These leaks originate from an unknown supply as they normally do, however they arrive to us by the use of tech YouTuber RedGamingTech who is known (or maybe notorious) for posting {hardware} leaks, particularly about upcoming AMD elements. In his most up-to-date video, RedGamingTech just about cuts straight to the purpose and presents what he proposes to be leaked Geekbench and Cinebench numbers from “late ES” Zen 5 processors. ES on this case refers in fact to “Engineering Sample”, pre-release processors which are used for testing and verification.
Comparing the numbers that RedGamingTech (RGT) provides for the Ryzen 9 8950X, we see between a 12% and 21% improve in single-threaded Geekbench 6, whereas the multi-threaded benchmark achieve is bigger, between 18% and 40%. The variance right here comes all the way down to the vary of accessible benchmark ends in the Geekbench database; if we use the numbers on the official Geekbench CPU charts, it is 16% single-thread and 25% multi-thread.
Meanwhile, in Cinebench 2024, the Ryzen 9 8950X apparently scores “about 2400 factors” within the multi-core metric, whereas its single-core rating is “about 140 factors.” Those numbers won’t sound excessive in the event you’re accustomed to older Cinebench variations, however understand that 2024 utterly revised the dimensions. In truth, 140 factors on the single-threaded rating is round a 12% achieve over the Ryzen 9 7950X, whereas the multi-core rating is true about 10% sooner.
Either means, these positive factors aren’t dangerous gen-on-gen, particularly contemplating that RGT remarks that this CPU continues with 16 cores on the top-end SKU for Socket AM5. He notes that the cIOD, the I/O chiplet for Ryzen processors that holds the reminiscence controller amongst different parts, is predicted to be principally unchanged from Zen 4. That signifies that reminiscence efficiency will in all probability be slightly comparable, and so 16-core Zen 5 processors may begin to run into bandwidth limitations.
RedGamingTech additionally gave some numbers for Geekbench and Cinebench 2024 on a Ryzen 9 8950HS engineering pattern. This is purportedly a 35-watt Zen 5 cellular processor from the Strix Point household. The benchmark values that he presents up are extraordinarily spectacular; compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS, we’re Geekbench rating jumps of 37% on a single thread and a whopping 77% throughout a number of threads. The Cinebench single-thread quantity is barely worse at round 24%, however the multi-threaded rating is greater than double what a 7940HS can do.
Some of the multi-core achieve can in all probability be defined by Strix Point supposedly sporting twelve cores in a hybrid Zen-4-plus-Zen-4c configuration. Even nonetheless, that is a large soar in single-threaded efficiency as properly, particularly contemplating that 35W TDP score for the leaked information. That may level to drastically-improved energy effectivity for Zen 5. Some enchancment is predicted due to the soar to TSMC’s N3, however this suggests fairly a shift.
Indeed, Apple appears to be immediately within the sights of AMD with this processor, because it’s slightly corresponding to the just-announced M3 Pro—identical reminiscence bus width, 4 extra CPU cores, and two extra GPU “cores” if we depend by RDNA WGPs as a substitute of the older Compute Unit metric. RGT claims that the Ryzen 9 8955HX performs equally to the Ryzen 9 8950X in Geekbench and Cinebench, though we might truly count on increased efficiency as a result of wider reminiscence bus. He additionally says that gaming efficiency is much like a Radeon RX 6750 XT regardless of the chip’s 125W TDP.
After delivering the benchmarks, RGT talked a bit about what he is heard regarding the Ryzen 8000 sequence CPUs in addition to the Zen 5 processor cores. The earlier 10-15% IPC expectation got here from a CPU core design inner roadmap leaked by fellow YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead. Those numbers, in response to RGT, have been based mostly on SPECint benchmarks, particularly, and Zen 5 is definitely significantly sooner in workloads that blend integer and floating-point math. That may very well be as a result of elevated dispatch width (from 6 to eight directions) on Zen 5.
Additionally, he says that the processor design philosophy at AMD has shifted considerably towards its high-margin EPYC CPU enterprise. As a outcome, the processors are being designed with a lesser emphasis on single-threaded CPU clock and a better emphasis on multi-threaded clocks, that means that the hole between the 2 has shrunk. Good for creators and scientists; not nice for players, though hardcore PC players ought to in all probability be contemplating an X3D processor anyway, and people already run decrease clocks.
We in all probability needn’t remind an viewers of HotHardware readers that these “leaks” are unverified and little greater than rumors till we get major or secondary affirmation, the latter of which might be a second supply, and the previous of which might be straight from AMD. What do you consider RGT’s numbers? Let us know within the feedback.
