AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs could offer up to 19 percent higher single-thread performance than Ryzen 7000, … [+]
Regular hardware information leaker @9550pro has revealed some very interesting performance claims regarding AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs, this time claiming a significant 19 percent performance boost on single-threaded workloads.
It’s been a while since we’ve had some juicy performance leaks for AMD’s Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 desktop processors, the latest of which is coming in March with claims of up to 40 percent more performance over current Ryzen 7000 models, but the latest leak focuses on single-thread performance, which can sometimes be a good indicator of results in low-threaded tasks such as games.
The results come from the Baidu website and used the popular software CPU-Z and its built-in benchmark, with the single-thread score of 910 being around 19 percent faster than what the current Ryzen 9 7950X flagship can achieve with about 767 and a lot faster than the 705 points scored by the Ryzen 9 7950X3D.
Single-thread performance is affected by architecture and frequency, but here the peak boost frequency is a claimed 5.8GHz, which is just 100MHz faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X. There’s clearly a lot more going on with a huge 19 percent performance boost, and that comes from the Zen 5 architecture. @9550pro points to several other rumors about the changes being made to the Ryzen 9000 processors, specifically a larger, more efficient cache, lower CCD latencies (latencies between groups of cores on the CPU), and support for faster memory.
This is just one benchmark, but given the comparable frequencies of the Ryzen 9 7950X and the supposed Ryzen 9000 CPU, the performance boost appears to be a far cry from previous claims of up to a 30 percent IPC gain. We know little about the system specs, though, even though we’re apparently expecting a July launch for the new CPUs.
Another claim in @9550pro’s posts is that ‘Non-x3d easily removes zen4’s x3d’. This is a bit sensational as the Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 X3D CPUs are known to have a lower IPC and lower performance outside of games so this is a moot point especially as the not improving performance in most synthetic tests like CPU-Z – in fact, the opposite is usually true, which is why the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is easily defeated by the Ryzen 9 7950X.
The non-X3D parts are more general purpose CPUs designed to provide great all-round performance, but we already know that improvements in cache performance have given a huge boost to gaming performance with Ryzen CPUs in the past and there’s every reason to suspect that gaming performance will increase significantly here too. What isn’t clear despite @9550pro’s claims is whether Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPUs will beat Ryzen 7000 X3D models with 3D V-Cache in games.
If we look back at the last time we had a CPU launch compared to a previous generation X3D model, it was the Ryzen 7000 series compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Here, the Ryzen 7600X was on average a few percent faster than the older 3D V-Cache CPU according to these benchmarks, so the Ryzen 9000 series could still prove faster in games even than the mighty Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
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