Something to look forward to: AMD is expected to unveil its Zen 5 lineup later this month, and going by the latest reports, the new chips could offer a massive upgrade over their predecessors, especially for those wanting the best 3D modeling, animation, rendering, video editing, and compositing solutions on the market.
The information comes from Anandtech forum user Igor_Kavinski, who posted a series of Blender benchmarks for the Ryzen 9 9950X at multiple TDPs over the past several days. The results showcase the upcoming processor's prowess at 90W, 120W, 160W, and 230W, offering potential buyers an idea of both its performance and its power efficiency.
At 60W, the Ryzen 9 9950X achieved a combined Blender score of 327.7, while at 90W, it notched up a significantly higher 486.9 points. At 120W, the new chip scored a highly impressive 576 points, while at 160W, it was able to achieve a score of 678. In comparison, the Ryzen 9 7950X could only muster 599.2 points at 170W (courtesy: Hail The Brain Slug), suggesting that the 9950X could be much faster than its predecessor while being more efficient.
The most interesting results can be seen when both the chips were tested at 230W. At that PPT, the 9950X scored 353.4 in the Monster test within Blender, 226.2 in Junkshop and 171.3 in Classroom, which are consistently around 20 percent higher than the 297.3, 180.2, and 139.9 points achieved by the 7950X in the three aforementioned benchmarks, respectively.
The scores are even more impressive when you consider that the chip Kavinski has access to is only an engineering sample and not the final retail product. Engineering samples are used for testing purposes and often have lower clock speeds compared to the retail SKUs, meaning they do not always offer top-notch performance. In this case, the 9950X ES had a boost speed of up to 5.62 GHz, which is lower than the chip's official 5.7GHz turbo clock.
The test system for the Ryzen 9 9950X used AMD's Precision Boost Overdrive feature that introduces a small performance boost over the default setup. It also had water cooling, which ensured that the thermals never exceeded 62-degree Celsius. The rest of the hardware specs of the test PC are unknown at this point.