One of AMD’s upcoming hexa-core Zen4 chips (called the Ryzen 5 7600X) has just outperformed Intel’s current flagship Core i9-12900K in single-core performance in a new benchmark. Still, the leaked benchmark is a User Benchmark, and the AMD chip is an engineering sample, so it should be treated with caution.
Unreleased AMD processor (via Tum_Apisak (Opens in a new tab)) 100-000000593-20_Y Displayed with an identifier.according to Benchmark report (Opens in a new tab)Since there are 6 cores and 12 threads, assuming AMD holds the exact number of cores of a Ryzen 5 SKU with Zen4, it should be a Ryzen 5 7600X. This is an engineering sample, but the Ryzen 5 7600X chip showed impressive clock speeds. The hexacore part reportedly operated with a 4.4GHz base clock and a 4.95GHz boost clock. It’s plausible that the processor still has some gas in the tank, as AMD boasts that the upcoming Ryzen 7000 processor will arrive with a boost clock above 5GHz.
The Ryzen 5 7600X testbed consisted of ASRock N7-B65XT motherboard and 32GB (2x16GB) G.Skill’s Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-5600 (F5-5600U3636C16G 2x16GB) memory. Slow DDR5 memory can delay the Ryzen 5 7600X a bit.
The Ryzen 5 7600X delivers up to 22% higher single core performance than the Core i9-12900K. Compared to the Core i5-12600K, the unannounced Ryzen 5 7600X outperforms the Intel chip by 27%. In addition, when comparing generations, the Ryzen 5 7600X showed 56% better single-core performance than the Ryzen 5 5600X.
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Benchmark
| processor | Single core | Multi-core |
|---|---|---|
| Ryzen 5 7600X | 243 | 1,478 |
| Core i9-12900K | 200 | 2,946 |
| Core i5-12600K | 191 | 1,884 |
| Ryzen 5 5600X | 156 | 1,198 |
The Ryzen 5 7600X was a single core performance stud. However, it may not be catching up with the Core i9-12900K due to the mismatch in the number of cores. For reference, the Core i9-12900K is a 16-core Alder Lake processor with 8 performance (P) cores and 8 efficient (E) cores. The Core i9-12900K decimated the Ryzen 5 7600X by 99% in the multi-core category, which was not surprising.
Early Ryzen 5 7600X samples appear to lack multi-core performance a bit. According to UserBenchmark, the Core i5-12600K achieved 27% higher multi-core performance than the Ryzen 5 7600X. However, the Ryzen 5 7600X outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X by up to 23%.
AMD may launch the Zen4 processor in the fall of 2022. Meanwhile, Intel may launch a 13th generation Raptor Lake chip around that time. It’s an exciting time for processors, as there are two new architectures that will disrupt the market by the end of the year.
