Ryzen 9 9900X Sets New Performance Benchmark, Outshines Competition

At COMPUTEX 2024, AMD unveiled its next-generation Ryzen 9000 series processors, codenamed “Granite Ridge,” based on the Zen 5 architecture. Rumor has it that the Ryzen 9000 series will be released at 9 a.m. Eastern Time on July 31. As the date approaches, numerous reports regarding the performance of these new products have emerged online.

Recently, according to wccftech, the Ryzen 9 9900X, part of the AMD Ryzen 9000 series, achieved a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of approximately 33,000 points at its default 120W TDP, significantly outperforming the previous generation Ryzen 9 7900X and surpassing the Intel Core i7-13700K by nearly 2,000 points. When PBO is enabled, the Ryzen 9 9900X’s power consumption increases to around 170W, which is equivalent to the default TDP of the Ryzen 9 7900X, resulting in a further multi-core score boost to 34,500 points, closely matching the multi-core performance of the Intel Core i7-14700K (253W MTP). The tests were conducted using a high-end X670E motherboard and AGESA 1.2.0.0 BIOS, and it is believed that with continued optimization, the AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors will exhibit even better performance.

Coincidentally, the Ryzen 9 9900X also recently appeared on Geekbench. Powered by an ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E GENE motherboard, it reached a maximum frequency of 5664MHz. With its 12-core, 24-thread high-end configuration, it achieved impressive scores of 3401 in single-core and 19756 in multi-core, surpassing the single-core performance of the Intel Core i9-14900K by approximately 9% and trailing its multi-core performance by only about 5%, resulting in an overall generational improvement of about 15%. It has now ranked among the top in consumer CPU performance charts.

The Ryzen 9 9900X features a dual-CCD design, with CPU cores built on TSMC’s 4nm FinFET process, boasting 12 cores and 24 threads, a base frequency of 4.4GHz, and a maximum frequency of 5.6GHz. It has L1, L2, and L3 cache capacities of 768KB, 12MB, and 64MB respectively, a TDP of 120W, and supports overclocking and PBO2 technology to unlock even greater performance. It is compatible with existing AMD 600 series motherboards through a BIOS upgrade.