Dual AMD Zen 5-based system shown scoring over 123K points in Cinebench R23

Although AMD's Zen 5 architecture is not expected to debut anytime soon, it seems the company is already hard at work developing Zen 5 EPYC processors. In a recent report, an alleged engineering sample of a dual AMD Zen 5 CPU system has been spotted running the Cinebench R23 nT benchmark, scoring over 123K points. 

According to a report by Moore's Law is Dead, an alleged engineering sample of a dual AMD Zen 5 CPU system has been spotted running a popular benchmark. The system featured a dual-socket system with 64-core Zen 5 EPYC processors, which scored an impressive 123K points in the Cinebench R23 multi-threaded test. In comparison, a dual AMD EPYC 9654 system (capped at 256 threads) achieves around 108K points, about 12% lower than the two Zen 5 chips.

This early Zen 5 engineering sample was clocked up to 3.85 GHz, though it's uncertain whether that's a peak boost speed or something close to average. The leaker also showed the CPU has 128 cores and 256 threads, with 8 CCDs, each of which has eight cores. Interestingly, it's mentioned that a variant of Zen 5 called Turin-Dense would have 16 cores per chiplet. Moreover, the screenshot from Task Manager shows 10MB of L1 cache, meaning it should have 80KB per core (up from the 64 KB/core on Zen 4).

It's worth noting that the Zen 5 architecture is not expected to debut anytime soon. Still, these early engineering samples running in labs suggest that the upcoming architecture could offer a significant boost in performance over the current Zen 4 EPYC CPUs. AMD EPYC Zen 5 is expected to launch next year, bringing a completely redesigned architecture with a new pipeline and integrated AI optimizations.

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KitGuru says: Since this is the result of an engineering sample, the final product should score higher, even if just slightly. How much better do you think it will be?

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