AMD is finally introducing its Zen 5 architecture with the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X, and the improvements are huge.
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X MSRP $280.00 Score Details “ AMD 's Zen 5 generation is off to an odd start, but it already shows a lot of promise.” Pros Cons CPUs are in a weird spot, and it’s hard to ignore that fact. AMD pulled an unprecedented move by delaying the launch of these new Zen 5 chips, and Intel’s widely reported instability issue still doesn’t have a solution.
As I dig into my performance results, you’ll see that AMD achieved its design goals. This is a new foundation, however, and not the final form of where AMD will end up in a couple of generations. Performance overall feels lopsided, with some workloads showing middling performance and others showing earth-shattering gains.
Productivity performance There’s no better place to start a CPU review than Cinebench R23, which immediately shows AMD’s improvements in action. Short of the Core i9-13900K and Core i9-14900K, AMD’s new chips are topping the single-core charts, and not by an insignificant margin. It’s a massive jump, and one that’s all the more impressive considering these are the weakest two of AMD’s current Zen 5 lineup.
These CPUs are doing exactly what they should, but there are also some lopsided numbers — for better and worse. You can see the worse in action in Blender and 7-Zip. The Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X are barely moving the needle in these tests, and in the case of 7-Zip, the Ryzen 5 9600X was actually a bit slower than the last-gen Ryzen 5 7600X .
If you take a 10,000-foot view of these chips, AMD is providing better performance in games. You can see that in the CPU score of 3DMark Time Spy. The Ryzen 7 9700X manages to outpace the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, while the Ryzen 5 9600X provides a disappointing but understandable uplift of 5% over the previous generation. As usual, real games tell a slightly different story.
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