With a maximum peak frequency of 5.80 GHz, an AMD Ryzen 9000 “Granite Ridge” desktop processor engineering sample was found to give an astounding 19% higher single-threaded performance increase over an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. The Socket AM5 desktop processor series, which uses the new “Zen 5” CPU microarchitecture, is code-named “Granite Ridge”. The OPN code for the unidentified “Granite Ridge” processor is 100-0000001290. Since we’re just concerned with single-threaded speed, its CPU core count is meaningless. The single-threaded benchmark task is causing the CPU to accelerate up to 5.80 GHz, which indicates that the core managing it is reaching this speed. This frequency is 100 MHz greater than the 5.70 GHz maximum frequency that the Ryzen 9 7950X processor, which utilizes the “Zen 4” architecture, can achieve.

The CPU-Z Bench is the single-threaded benchmark in question. The CPU TDP of 170 W is mentioned in the largely blurry CPU-Z screenshot that displays the OPN, indicating that this engineering sample chip has either 12 or 16 cores. The CPU-Z Bench single-thread score of 910 points for the chip is comparable to the 908 points scored by the Intel Core i9-14900K. It is important to note that the i9-14900K achieves the 908 points that comprise part of CPU-Z’s reference results by raising one of its P-cores to 6.00 GHz. Thus, it is evident from the outset that “Zen 5” has a greater IPC than the P-core from “Raptor Cove” that powers the i9-14900K. It may wind up outperforming the Ryzen 7000 X3D family in terms of gaming performance.