AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 9 9900X Cinebench R23 scores highlight up to 14% performance improvement over Zen 4
Yesterday, we saw the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X put through Cinebench R23, where it offered up to a 14% performance uplift over the Ryzen 5 7600X. With unlimited power, the Ryzen 9 9950X was found to be a whopping 34% faster than a Ryzen 9 7950X. Now, the remaining two Zen 5 Granite Ridge SKUs, the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 7 9700X, have been subjected to the same benchmark.
Starting with the Ryzen 7 9700X, it scores 2,280 and 21,533 in Cinebench R23's single and multicore tests, making it 14% and 12% faster than the Ryzen 7 7700X (1,987/19,088). This figure sits in line with other leaked benchmarks, which predicted anything between a 12-18% single-core performance uplift over Zen 5. It is even more impressive considering the Ryzen 7 9700 has a TDP of just 65 Watts vs 105 Watts on the last-gen part.
Next up, the Ryzen 9 9900X scores 2,232 and 32,216 in the same benchmark:10% faster in single core performance and about 9% in multicore than the Ryzen 9 7900. While this isn't as impressive as the rest of the Zen 5 lineup, it should get better when the CPU launches on August 15.
Intel's Arrow Lake desktop chips are yet to appear on Cinebench R23. The only metric we have so far is Geekbench 5.5, where the Core Ultra 7 265KF traded blows with the Ryzen 5 7600X.