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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X >30% Faster than the Intel Core i9-12900K in Leaked Benchmark Despite Fewer Cores and Lower Power Draw

AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs allegedly bring about a near-60% increase in performance compared to rival Intel’s Alder Lake-S flagship. These figures come from internal testing at AMD labs using rendering software, V-Ray. The Ryzen 9 7950X manages an impressive 30,168 points, beating the Core i9-12900K (18,646 points) by a fat 57% margin. This drives home the point that not all cores are equal, and sometimes a chip with fewer (more powerful) cores will easily defeat a rival with many more cores. Just look at AMD’s Bulldozer legacy!

An SiSoft benchmark of the Ryzen 9 7900X has been shared by APISAK on Twitter, demonstrating the exception integer compute capabilities of the Zen 4 core architecture. Vermeer and the Zen 3 core powering it were already quite good at processing INT-heavy instructions. With Raphael, AMD has further increased its lead in this department. The 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X is over 30% faster than the 16-core i9-12900K in Dhrystone Long (double-length integer) while also beating it by 27-28% in the Dhrystone Int benchmark.

The floating-point compute capabilities of Zen 4 are less impressive, leaving a fair bit to be desired. In Whetstone single-float, the Ryzen 9 7900X is less than 5% faster than the Core i9-12900K, expanding the lead to just over 10% in double-float. The Zen core’s execution capabilities seem to have improved with longer instructions (perhaps a result of the AVX512 optimization?).

An SiSoft benchmark of the Ryzen 5 7600X has also surfaced (via: momomo_us). Unsurprisingly, the hex-core Ryzen 7000 CPU one-ups the 10-core i5-12600K in integer workloads as well as in double-length floating point instructions. The budget Zen 4 processor is over 40% faster than the 12600K in the Dhrystone double-float benchmark, an interesting observation considering that it falls behind in the single-float test.

Graph by: Marvin

We’re sure to see some interesting results from AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors if these figures are anything to go by.

Areej

Computer hardware enthusiast, PC gamer, and almost an engineer. Former co-founder of Techquila (2017-2019), a fairly successful tech outlet. Been working on Hardware Times since 2019, an outlet dedicated to computer hardware and its applications.

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