AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Zen4 CPU not showing its full potential in leaked Cinebench R23 tests

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X tested in Cinebench R23

Looks like someone with access to AMD’s upcoming 16-core CPU was kind enough to share some preliminary benchmarks.

AMD already presented some benchmarks during the official product announcement this Monday. However, not everything was shown yet, so we are still missing some important data that would otherwise help us understand how fast Ryzen 7000 series really is. Enter new Cinebench R23 scores from Baidu and Chiphell:

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X in Cinebench R23, Source: Baidu

According to the post on Baidu, which unfortunately has already been removed, the Ryzen 9 7950X scores 2205 points in single-core Cinebench R23 test and 29649 points in multi-core. That is actually better than both Ryzen 9 5950X and Core i9-12900K, but it is still lower than AMD claims.

There is also a new score on Chiphell allegedly featuring the same CPU but with more efficient All-in-One cooling. Here, the sample scored 36256 points which is even faster than leaked Core i9-13900K score.

Rumored AMD Ryzen 7000 Cinebench R23 Performance
VideoCardz.comSingle-CoreMulti-Core
AMD Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” (Zen4) *
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (AIO) (16C / 32T) TBC
36256
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (Air) (16C / 32T)
2205
29649
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
(8C /16T)
20XX
198XX
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
(6C /12T)
19XX
151XX
Intel 13th Gen Core “Raptor Lake” *
Intel Core i9-13900K (24C / 32T)
2290
35700
Intel Core i7-13700K (16C / 24T)
2120
28850
Intel Core i5-13600K
(14C / 20T)
1967
24200
Intel 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake”
Intel Core i9-12900K
(16C / 24T)
1903
26229
Intel Core i7-12700K (12C / 20T)
1843
21553
Intel Core i5-12600K (10C / 16T)
1809
16878
AMD Ryzen 5000 “Vermeer” (Zen3)
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (16C / 32T)
1669
26291
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
(12C /24T)
1590
21367
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (8C /16T)
1594
15310
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (8C /16T)
1530
13800
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (6C /12T)
1525
10812
* Based on leaked scores; Intel 12th Gen Core + DDR5-5200; AMD Ryzen 5000 + DDR4-3600 (Source: KitGuru )

AMD promised 48% better performance compared to 5950X and 41% better than 12900K. This newly leaked scores put 7950X 38% higher than 5950X and 12900K.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs 5950X & 12900K in Cinebench R23, Source: AMD

So, there is clearly some bottleneck depending on the cooling solution used. Furthermore, the CPU was supposedly tested with old F1 BIOS for AORUS X670E Xtreme motherboard from Gigabyte (F4 is already available). Additionally, the CPU was allegedly tested with DDR5-5600 memory, which has relatively low performance in AIDA64 benchmark as shown below.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X in AIDA64, Source: Baidu

According to the latest rumors , AMD may lift the embargo reviews on September 20th, so still more than two weeks away from now. However, should be enough time to consider the purchase before it hit the shelves on September 27th.

Source: Baidu (now removed) via @harukaze5719 , Wccftech

Update: Ryzen 9 7950X Cinebench MT score with AIO cooling has been leaked as well.