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RedMagic has released its 12 Pro flagship phone outside China, marking an earlier global rollout than the company's usual practice. A ZDNET reviewer ran Geekbench 7 benchmarks comparing it to a Pixel 9 Pro and found the RedMagic device nearly doubled multi-core scores and edged out single-core performance, falling only slightly behind Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Max in single-core tests.
A leaked GeekBench 7 result for AMD's unreleased 256-core EPYC 9996, built on Zen 6c cores, was compared directly against a Ryzen 7 9700X (Zen 5) clocked at the same 4.1GHz by enthusiast 326powah. The EPYC 9996 packs 128MB L3 cache per 32-core CCD across eight CCDs for 1GB total L3, plus a 1024-bit memory bus offering roughly 1.64 TB/s of bandwidth, though the test focused on single-threaded performance where bandwidth isn't a major factor.
A pre-launch Geekbench 7 benchmark shared on X shows OpenAI's dots agent, powered by GPT-6 Astra, running on a nine-core slice of an AMD EPYC 9V74 virtual machine with roughly 9.73GB of memory. The leaked run scored 9,435 multi-core, higher than six post-launch runs found in Geekbench's public database ranging from 8,135 to 8,991. Dots launched Tuesday at OpenAI's DevDay for Pro and Business Premium users, giving each agent its own cloud computer, browser, and preloaded software including Blender, GIMP, and Python.
An early Geekbench 7 submission attributed to Apple's unreleased A20 Pro chip shows single-core and multi-core scores of 4,006 and 11,460, roughly 23% and 27% higher than the A19 Pro. The result reportedly tops single-thread scores from AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Intel's Core i9-14900KS by 26% and 32% respectively.