Thursday, October 1st 2020
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X CPU-Z Bench Score Leaks, 27% Higher 1T Performance Over 3700X
With AMD expected to announce its 5th Generation Ryzen "Vermeer" desktop processors next week, the rumor-mill is grinding the finest spices. This time, an alleged CPU-Z Bench score of a 12-core/24-thread Ryzen 9 5900X processor surfaced. CPU-Z by CPUID has a lightweight internal benchmark that evaluates the single-threaded and multi-threaded performance of the processor, and provides reference scores from a selection of processors for comparison. The alleged 5900X sample is shown belting out a multi-threaded (nT) score of 9481.8 points, and single-threaded (1T) score of 652.8 points.
When compared to the internal reference score by CPUID for the Ryzen 7 3700X 8-core/16-thread processor, which is shown with 511 points 1T and 5433 points nT, the alleged 5900X ends up with a staggering 27% higher 1T score, and a 74% higher nT score. While the nT score is largely attributable to the 50% higher core-count, the 1T score is interesting. We predict that besides possibly higher clock-speeds for the 5900X, the "Zen 3" microarchitecture does offer a certain amount of IPC gain over "Zen 2" to account for the 27%. AMD's IPC parity with Intel is likely to tilt in its favor with "Zen 3," until Intel can whip something up with its "Cypress Cove" CPU cores on the 14 nm "Rocket Lake-S" processor.
Sources:
9550pro (Twitter), VideoCardz
When compared to the internal reference score by CPUID for the Ryzen 7 3700X 8-core/16-thread processor, which is shown with 511 points 1T and 5433 points nT, the alleged 5900X ends up with a staggering 27% higher 1T score, and a 74% higher nT score. While the nT score is largely attributable to the 50% higher core-count, the 1T score is interesting. We predict that besides possibly higher clock-speeds for the 5900X, the "Zen 3" microarchitecture does offer a certain amount of IPC gain over "Zen 2" to account for the 27%. AMD's IPC parity with Intel is likely to tilt in its favor with "Zen 3," until Intel can whip something up with its "Cypress Cove" CPU cores on the 14 nm "Rocket Lake-S" processor.
120 Comments on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X CPU-Z Bench Score Leaks, 27% Higher 1T Performance Over 3700X
It might also be possible that they have figured out how to pump more juice to a single core, but have kept the TDP the same, meaning that the single core performance would be higher but MT would be proportionally more power limited.
This 8700K still isn't my favorite CPU. Still does odd things now and then, spiky voltage/temp behaviour at times, its hard to put the finger on it, but meh - and the OC potential just isn't there unless I go exotic on cooling measures, which I'm not doing.
As far as OC goes... I've let go of that idea, its not worth it anymore. They can do that for me now, apparently :rolleyes:
So I'll take that with a pinch of salt
Given that 95% of RAM kits available to consumers rely on XMP, it kind of sucks that the XMP settings still don't work for a non-trivial number of combinations. Sure, most TPU readers know to plug in the timings from the 1usmus DRAM calculator to get their AMD systems running at or close to the advertised speeds, but I'm willing to bet that most users aren't going to be interested in a 3-step process that involves manually inputting dozens of secondary and tertiary RAM timings buried in a completely different place under advanced BIOS settings for each motherboard.
Only this week I encountered a mainstream Gigabyte B550 board that failed to run XMP settings on two different RAM kits, and earlier during lockdown, Asus and Asrock B450 boards choked on a popular Kingston 3200 kit but were happy with (supposedly terrible for AMD) Corsair LPX and budget Patriot 3600 kits respectively.
AMD really needs XMP to "just work" and their AGESA firmware should really really loosen timings by 25% or so on the memory training before giving up and running 3600MHz DDR4 at almost half it's rated speed.
its useless comapare 7nm cpu for 14nm cpu...and specially tell it 'fast'.
few month and we see intel 10nm side and 6 month we see equal battle
Hopefully, these leaks are true as it will be nice to see them compete in high refresh rate gaming.