AMD’s next-gen 10-core ‘Medusa Point’ APU shows up on Geekbench again, with its best score yet — leaked SKU outpaces every other x86 mobile chip in the single-core test

AMD is expected to refresh both its desktop and mobile lineups with Zen 6 next year. Ryzen AI 500 series, codenamed Medusa Point, will be the company’s next-gen mobile family and we’ve already seen a 10-core part leak from it a couple of times. Now, that same SKU is back with another Geekbench listing, this time posting its best results that put it ahead of any mobile chip currently made by Intel or AMD (in one way).

Medusa Point 10-core SKU listed on Geekbench — (Image credit: Future)

AMD’s upcoming chip ended up scoring 3,329 points in the single-core test and 16,555 points in the multi-core test. The Geekbench page once again shows the platform name as “AMD Plum-MDS1,” which we’ve known to be associated with Medusa Point for a while now. The SKU is listed as “AMD Eng Sample 100-000001713-33_N,” which is identical to how we saw in the last leak, basically confirming we’re looking at the same chip.

The single-core result is almost 5% higher while the multi-core score is about 9.7% higher compared to the numbers we saw previously. In fact, the single-core result is better than any mobile part on Geekbench apart from the new Snapdragon X2 Elite lineup. Compared to desktop equivalents, it’s very close to the 9900X and the 9800X3D — two absolute desktop powerhouses carrying 12 cores and 8 cores, respectively.

Latest Videos From

Swipe to scroll horizontally

SKU	Config	Single-Core Score	Difference
Qualcomm X2 Elite X2E-90-100	Mobile, 18C	3,573	100%
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X	Desktop, 12C	3,333	93%
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D	Desktop, 8C	3,333	93%
AMD Ryzen 9 565?	Mobile, 10C	3,329	93%
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X	Desktop, 6C	3,318	93%
Intel Core i9-14900KS	Desktop, 24C	3,226	90%
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K	Desktop, 24C	3,195	89%
AMD Ryzen 9 565? (Previous)	Mobile, 10C	3,174	89%

The multi-core score puts this 10-core SKU right alongside the Ryzen AI Max+ 390, which is just a tier below the top-end AI Max+ 395 from Strix Halo. Since this is a 10-core part, we can infer it’s the Ryzen AI 9 565 because the Ryzen AI 9 365 (from Strix Point) and Ryzen AI 9 465 (from Gorgon Point) share the same configs. The Ryzen AI 9 365 has an average score of 12,410, so Medusa Point’s offering is 33% faster in this regard.

Swipe to scroll horizontally

SKU	Config	Multi-Core Score	Difference
Qualcomm X2 Elite X2E-90-100	Mobile, 18C	18,026	78%
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D	Desktop, 16C	22,169	96%
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X	Desktop, 12C	19,696	86%
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D	Desktop, 8C	18,317	80%
AMD Ryzen 9 565?	Mobile, 10C	16,555	72%
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X	Desktop, 6C	14,742	64%
Intel Core i9-14900KS	Desktop, 24C	23,008	100%
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K	Desktop, 24C	22,472	98%
AMD Ryzen 9 565? (Previous)	Mobile, 10C	15,092	66%

The Geekbench listing also reports the correct clock speeds this time — 2.0 GHz is still lasted as the base frequency, but the boost frequency is marked at 5.37 GHz, which makes a lot more sense. Moreover, the listing shows 10MB of L2 cache and 32MB of L3 cache while the Ryzen AI 9 465 had a combined cache tally of 34MB.

Overall, this benchmark is an incredibly promising showing for Medusa Point. The Red Team’s next-gen mobile lineup seems to benefit heavily from an architectural jump thanks to the Zen 6 silicon. Keep in mind that this is the company’s mainstream mobile offering that’s supposed to compete with Intel’s Panther Lake, while Nova Lake mobile and AMD’s own Gator Range (Ryzen 10000) will serve only as high-end CPUs.