The Ryzen 9 9950X, a new flagship 16C/32T desktop processor from AMD that promises to deliver another leap in performance with its brand-new Zen 5 cores, is up to 45% faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X, the previous generation’s non-X3D leader, according to new benchmarks that have surfaced at an online forum. AnandTech forum member igor_kavinski, who shared the numbers, clarified that this is an early engineering sample, one that was running on an AM5 motherboard with DDR5-8000 (34-45-40-42) memory.
Percentage improvements, per igor_kavinski:
| | 7950X | 13900K | 7975WX |
| AES | 45+ | 55+ | 11+ |
| FP32 | 39+ | 60+ | -13 |
| FP64 | 39+ | 60+ | -16 |
Some screenshots alluding to the chip’s performance (AES, FP32, FP64):
A comparison between the new, and older, flagships derived from the numbers above:
From a report:
While the benchmark itself showcased almost 2x performance gains in these aspects, the actual performance of the chip may not showcase similar gains since applications and workloads aren’t based entirely on such instructions and use multiple different parts of the chip. These are also the floating point figures so we can see a different story in the integer performance tests but one thing is for sure, Zen 5 does offer a significant gain through its brand new architecture…