AMD's new Ryzen 5 9600X wants to be the next go-to budget gaming CPU, but it doesn't manage to beat the old guard.
AMD is back with a new budget CPU that’s aiming to make it among the best gaming processors. The Ryzen 5 9600X debuts the Zen 5 architecture, and it comes with some performance improvements over last-gen’s Ryzen 5 7600X . As you can read in our Ryzen 5 9600X review, however, it’s not a slam dunk for AMD ’s latest.
Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming Check your inbox! Privacy Policy The difference between these two chips comes down to architecture. The Ryzen 5 9600X uses the Zen 5 architecture, which has a few key advantages over the Zen 4 architecture featured on the Ryzen 5 7600X. For Zen 5, AMD had a big focus on single core performance, and that shows up clearly in my performance testing.
The Ryzen 5 9600X is holding at $279, and it should stay there for several months. It will drop in price as time goes on, especially if Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs are competitive. But at least until the end of the year, the Ryzen 5 9600X will run you about $279. Productivity performance The big boost with the Ryzen 5 9600X is single core performance, and you can see that in action immediately in Y-Cruncher. This app, which calculates a specified number of digits of Pi — I chose 500 million — gets about as close as you can to the “raw” performance of a CPU. It’s all math here.
Similarly, in Blender, I saw an improvement of around 7% with the Ryzen 5 9600X over its last-gen counterpart. 3DMark Time Spy sets the stage here, with the Ryzen 5 9600X offering an uninspiring 6% lead over the Ryzen 5 7600X. It’s important to note that this is the CPU score from 3DMark Time Spy, not the overall score. That should show the largest difference between these two CPUs, and even then, there’s only a minor increase.
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