According to the initial reviews, it appears that when 512-bit instructions are executed at the maximum rate, this increases the power consumption enough so tha

According to the initial reviews, it appears that when 512-bit instructions are executed at the maximum rate, this increases the power consumption enough so that the clock frequency drops to around 4 GHz for a 9950X So a 9950X can do 256 FMA + 256 FADD for FP64 or 512 FMA + 512 FADD for FP32, per clock cycle. Using FP32, because it can be compared with the GPUs, there are 1536 Flop per clock cycle, therefore about 6 FP32 Tflop/s @ 4 GHz for a 9950X (around 375 FP32 Gflop/s per core, but this number is irrelevant, because a single active core would go to a much higher clock frequency, probably over 5 GHz). For an application that uses only FMA, like matrix multiplication, the throughput would drop to around 4 FP32 Tflop/s or 2 FP64 Tflop/s. The values for the FP32 throughput are similar to those of the best integrated GPUs that exist at this time. Therefore doing graphics rendering on the CPU on a 9950X might be similarly fast to doing graphics rendering on the iGPU on the best mobile CPUs. Doing graphics rendering on a 9950X can still leverage the graphics and video specific blocks contained in the anemic GPU included in 9950X, whose only problem is that it has a very small number of compute shaders, but their functions can be augmented by the strong CPU.