Two weeks from now, AMD is going to release the much-awaited The AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors officially. So far, leaks about the upcoming next-generation desktop CPUs have been very abundant. A new one surfaced today in the form of a benchmark score showing how AMD Ryzen 16 Core 5.2GHz CPU destroyed Intel i9 9980XE.
Several weeks ago a 16 core beast of a chip based on the next generation Zen 2 microarchitecture of AMD was leaked. Two days later AMD confirmed and launched it as the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X. It is the first gaming 16 core processor and also the fastest of its kind in the world.
The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X has a clock speed at base of 3.5 GHz and a boost clock speed 4.7 GHz. The most recent leak reveals an AMD Ryzen 3000 series 16 core processor that does not run on either of these clock speed frequencies. This could suggest that the latest leak is an entirely different chip that was announced by the semiconductor titan.
Crunching the numbers, the benchmark score reveals a 16 core 32 thread processor with a base frequency of 3.3 GHz, which is around 200MHz short of that of AMD Ryzen 9 3950X. However, it is running on the all-core overclocked frequency of 5.2 GHz. Simply looking at the base frequency, anyone can tell that it is not the 3950X.
This only means only one of two things; either AMD has an unannounced Ryzen 9 processor that's waiting for a reveal, or it is simply an engineering sample that the company is currently testing. Either way, the leaked scores reveal that AMD's Zen 2 is very capable of achieving insanely high clock speed frequencies even in high core count products. The mysterious chip was paired with DDR4 memory and a high-end MSI motherboard.
The AMD Ryzen 16 Core 5.2GHz CPU was put to the test against the fastest desktop processor made by Intel, which is the $2000 18 core Intel i9 9980XE. Based on the result, the two more cores $2000 chip is surprisingly losing. During the eve of the announcement of the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, professional overclockers have shattered records.
Leaked benchmark score courtesy of wccftech! pic.twitter.com/fErLdGFwFa — techcentrik (@techcentrik) June 26, 2019
The scores could have been due to the exotic cooling of the AMD Ryzen 16 Core 5.2GHz CPU to be able to maintain an all-core frequency. But, until AMD revealed the model of that mysterious chip with insane performance score, we will be left giving our best guess. On July 7, AMD will release the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, by then, we will know what this Zen 2 microarchitecture based on the 7nm process is capable of.
