AMD Threadripper has been dethroned because the world champ as Intel’s Xeon W9-3495X 56-core workstation processor completely crushes it within the industry-standard Cinebench R23 benchmark.

Cinebench R23, in case you have not used it, is a visible rendering benchmark that breaks up a picture into particular person segments which are every drawn to the display screen sequentially. The extra processing cores and threads you will have accessible to attract these segments, the faster the complete picture might be rendered and the upper a processors ensuing rating shall be.

For the longest time, the AMD Threadripper line of workstation chips have held the highest spot, due to their ample variety of processing cores, with the Threadripper 3995X and 5995X every that includes 64 cores and 128 threads. This usually provides the Threadripper chips a considerable benefit over Intel’s competing Xeon chips, which is one thing that actually stunned us about these outcomes for the reason that Intel Xeon W9-3495X has eight fewer cores and 16 fewer threads.

Nonetheless, regardless of the decrease variety of cores and threads, the W9-3495X managed to realize 132,484 factors in Cinebench R23’s multicore efficiency. That is greater than 10,000 factors larger than the earlier world-record holder, the AMD Threadripper 5995WX, which scored a 121,215.

Whereas it is a big win for Intel, and positively comes with some bragging rights, these may be shortlived. As Wccftech (opens in new tab) notes, AMD’s Zen four Threadripper chips are on the horizon, and a 64-core/128-thread Threadripper 7995WX may very nicely retake the crown earlier than the 12 months is out.

That is nice for Intel, however why ought to I care?

The brand new world document for Cinebench R23 is definitely spectacular, however it’s additionally an extremely area of interest document for most individuals and could be very onerous to recreate as nicely.

Each the Intel and AMD information have been set utilizing chips that have been being cooled by particular liquid nitrogen setups – not one thing you are prone to have useful even in case you had an Intel Xeon W9-3495X, which is not seemingly for the reason that Xeon and Threadripper line of chips are high-end workstation equipment that price many 1000’s of {dollars}.

What’s extra, these information have been achieved by overclocking the processor to realize sooner frequencies, on this case about 184% sooner than the usual clock frequency the Xeon chip is designed to function at.

This nonetheless issues for the common customers although. The enhancements within the Intel Xeon’s instructions-per-clock (IPC) that allowed it to interrupt the world document aren’t going to be restricted to Intel’s Xeon lineup. And we will anticipate them to make their method into the producer’s chips for the patron market within the coming years, simply because the enhancements that AMD makes to its Zen four Threadrippers are going to learn its whole processor lineup going ahead.

So the additional Intel and AMD can push their finest processors, even when they’re for workstation PCs, anybody in search of the perfect gaming PC right down to the perfect Chromebook are going to learn from the engineering that went into producing this world document feat.