Application Benchmarks
We are going to start with application and system benchmarks for comparisons, these are the kind of benchmarks that provide an overall performance score to compare with. These are also benchmarks that may either test the system as a whole, including many different real-world workloads or stress the CPU in ways real-world everyday workloads are performed to produce a performance result.
Geekbench 5
Geekbench 5.1.1 was used for this test. It is a multi-platform test that is comparable across different CPU architectures.
Single Core
Both 5900X test platforms perform about the same in this test. PBO vs. stock is about the same as well, even coming in slightly slower than it does at stock speeds.
Multi-Core
It’s more of the same thing here. There isn’t much difference between PBO and stock speeds.
AIDA64 CPU Queen
Again, the same type of result we saw in the last few tests.
SiSoft Sandra
We used SiSoftware Sandra version 2020.5.30.41 for all Sandra testing. The processor arithmetic Dhrystone and Whetstone performance results are represented in GFLOPS.
Dhrystone
In this test, we see a huge increase in performance from PBO versus default values. Both our 5900X test platforms performed about the same at stock settings.
Whetstone
In our second Sandra CPU test, again, PBO provides a huge advantage over default settings with stock values being virtually identical across both boards.
wPrime
Unlike the last few tests, PBO doesn’t offer much over stock operation and all three configurations using the 5900X achieve virtually the same results.