Mid-range next-gen AMD Ryzen 5 7600X beats Intel’s 12900K in first tests

The leaks continue

We are entering a particularly interesting period for PC hardware , since in the near future we are expected to see both AMD’s new generation Ryzen 7000 processors that will bring the Zen 4 architecture to the fore, as well as Intel’s brand ^new 13th generation . Likewise, AMD, Nvidia, and Intel are also preparing to release new graphics cards.

With all these releases coming up, the leaks have predictably started. So, after revealing the first benchmarks for the RTX 4000 graphics cards , now a benchmark for an AMD engineering sample with code 100-000000593-20_Y has come to the public eye. This is a 6-core, 12-thread 7000 series processor, which is most likely the mid-range Ryzen 5 7600X .

The test discovered on the Userbenchmark website’s database states that the tests were done on an ASRock N7-B65XT motherboard, which is likely a B650E motherboard designed in collaboration with NZXT, with DDR5 memory running at 4800 MT/s. According to the listing, the processor has a base clock of 4.4 GHz and a turbo clock of 4.95 GHz. This frequency is much higher, by 700 MHz to be exact, compared to its predecessor, the Ryzen 5 5600X.

Although we are dealing with an engineering sample that is possibly slower than the final version of the processor, the performance of AMD’s new generation is impressive . Specifically, compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X, the all-new Ryzen 5 7600X appears to have 56% better single-core performance and 49% better performance in the quad-core test. In fact, the jump is such that even though we are talking about a mid-range model, it manages to surpass even Intel’s current flagship, the Core i9-12900K.

Going into details, in the single-core test the Ryzen 5 7600X scored 243 points, while an Intel processor reached 200 points in the same test. AMD’s new generation processor is 22% faster in this comparison and loses only in the multi-core tests since there we have an unequal comparison of 12 threads against 24.

Here are the benchmarks carried by Videocardz.