AMD's new $12,000 processor: Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX tested against 7995WX in Geekbench

AMD launched its new Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 series CPUs earlier this month, and now the flagship Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX processor has been tested in Geekbench with a score of over 30,000 points.

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The current record holder on Geekbench is Intel's previous-gen Core i7-13700K processor with 33,962 points, which is because Geekbench usually favors Intel in multi-threaded CPU tests, but that doesn't mean that they're faster in multi-threaded operations than Threadripper chips with more cores and threads.

AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series "Shimada Peak" CPUs are now out, with the flagship Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX, which pushes 30,170 points, slightly less than the 30,579 points out of the Zen 4-based Ryzen Threadripper 7995WX chip.

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The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX processor is based on the Zen 5 architecture, packing a huge 96 cores and 192 threads of processing power, the same 96C/192T as the 7995WX (which is why the scores are so similar). These are just Geekbench results, so if you slap down over $12,000+ for the 9995WX, you're going to get far more performance in other workloads, not just Geekbench benchmarking.

AMD also introduced a smaller family of new Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper 9000X HEDT chips, aimed at HEDTs and entry-level workstations. Key differences between the PRO 9000 WX series and the non-PRO chips being the dropping of AMD PRO features, and truncated I/O features that drop down to 4-channel (8 sub-channel) DDR5 memory, reduced 48-lane PCIe 5.0 root complex, and just three SKUs that span 24C/48T through to 64C/128T.

The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-series CPUs start with 12C/24T, ranging up to 96C/128T. The new CPUs have up to 5.4GHz maximum boost clocks, no matter which SKU you choose. On offer with the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-series CPUs, we've got the 9945WX with 12C/24T, 9955WX with 16C/32T, 9965WX with 24C/48T, 9975WX with 32C/64T, 9985WX with 64C/128T, and finally the 9995WX with 96C/192T.

On the L3 cache side of things, we've got 64MB, 64MB, 128MB, 128MB, 256MB, and a whopping 384MB on the 9945WX, 9955WX, 9965WX, 9975WX, 9985WX, and 9995WX chips, respectively.