AMD Ryzen 9 7900X CPU-Z Benched, Falls Short of Core i7-12700K in ST, Probably Due to Temperature Throttling

An AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-core/24-thread processor sample was put through CPU-Z Bench, the internal benchmark of the app. The chip boosted up to 5.20 GHz in the test, and ran at temperatures as high as

86°C, as reported by CPU-Z. It scored 766 points in the single-threaded test, and 11882 points in the multi-threaded one. The single-threaded numbers in particular are interesting. 766 points would pu ...