Intel’s Xeon W9-3495X continues to be humbled by AMD’s with their latest and greatest Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-core behemoth managing to score over 210,000 points on Cinebench R23 with an all core overclock of 6.25GHz on liquid nitrogen.
Over the past week, AMD’s Threadripper PRO 7995WX has managed multiple world records across various cooling methods, including both air and liquid cooling.
But those results were conducted as a form of marketing and PR, with their in-house overclocker “SAMPSON” this new record hits a little different.
Overclocker “safedisk” now holds the word record for Cinebench R23 with 210,702 points, outperforming all previous CPUs listed in the official HWBOT ranking and further highlighting the severe performance gap between AMD and Intel when it comes to server / workstation products, as the Intel Xeon W9-3495X has fallen down to 11th position for Cinebench R23 multi-core with just 132,484 points on an equal footing of liquid nitrogen.
The overclocking setup employed by safedisk includes the ASUS PRO WS WRX90E-SAGE-SE motherboard, G.Skill’s latest ZETA R5 Neo DDR5-6400 RDIMM memory, and an unconventional selection of the ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX 980 Ti GPU.
As per the information provided by safedisk, utilizing the common base of NVIDIA’s GT 710 graphics card resulted in WHEA errors during the benchmarking sequence while the inclusion of the 980 Ti provided a much more stable system boosting the score.
We don’t have the official power consumption of the Threadripper PRO 7995WX during safedisk’s LN2 escapades despite it reporting 389W, given how SAMPSON’s previous results indicated a power consumption of 985 Watts on Cinebench R23 with a far lower core voltage of 1.34v it’s fairly safe to assume that even despite the benchmark’s failure to utilize all 192 threads present on the AMD CPU, at over 1.5V.
The voltage reports like the power consumption is incorrect but it’s almost certain that the wattage drawn by the 7995WX would certainly exceed over a thousand watts regardless.
I am genuinely staggered and at a loss for words in that safedisk managed to achieve 6.25GHz across all 96-cores.
I genuinely doubt that there’s much Intel can really do to stop the onslaught of AMD’s newly released Threadripper CPUs, given how the 56-core Sapphire Rapids chip overclocked to 5.4GHz on liquid nitrogen manages to be bested by AMD’s flagship processor with traditional air cooling.
There is quite simply to far a gap in terms of single core performance between Sapphire Rapids and Zen 4 based Threadripper, and there’s an obscene gap in terms of overall core counts (56 vs 96), Intel will likely clap back with the inclusion of the 64-core Emerald Rapids which should provide a net gain in single core performance alongside offering more cores overall.
But I highly doubt that Emerald Rapids would even come close to actually being a threat to AMD who seemingly hold all the cards at the moment in terms of performance, core count, efficiency and affordability.
