AMD Ryzen 9 7950X prototype beats 5950X in Cinebench R23

Summary: Last week, AMD announced the release of the 7000 series and scheduled its launch on September 27th. In case you missed our quick recap of the event, the bottom line is that these processors consume all the power to reach astronomical clock speeds, but otherwise they are quite similar to their predecessors.

The Ryzen 9 7950X is AMD’s flagship and will cost $100 less than the $700 5950X. It has 16 cores / 32 threads, 5.7GHz clock speed and 4.5GHz base frequency. These speeds, increased cache capacity, and other IPC improvements result in what AMD says is a 29% improvement in single-core performance over the 5950X.

So it’s no surprise that it outperforms the 5950X in the first leaked benchmarks. Like the 7700X and 7600X, the 7950X passed the Cinebench R23 rendering test.

Enthusiasts in China have purchased several engineering and industrial designs and have started posting test results last week. Some of their posts have already been deleted, but higher ratings appear daily. They all claim that their results were obtained without overclocking, which is quite plausible, given that the flagship Ryzen processors already have a notoriously low overclocking headroom.

However, take these numbers with a grain of salt. The highest multi-core score achieved so far is 38,984 points. It comes from Screenshot an engineering sample that performs a benchmark provided by chiphell forums.

In another example, the Twitter user “Raichu”. scored 37,452 points with production sample. Raichu also shared more information: Their processor had an all-core clock of 5.1GHz and consumed 240W during the test, resulting in temperatures reaching 96°C despite the 360mm AIO water cooler.

Screenshots of another production sample running the benchmark are posted on Baidu. show the processor scored 36,256 with an unspecified water cooling solution. Same processor only reached 29,649 points when it only had an air cooler (apparently not a very good one).

For some context, the 5950X can be pushed up to ~30,000 points with minimal effort, and typically reaches around 25,000-30,000 points on most systems. It may be higher, but this also leads to temperature problems. Being a little generous and using 30,000 as a baseline, the 7950X is 20-30% faster than the leaked results, which is roughly the same as the 29% figure AMD promised.

For those who want to take it with a very large serving of salt, you can also compare the 7950X results with leaked Intel Core i9-13900K results for last month. Intel’s upcoming flagship scored 40,616 points at over 340W and 35,693 at 240W.

Compared to the 5950X and 13900K, the 7950X proves to be a worthy heir to the Ryzen crown in Cinebench R23 if those numbers are correct. Stay tuned for our upcoming 7950X and 7900X, 7700X and 7600X reviews as we bring you the in-depth analysis.