AMD's Ryzen 7 3700X Beats Intel Core i9-9900K In New Benchmarks

We're just over a week away from the official disclosure of AMD's 3rd Generation Ryzen 'Zen 2' processor performance and while I'm busy testing them as I write this, Twitter user @TUM_APISAK has discovered several results for the Ryzen 7 3700X in the Sisoftware benchmark ranker database, which can be compared to Intel's Core i9-9900K, beating it several key tests.

The results reveal several benchmark results for AMD's new 8-core CPU, which was running in an Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard, although it's unclear as to what the memory speed was - a big factor in the performance of Ryzen CPUs.

Several results have been posted, three of which I've graphed here against results for the Core i9-9900K that are easily searchable in the database here. In the processor arithmetic benchmark, which measures the arithmetic and floating point performance of processors, the Intel CPU still has a lead, but it's less than 8%.

The image processing score was one of the biggest wins for AMD with a 15% lead over the Intel CPU.

The above benchmark the multi-media and media processing performance of processors and here the AMD CPU is 9% faster than the Core i9-9900K.

These are mostly encouraging signs that AMD is going to perform well in content creation software outside of its beloved Cinebench, but as usual, as the results have not been totally verified, it's best to take them with a pinch of salt as they could be slower or perhaps even faster depending on the test systems used here.

I'll be back on 7th July with my full reviews of AMD's new Ryzen processors and Navi graphics cards so be sure to follow my channel here in Forbes, my Youtube channel or on Facebook for the real benchmarks when they land and also check out my AMD Ryzen deep-dive to see what's new with 3rd Gen Ryzen and what memory you should use.