Zen 6 shows up to 24% higher per-clock performance than Zen 5 in Geekbench

Geekbench results for AMD's flagship 256-core EPYC 9996 on Zen 6C show 2847 single-core points at a 4.12 GHz boost clock. Compared with a 5.5 GHz Zen 5 chip, that works out to up to 24% higher per-clock performance, with an average uplift of about 16.5%.

• EPYC 9996: 256 cores, 512 threads, 1 GB L3 and 256 MB L2, 600W TDP
• Single-core score of 2847 at a 4.12 GHz boost clock
• Up to 24% higher IPC than Zen 5, 16.5% on average
• Chip uses dense Zen 6C cores; desktop Zen 6 could be faster still