The world record in the Cinebench R23 was broken by the pair Epyc 7763

Through its fan club channel, AMD has published a test of the Epyc 7763 processor, as the top model of the current generation is called, in the Cinebench R23. It was a standard reference server configuration with two sockets (two processors), with air cooling and factory processor settings (without overclocking). Nevertheless, this result, 113,631 points, became a world record.

With such a high number of cores / threads (128/256), the Cinebench R23 no longer scales as well as we are used to in desktop configurations, so it is better to use the “lower” numbered configuration to achieve records (with two products of the same architecture) cores than the multi-core configuration clocked below.

This was the case of the previous record, when one overclocked liquid nitrogen-cooled 64-core Threadripper 3990X surpassed a pair of factory-clocked and air-cooled Epics 7H12 with a total of 128 cores.

CineBench R23

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Pair of Epics 7763 (Zen 3) compared to the pair of Epics 7H12 (Zen 2) achieves on average 26% higher performance with the same process, the same number of cores and the same number of memory channels. If we compare only the results for which it is certain that the Epyc 7H12 ran with air cooling in the same way as the Epyc 7763, then the power difference is 30%.

In conclusion, a brief consideration: When the first Epyc, the 32-core 7601, was released, it achieved 6109 points in CineBench R15. Currently, the 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X desktop scores 4569 points in the same test, and the 16-core Zen 4 could come close to Epycu’s result. Epyc was released in mid-2017; if AMD manages to issue Zen 4 in mid-2022, it will take 5 years to achieve desktop server processor performance. If we relate this development to the score presented today and take into account that the Cinebench R23 no longer benefits much from the difference between 128 and 64 cores, it could be assumed that we will encounter this performance in the standard desktop in 5-8 years, ie 2026-2029. But who knows – now that Intel is crashing into horses and AMD has no problem financing further development, even before.

If you are interested in the course of Cinebench R23 itself, move straight to 10:49:

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