Ryzen 9000 Benchmarks Leaked: Granite Ridge Outpaces i9-14900K

AMD plans to launch the next-generation Zen 5 series architecture in 2024, encompassing the Granite Ridge for desktop platforms, Strix Point and Fire Range for mobile platforms, and Turin for server platforms. The new Zen 5 series architecture includes Zen 5, Zen 5 V-Cache, and Zen 5c designs, with versions available in both 4nm and 3nm processes.

Dr. Lisa Su, AMD’s CEO, will deliver the keynote address at COMPUTEX 2024 on Monday, June 3rd, likely revealing new details about the Zen 5 series architecture. According to Wccftech, although COMPUTEX 2024 is still a few days away, benchmark results for the flagship model of the next-generation Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors have already surfaced online.

Screenshots indicate that the chip originates from Granite Ridge, installed on the AM5 platform, with a TDP of 170W. It is identified as an engineering sample (ES) with the code 100-000001290, consistent with previously leaked information about the Zen 5 desktop processors. Due to partial obfuscation of the numbers, the exact specifications of the processor remain unclear, but based on the TDP and prior information, it is presumed to be a mid-to-high-end model with at least 8 cores. The processor is reported to achieve a boost frequency of 5.8 GHz, belonging to the non-X3D chips.

In CPU-Z benchmarks, this Granite Ridge chip scores 910 points in single-thread performance, approximately 19% higher than the Ryzen 9 7950X’s 767 points, and slightly above the Intel Core i9-13900K’s 902 points and Core i9-14900K’s 908 points.

While the Zen 5 architecture appears to offer a significant performance improvement over Zen 4, Granite Ridge will face competition not only from Intel’s 13th and 14th generation Core processors based on Raptor Lake but also from Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake, which is expected to be the true challenge later this year.