Leaked AMD Zen 6 benchmarks confirm huge performance gains over Zen 5
New AMD Medusa Point benchmark unveils larger generational gains for AMD’s Zen 6 CPUs
A new Geekbench result for AMD’s “Plum-MDS1” processor, an alleged Zen 6 “Medusa Point” processor. This CPU has four Zen 6 CPU cores and six Zen 6c CPU cores, and acts as a next-gen replacement for AMD’s Strix Point series CPUs.
This new result for Medusa Point highlights stronger generational gains for AMD’s Zen 6 CPUs. Geekbench measured a boost clock speed of 5.37GHz for AMD’s new processor. Not bad for an engineering sample, especially for what will be a mobile-focused CPU design.
Compared with a prior Medusa Point result, these new benchmark scores show single-threaded performance gains of almost 5% and multi-threaded gains of almost 10%. These boosts extend what were already strong generational gains for AMD’s Zen 6 CPUs.
Strong generational gains
In Geekbench 6.6, AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 achieves single-threaded and multi-threaded scores of 2605 and 13397, respectively. For AMD’s leaked Medusa Point CPU, single-threaded and multi-threaded scores of 3329 and 16555 are achieved. This gives AMD’s new Zen 6 CPU a 27.7% single-threaded and 23.6% multi-threaded advantage. Not bad for an early engineering sample. This begs the question: how much faster will retail-ready silicon be?
(Leaked AMD Zen 6 “Medusa Point” Geekbench 6.6 result – via HXL)
This Geekbench result shows some interesting specifications for AMD’s “Medusa Point” CPU. However, it is unknown how accurately Geekbench is detecting this GPU’s cache sizes and features. The benchmark detects 32MB of L3 cache, which is notably higher than Strix Point, which had 24MB of L3 cache. The benchmark also notes support for new instructions like AXV-512-fp16.
Older Zen 6 CPU leaks have hinted at higher clock speeds for AMD’s next-generation CPUs. If this is true, Zen 6 CPUs should benefit from higher clock speeds across the range, boosting overall CPU performance. For this benchmark, it is unclear if AMD’s performance gain comes from boosted clock speeds or architectural enhancements (perhaps both?). Regardless, 20+% gains in single-threaded performance are a big deal for AMD. Will the same hold true for AMD’s Zen 6 desktop CPUs?
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