The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Desktop CPU has been benchmarked on Geekbench, scoring some impressive gains against Intel’s 14th Gen CPUs.
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core CPU Offers 16% Single-Core Performance Boost Over 7900X, Beats Core i9-14900KS in Geekbench Benchmark
The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X “100-000000662” CPU is a 12-core, 24-thread variant. This chip has a base clock of 4.4GHz and a boost clock of up to 5.6GHz with a 76MB cache. The interesting thing about this chip is that it has a TDP of 120W much lower than the 170W of the Ryzen 9 7900X chips.
Once again, while the chip retains the same boost clock speed as the Ryzen 9 7900X, the base clock sees a reduction of -300MHz, which will again fit within the 120W power limit, but once again, the 12-core should be able to boast some nice multi-threading capabilities. Below are the TDP comparisons between the four chips of this generation versus the previous one:
- Ryzen 9 7950X (170 W) -> Ryzen 9 9950X (170 W)
- Ryzen 9 7900X (170W) -> Ryzen 9 9900X (120 W)
- Ryzen 7 7700X (105W) -> Ryzen 7 9700X (65W)
- Ryzen 5 7600X (105W) -> Ryzen 5 9600X (65W)
Coming to the performance benchmark, the chip was tested within the Geekbench 6 benchmark on an ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Gene motherboard with 32GB of DDR5 memory. The chip operated at a maximum frequency of over 5.6 GHz (5664 MHz). In terms of performance, the Ryzen 9 9900X scored 3,401 points in the single-core test and 19,756 points in the multi-core test.
This puts the single-core performance of the 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU ahead of the current fastest chip, the Intel Core i9-14900KS which scores around 3250 points in the single-core test and even the multi-core test is quite . phenomenal for this 12-core part which is almost on par with the Core i9-14900K which scores around 20,500 points on average. Compared to the 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X, the Ryzen 9 9900X delivers a 16% boost in the single-core test and 11% in the multi-core test.
We should also remember that the Intel Core i9 CPUs here were tested at settings before “Intel Baseline Default”, which further reduce the performance of the chips to ensure better stability. These new profiles can lead to performance degradation of up to 15% compared to standard settings.
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These are some impressive performance numbers, which if they turn out to be true, really show the strong single-core performance advantage that Zen 5 CPUs have to offer. Of course, Geekbench is only a synthetic benchmark, so we can’t really base its overall performance on a single test, but as we mentioned earlier, we expect the final numbers to be great for the CPU- of Desktop AMD Ryzen 9000. According to AMD itself, Geekbench is one of the best scenarios for Zen 5’s IPC boost, seeing up to 19% increase over Zen 5 as shown in the slide below:
We also covered the Cinebench R23 performance numbers a few days ago, which showed impressive efficiency of the same chip, although this was an engineering sample, while this new result appears to be of a proper retail chip.
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Once again, AMD Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5” Desktop CPUs, including the Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core, will hit retail shelves later this month on the AM5 platform, so stay tuned for some action .
AMD Ryzen 9000 “Granite Ridge” Desktop Processor Features:
| CPU name | architecture | Cores / Threads | Basic / booster clock | Cache | Graphics (integrated) | Memory support | TDP | Price (MSRP) |
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| Ryzen 9 9950X3D? | Zen 5 | 16/32 | TBD | 128 MB L3 + 16 MB L2 | 2 x 2 CU rDNA | DDR5-5600 | TBD | TBD |
| Ryzen 9 9950X | Zen 5 | 16/32 | 4.3 / 5.7 GHz | 64 MB L3 + 16 MB L2 | 2 x 2 CU rDNA | DDR5-5600 | 170 W | $649 USD? |
| Ryzen 9 9900X3D? | Zen 5 | 24/12 | TBD | 128 MB L3 + 12 MB L2 | 2 x 2 CU rDNA | DDR5-5600 | TBD | TBD |
| Ryzen 9 9900X | Zen 5 | 24/12 | 4.4 / 5.6 GHz | 64 MB L3 + 12 MB L2 | 2 x 2 CU rDNA | DDR5-5600 | 120 W | $549 USD? |
| Ryzen 7 9800X3D? | Zen 5 | 8/16 | TBD | 96 MB L3 + 8 MB L2 | 2 x 2 CU rDNA | DDR5-5600 | TBD | TBD |
| Ryzen 7 9700X | Zen 5 | 8/16 | 3.8 / 5.5 GHz | 32 MB L3 + 8 MB L2 | 2 x 2 CU rDNA | DDR5-5600 | 65W/120W? | $399 USD? |
| Ryzen 5 9600X | Zen 5 | 6/12 | 3.9 / 5.4 GHz | 32 MB L3 + 6 MB L2 | 2 x 2 CU rDNA | DDR5-5600 | 65 W | $299 USD? |
News source: Benchleaks