Ah, Geekbench. Whereas the benchmark app is often controversial—notably the place comparisons towards Apple {hardware} are concerned—it makes for a fairly strong benchmark with constant and related outcomes, throughout the similar platform. AMD simply introduced its new line-up of Ryzen 7000 sequence CPUs and the Ryzen 9 7950X final evening, and now we have a leaked Geekbench consequence for the 16-core processor.
Simply after the consequence was posted to the Geekbench database, Sebastian Castellanos (@Sebasti66855537 on Twitter) managed to match it towards one other consequence from a leaked processor: Intel’s Core i9-13900K. Each outcomes had been captured utilizing high-end ASUS ROG motherboards, which is perhaps a attainable indicator the place the leak originated.
These outcomes are extraordinarily shut. The Ryzen 9 7950X outpaces the Core i9-13900K chip in single-threaded and multi-threaded, however solely by 2.2% on a single thread and simply 0.9% throughout all threads, which may merely be margin-of-error. That is extraordinarily thrilling stuff to see, but it surely’s in all probability not fairly correct, as we suspect that this Raptor Lake processor could also be an engineering pattern of some type.
What we are able to see of the benchmark consequence does not embody increase clock charges, however the single-core rating is barely higher than the rating we noticed final week for a non-Okay Core i9-13900 chip. There are lots of potentialities right here: this might be the true efficiency of a 13900K with energy limits enabled, it might be thermally-limited, or it might be a benchmark utilizing a bit of pre-final silicon. It is value nothing that the outcomes listed here are barely larger than we noticed again in July.
It is sadly inconceivable to know, however the prospect of AMD and Intel’s flagships being neck-and-neck like that is thrilling. We’ll know for positive—after which you’ll, too—once we affirm with our personal testing, as quickly as we’ve got Raptor Lake and AMD’s Ryzen 7000 Sequence in hand.
