Leaked AMD Ryzen 9950X benchmarks appear to show Intel what a flagship CPU is made of, easily outperforming the Core i9-14900KS
Another leak has surfaced for AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X, with the new Zen 5 flagship set to easily outperform Intel’s Core i9-14900KS, the fastest chip in Team Blue’s current CPU lineup.
Wccftech noted that Igor Kavinski has posted more leaked benchmarks (on the Anandtech Forums) using a technical sample (pre-release chip) of the Ryzen 9950X.
When using unlimited power (or ‘Emperor Palpatine’ mode as we like to call it), the 9950X achieved a blistering Cinebench R23 score of 48,011 for multi-threaded performance.
That’s 12.5% faster than a Core i9-14900KS in the same test as Wccftech reports (the Intel chip hits 42,678).
Even when the 9950X was powered at just 160W in Kavinski’s lowest-power test, it nearly matched the 14900KS with a score of 42,336. At 200W, the Ryzen next-gen flagship handily defeated the 14900KS, achieving a score of 44,782.
Analysis: Very promising leaks
Keep in mind that this is just an engineering sample, not the finished silicon, which will likely be even better in the end. The sample chip has lower clock speeds (as expected), but that said, there are caveats to all of this, as the leaker has manually tweaked the CPU to perform better via PBO and Curve Optimizer, and there was an excellent custom water cooling system in place that the processor also benefited from.
Still, this is clearly an impressive pre-release showing, and Kavinski has sent out a few more comparisons since those Cinebench runs. Those include a performance-per-watt battle between the 9950X versus a tuned-up 7950X (results for the latter come courtesy of Det0x), and show the new CPU blowing away the current flagship at higher power levels. (The low-power results do seem to favor the 7950X, but that’s likely down to some strange optimization for the 9950X – we’ll only know for sure when a release version of the Zen 5 processor is properly put through its paces.)
Overall, enthusiasts looking for a powerful and seemingly highly efficient flagship CPU will be pretty excited about these leaked results – and we still have less than a few weeks before the Ryzen 9000 family releases. The Ryzen 9 9950X, along with the 9900X (which impressed again in another recent leak), plus the 9700X and 9600X are scheduled to launch on July 31, as recently confirmed by AMD. All we need to know now is the price tags…
