Four of AMD’s forthcoming Zen 5 CPUs have apparently just been benchmarked, and their results show a definite uptick in performance compared to the company’s current chips. This latest AMD Ryzen benchmark leak comes straight from the Geekbench results browser, and purportedly reveals the performance of not only the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X, but also the new Ryzen 9 9900X and 9950X.
All four of these new CPUs are based on the upcoming AMD Zen 5 architecture, and are prime candidates for our best gaming CPU guide if AMD can get the pricing right. The Ryzen 7 9700X has eight cores and a maximum boost clock of 5.5GHz, while the Ryzen 5 9600X has six cores and the ability to boost its clock speed to up to 5.4GHz. Meanwhile, the top-end Ryzen 9 chips include the 12-core 9900X and 16-core 9950X.
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