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
In our Geekbench single-core test, we see very little difference in the results of our overclocked 11900K and its stock configuration. However, the stock configuration is faster here which isn’t surprising given the higher clock speeds the CPU is capable of on one or two cores vs. a 5.1GHz all-core overclock.
Multi-Core
In the multi-core test, we see the overclocked configuration pull slightly ahead of the stock one as we are forcing higher clocks on all the cores. Again, the difference between the two configurations is very small but it does exist and is repeatable.
AIDA64 CPU Queen
In our AIDA64 test, we see very close results between our all-core overclock and our standard boost clock operation. These came in at 109,458 and 104,792 respectively.
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 our Sandra Dhrystone test, the BIOSTAR Z590I VALKYRIE largely brings up the rear here. However, this is due to the difference in CPU as Intel’s choice to drop 2 physical cores and 4 threads from its flagship have left the 11900K somewhat anemic here.
Whetstone
In the Sandra Whetstone test, we see results of 258.89GFLOPS when overclocked and 246.39GFLOPS at stock speeds. However, the lower scores are once again most likely due to Intel pitting an 8c/16t CPU against a 10c/20c or worse, AMD’s 12c/24t CPU’s.
wPrime
In this test, we see the 590i Valkyrie achieve completion of the tests in 72.26 seconds at stock speeds and 76.76 seconds overclocked.