Professional overclocker der8auer and system builder Puget Systems have shared the first benchmarks of Intel’s new 56-core Xeon W9-3495X processor. The CPU achieves, among other things, up to 70,000 points in Cinebench R23 with an average power consumption of 400 to 500W.
Der8auer tested the processor in combination with an ASUS Pro WS W790E-Sage motherboard, 128GB of DDR5 memory and a 360mm AIO water cooler. The hedt CPU was thus tested in Cinebench R23, among other things, where the chip achieved scores of 67,453 to 70,079 with standard clock speeds of up to 2.9GHz on all cores. In addition, according to der8auer, the processor consumed 400 to 500W of power, with a peak of 516W.
The overclocker also tested the chip in Geekbench with all 56 cores at 4.2GHz. In addition, the CPU had a power consumption of between 300 and 700W, with a short peak to 1097W. The processor reached a multicore score of 53,817 in Geekbench 5, where the current world record was 48,025 points with a Threadripper PRO 5995WX at 4.35GHz.
Puget Systems also posted its first benchmarks of Intel’s new Xeon lineup online on Wednesday. The CPU in Cinebench R23 recorded 64,738 points. Puget concluded that the new Xeon processors perform well in workloads that can use many cores, but that the CPUs perform less well in some other workloads such as Photoshop.
With these first benchmark scores, the Xeon W9-3495X should in multithreaded workloads, rendering performance comparable to the Threadripper PRO 5995WX chips, AMD’s current flagship model. That processor has a maximum of 64 cores and is based on the Zen 3 microarchitecture. AMD would later release new Threadripper chips based on Zen 4 and with up to 96 cores, although the company has not yet officially announced those CPUs.
Intel announced its new Xeon CPUs earlier this month. The processors are positioned as a spiritual successor to Intel’s earlier Core-X processors for high-end desktops. The Xeon CPUs have more cores, PCIe lanes and memory channels than Intel’s consumer processors. The top model, the Xeon W9-3495X, has a suggested retail price of $ 5889. AMD’s current flagship, the Threadripper PRO 5995WX, has an MSRP of $6,499.
