Several days ago, PassMark has updated their single thread performance rank, and the upcoming AMD Ryzen 5 5600X is on the top position with the score of 3,495. If you think Ryzen 5 5600X is the king, the Ryzen 9 5950X will blow you out of your chair. The 16-core monster has catapulted its way to the top of the mainstream processor chart in both single-and multi-thread performance.
The scores of Ryzen 9 5950X on PassMark are no longer available, but German publication ComputerBase managed to grab screenshots of the Zen 3 flagship’s results before they were erased.
Leaked AMD Ryzen 5 5950X Benchmarks:
Processor | PassMark Single-Thread Score | PassMark Multi-Thread Score |
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Ryzen 9 5950X | 3,693 | 45,563 |
Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,495 | 22,824 |
Core i9-10900K | 3,176 | 24,261 |
Ryzen 9 3950X | 2,747 | 39,277 |
Core i9-10980XE | N/A | 34,138 |
The Ryzen 9 5950X is reportedly up to 34.4% faster than the Ryzen 9 3950X in single-thread performance and up to 16% in multi-thread performance. For reference, the Ryzen 9 5950X comes with a 3.4 GHz base clock and 4.9 GHz boost clock, while the Ryzen 9 3950X has a 3.5GHz base clock and 4.7 GHz. It was to expected that the Ryzen 9 5950X would be superior chip.