These leaks originate from an unknown supply as they normally do, however they arrive to us by the use of tech YouTuber RedGamingTech who is legendary (or maybe notorious) for posting {hardware} leaks, particularly about upcoming AMD elements. In his most up-to-date video, RedGamingTech just about cuts straight to the purpose and presents what he proposes to be leaked Geekbench and Cinebench numbers from “late ES” Zen 5 processors. ES on this case refers after all to “Engineering Pattern”, pre-release processors which are used for testing and verification.
Evaluating the numbers that RedGamingTech (RGT) offers for the Ryzen 9 8950X, we see between a 12% and 21% improve in single-threaded Geekbench 6, whereas the multi-threaded benchmark achieve is bigger, between 18% and 40%. The variance right here comes all the way down to the vary of obtainable benchmark ends in the Geekbench database; if we use the numbers on the official Geekbench CPU charts, it is 16% single-thread and 25% multi-thread.
In the meantime, in Cinebench 2024, the Ryzen 9 8950X apparently scores “about 2400 factors” within the multi-core metric, whereas its single-core rating is “about 140 factors.” These numbers won’t sound excessive in case you’re aware of older Cinebench variations, however understand that 2024 fully revised the size. In truth, 140 factors on the single-threaded rating is round a 12% achieve over the Ryzen 9 7950X, whereas the multi-core rating is true about 10% sooner.
Both approach, these positive factors aren’t dangerous gen-on-gen, particularly contemplating that RGT remarks that this CPU continues with 16 cores on the top-end SKU for Socket AM5. He notes that the cIOD, the I/O chiplet for Ryzen processors that holds the reminiscence controller amongst different elements, is anticipated to be principally unchanged from Zen 4. That implies that reminiscence efficiency will in all probability be quite related, and so 16-core Zen 5 processors may begin to run into bandwidth limitations.
RedGamingTech additionally gave some numbers for Geekbench and Cinebench 2024 on a Ryzen 9 8950HS engineering pattern. That is purportedly a 35-watt Zen 5 cellular processor from the Strix Level household. The benchmark values that he gives up are extraordinarily spectacular; compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS, we’re Geekbench rating jumps of 37% on a single thread and a whopping 77% throughout a number of threads. The Cinebench single-thread quantity is barely worse at round 24%, however the multi-threaded rating is greater than double what a 7940HS can do.
A few of the multi-core achieve can in all probability be defined by means of Strix Level supposedly sporting twelve cores in a hybrid Zen-4-plus-Zen-4c configuration. Even nonetheless, that is an enormous soar in single-threaded efficiency as effectively, particularly contemplating that 35W TDP score for the leaked information. That would level to drastically-improved energy effectivity for Zen 5. Some enchancment is anticipated due to the soar to TSMC’s N3, however this suggests fairly a shift.
Lastly, he talks a bit in regards to the Ryzen 9 8955HX, which is supposedly going to be primarily based on AMD’s “Strix Halo”, or as he calls it, “Sarlak”. If you have not examine it earlier than, this CPU is supposedly going to be a chiplet-based processor with as much as 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, an enormous 40-CU RDNA 3.5 GPU, and a 256-bit reminiscence bus. It will not match on Socket AM5, but it surely may make some killer gaming laptops or probably mini-PCs à la the Mac Mini.
Certainly, Apple appears to be instantly within the sights of AMD with this processor, because it’s quite corresponding to the just-announced M3 Professional—identical reminiscence bus width, 4 extra CPU cores, and two extra GPU “cores” if we rely by RDNA WGPs as a substitute of the older Compute Unit metric. RGT claims that the Ryzen 9 8955HX performs equally to the Ryzen 9 8950X in Geekbench and Cinebench, though we might really anticipate increased efficiency because of the wider reminiscence bus. He additionally says that gaming efficiency is much like a Radeon RX 6750 XT regardless of the chip’s 125W TDP.
After delivering the benchmarks, RGT talked a bit about what he is heard regarding the Ryzen 8000 collection CPUs in addition to the Zen 5 processor cores. The earlier 10-15% IPC expectation got here from a CPU core design inside roadmap leaked by fellow YouTuber Moore’s Regulation is Useless. These numbers, in response to RGT, had been primarily based on SPECint benchmarks, particularly, and Zen 5 is definitely significantly sooner in workloads that blend integer and floating-point math. That might be because of the elevated dispatch width (from 6 to eight directions) on Zen 5.
Moreover, he says that the processor design philosophy at AMD has shifted considerably towards its high-margin EPYC CPU enterprise. Consequently, the processors are being designed with a lesser emphasis on single-threaded CPU clock and a larger emphasis on multi-threaded clocks, that means that the hole between the 2 has shrunk. Good for creators and scientists; not nice for players, though hardcore PC players ought to in all probability be contemplating an X3D processor anyway, and people already run decrease clocks.
We in all probability needn’t remind an viewers of HotHardware readers that these “leaks” are unverified and little greater than rumors till we get main or secondary affirmation, the latter of which might be a second supply, and the previous of which might be straight from AMD. What do you concentrate on RGT’s numbers? Tell us within the feedback.
