As we’re nearing the new CPUs dropping, we’re getting a better insight into their performance in power and cooling. The new Ryzen 9000 release date is set for the 31st of July so it’s no surprise we’re now getting leaks and rumors coming out on what we might expect. Currently, we have a leaker on the Anandtech Forums showing the supposed engineering sample of the top release of the next processors running the Blender benchmark across a range of power settings (thanks to Videocardz).

These might vary from the final retail version but tend to have lower clock speeds, although this sample looks to be at the right level for what we might expect the full release to be. The demanding rendering test strongly tests the rendering performance of the upcoming best CPU. That is utilizing Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO), along with water cooling, and a 230W Package Power Tracking (PPT).

Performance

During the testing, the CPU was able to boost up to 5.62GHz, which is lower than AMD’s official 5.7GHz turbo clock spec, but still quite close, especially for an engineering sample. What is fairly impressive as well is that even though it had a 230W power rating, the temperature never exceeding 62°C, which is incredibly low for the power and performance. It doesn’t specify what type of water cooling is used, an AIO or a whole loop. But that is also without the graphics card running as it is just a CPU benchmark alone.

Below are the scores of the Blender benchmark across the different power settings. But then it came to other users to give us a look at how that has improved over the previous generation. At the same power levels, there is a comparison over the 7950X. At 230W, that shows a 20-16% uplift, 120W is a lower improvement between 3-8%, 90W has 1-4W, and 60W is just 1-2%.

Overall there is a general improvement over the previous generation as you might expect. But it’s right at the highest rating where we see the biggest uplifts. All this is not the final benchmark and things still might change, but you don’t have to wait too long for the swarm of reviews and tests as the launch is just a couple of weeks away at the end of the month.

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