AMD’s new flagship workstation processor has been put through its paces, delivering outstanding performance without requiring special treatment. Overclocked by SkyWalkerAMD, the CPU maintained just shy of 5GHz on all 96 cores, allowing it to climb high in the Cinebench test.
To be exact, the Threadripper Pro 9995WX delivered 186,800 points in Cinebench R23, thanks to a 4,997.63MHz all-core frequency. As you can guess, driving 96 cores / 192 threads at effectively 5GHz demands a lot of juice; in this case, a whopping 947W. In turn, this translates into a lot of heat to dissipate, for which even a liquid cooling setup was barely enough, causing the hottest point to reach a toasty 98°C.
For comparison, using the official PBO setting, the 9995WX achieved 173,452 points at 840W, making it 7% slower than this manual overclock. To put it otherwise, with this 5GHz OC, the Threadripper Pro 9995WX sits 11% away from the record holder on 96-core CPUs, safedisk, who managed to achieve 210,702 points using a Liquid-Nitrogen-cooled Threadripper Pro 7995WX clocked at 6.2GHz.
Interestingly, the $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX comes configured with 350W TDP out of the box, showing that the chip, or should we say the 12 chiplets plus IO die, can gobble much more power when authorised, resulting in a substantial performance improvement. Each of these chiplets packs 8 Zen 5 cores clocked at 2.5GHz base and 5.4GHz boost, sharing 32MB of L3 and 8MB of L2 caches, for a total of 384MB and 96MB, respectively, available system-wide.
The score was achieved on an Asus Pro WS TRX50 Sage motherboard paired with 144GB of DDR5-6000 CL32 memory running in an unusual 3x48GB DIMM configuration. As a reminder, the board supports quad-channel memory.
The Threadripper 9000 series is set to launch this week, on July 23, offering professionals and enthusiasts high performance while maintaining, dare we say, acceptable prices. We can expect new records to pop out as more users get their hands on one. That said, 96 cores at 5GHz is already a nice spot, especially since it seems daily usable (that’s bit of a stretch, ed.) thanks to its standard cooling needs.
