The Ryzen 9 9900X, one of AMD’s first Zen 5 CPUs for desktop users, will deliver substantially faster single-core performance than the Core i9-14900KS, Intel’s current flagship processor, according to new benchmark results that show how red team’s chip can achieve single-core and multi-core scores of 3,401 and 19,756, respectively, in Geekbench 6. Complementing those numbers is a separate test performed in Cinebench R23, where the Ryzen 9900X (120W) delivers a 14% uplift in multi-threaded performance versus the Ryzen 7900X (170W) at default TDP.
Geekbench 6 numbers for Ryzen 9 990X:
- Single-core score: 3,401
- Multi-core score: 19,756
Performance comparisons (Geekbench 6):
Performance comparisons (Cinebench R23):
From a report:
…the 170W TDP disclosed above for the Ryzen 9 7900X has PBO enabled by default. Once PBO is enabled for the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core “Zen 5” Desktop CPU, its score surges to around 34,500 points which is around a 20% uplift over the Ryzen 9 7900X, and users can still expect lower power consumption than the Zen 4 chips.