself as the Ryzen 9 9700X. Ryzen 5 9600X chips are also being mislabeled as “Ryzen 9” models, making matters worse since the Ryzen 9 label has only been saved for Zen 5 chips.
Although judging by these performance results, it doesn’t seem like Team Blue will be competing with Team Red anytime soon. Team Red is clearly its own worst enemy. Hopefully, it can recover from this blunder quickly, although it will still be a setback for the tech giant.
