Watercooled Ryzen 9 9950X ranks as the 5th fastest CPU in the world on Time Spy Extreme CPU benchmark — Zen 5 flagship only lagged behind core-heavy Xeon and Threadripper chips

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If this is how fast the Ryzen 9 9950X is out of the box, we can only imagine how fast this chip will be under liquid nitrogen.

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AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X Zen 5 flagship, which will compete against the best CPUs, is already breaking some world records with conventional liquid cooling. First discovered by HXL on X, a Ryzen 9 9950X owner has already submitted several benchmark runs to HWBot, featuring some potent results, including a top-five placement in the Time Spy Extreme CPU benchmark.

The user submitted five benchmark runs to HWBot, one in 3D Mark Time Spy Extreme, two in the 3DMark CPU Profile (multi and single core), another in Cinebench 2003, and another in the HWBot x265 benchmark at 1080p.

In 3DMark Time Spy Extreme, the Ryzen 9 9950X scored a very impressive 29,102 mark, which puts it in the top five best CPU benchmark runs ever recorded on HWBot for this specific benchmark. The Ryzen 9 9950X slots into the place, flanked by substantially higher core count chips such as the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX, Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, and Intel Xeon W9-3495X. The Ryzen 9 9950X also secured first place among 16-core parts specifically and is the fastest 16-core chip in this benchmark currently on the HWBot leaderboard.

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The Zen 5 flagship also secured a 10th-place position in HWBot's 3DMark CPU Profile 1 Thread: Hall of Fame. The Ryzen 9 9950X achieved 1,393 marks flanked by unlocked 14th Gen, 13th Gen, 12th Gen, and 11th Gen parts, with all of these Intel chips running well over 6 GHz.

In the same test, but utilizing all cores, the Ryzen 9 9950X managed to secure a less impressive 23rd place. However, the Zen 5 chip managed to secure 1st place among all 16-core CPU runs, making it the fastest 16-core CPU in this specific benchmark on HWBot.

The Ryzen 9 9950X secured 107th place in Cinebench 2003 and 20th place among 16-core chips only in the same benchmark. In the HWBot X265 benchmark, the Zen 5 chip scored a result good enough for 32nd place and was again the fastest 16-core chip in this benchmark specifically.

The Ryzen 9 9950X's performance is impressive. The CPU leveraged AMD's PBO and Curve Optimizer technologies with speedy RAM. The system utilizes a custom loop to remain cool during the benchmarks. Extreme overclockers can break world records with this chip once they put it under liquid nitrogen.

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Aaron Klotz
Aaron Klotz
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Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.

2 Comments Comment from the forums
  • slash3
    It is not out of the box performance, no. No need to state odd assumptions like that.

    It is a heavy PBO and CO optimized setup, with raised ECLK and high frequency memory on an enormous custom loop.

    You can browse their submissions if you're unfamiliar with the user, which you are. They are also active on a few forums and have posted frequently over the years, including about the recent 9000 series escapades.
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  • Vanderlindemedia
    slash3 said:
    It is not out of the box performance, no. No need to state odd assumptions like that.

    It is a heavy PBO and CO optimized setup, with raised ECLK and high frequency memory on an enormous custom loop.

    You can browse their submissions if you're unfamiliar with the user, which you are. They are also active on a few forums and have posted frequently over the years, including about the recent 9000 series escapades.

    Is that not the goal of submitting scores? Since 2x00 series (Ryzen) it was all about slapping a good cooler onto it - the PBO would do the work for you and slightly get higher single thread clocks compared to all core OC's.

    I'm curious to see the (top) performance of that 9950X - I'm sitting at doing an upgrade and it that thing is worth it ill slap money down the table just like that.

    So good to see AMD back - competing in top end and offering still excellent value for the money.
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