Intel Core i9-11900K blazes past the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X in Geekbench single-core test

[Abdul Moiz]

Intel - 98c
AMD fan boys asses 11900c

No fans or coolers could chill them out

[_MT_]

Nobody buy ryzen 9 for single core applications. Its power is in his 16 cores

The thing is 5950X is the best AMD has to offer when it comes to single core performance. Because it probably gets the highest bin dies. If 5950X can't win, probably nothing in the 5000 series will. And it's not like 900K is the first choice when all you want is single core performance. Intel has cheaper unlocked processors with high bin dies which should have similar single core potential. No, it's just a fact of life that many programs are limited by single core performance. And so it impacts your experience. Even though you might have other workloads that can use many cores and which were the reason you bought such a processor.

[Noname00]

Yeah, look at the score detail, crypto core is 5xxx in single core, and every body will love to run these avx512 every day. Most review site excluding gb5 for a reason

[Will]

Nobody stated you need 135+watts to feed that chip, no thanks.

[Vaughn]

MY 5800X scores

1707
Single-Core

10971
Multi-Core

So 10% lead in single core and 0.2% in multi which is essentially a tie.

my chip will boost to 5.02Ghz and RL is at 5.3Ghz so the difference in clock speeds is certainly helping that ST score.