The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X Review: Zen 5 is Alive
by Gavin Bonshor on August 7, 2024 9:00 AM ESTProductivity and Web
Our previous sets of ‘office’ benchmarks have often been a mix of science and synthetics, so this time, we wanted to keep our office and productivity section purely based on real-world performance. The biggest update to our Office-focused tests for 2024 and beyond includes UL's Procyon software, which is the successor to PCMark. Procyon benchmarks office performance using Microsoft Office applications, and we've thrown in some timed compiler benchmarks such as Node.js, Linux, and PHP.
In the productivity section of our CPU suite for 2024, all of the desktop chips tested perform similarly in the UL Procyon office-based benchmarks, which use Microsoft Office and is an everyday piece of software most people will use, especially in a work or study-based setting. The benchmark where the Zen 5 chips seem to make an impact is in the Jetstream 2.1 web-based benchmark, which puts both the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X ahead of the competition comfortably.
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Khanan - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
M1 is irrelevant as Apple is more or less completely irrelevant to PCs and 100% to servers. And I didn’t talk to you to begin with.schujj07 - Thursday, August 8, 2024 - link
You're right Zen 5 is no where near the M1 in IPC it is actually near M3.mode_13h - Thursday, August 8, 2024 - link
> It performs slightly better than Zen4 or the same in almost everything,> except where AVX512 is used
SPECint Rate-1: a 13.2% improvement is certainly respectable.
If you look at the sub-scores, 548.exchange2_r improves by a whopping 23.2%! I'm quite pleased that gcc improved by 17%.
Given that they didn't increase core count, hardly changed cache sizes, made a fairly small change in the process node, and actually reduced energy consumption (not to mention launch prices), I think it's pretty impressive!
Targon - Friday, August 9, 2024 - link
You and so many other people have missed that because Zen5 has lower TDP ratings by default, and PBO is also disabled by default, you are looking at higher efficiency as the "out of box" experience, but with very little performance increase. If you turn on PBO and also use the additional things, such as with faster RAM, Zen5 starts to show better performance.The Ryzen 9 9950X is the only Zen5 chip that will come with the 170W TDP seen with Zen4, and there will probably be a larger jump in performance as a result. Just wait until next week to see if I am correct.
Khanan - Saturday, August 10, 2024 - link
Meh, I bet you’re referring to games because otherwise your comment makes 0 sense. And with games we need a minimum of 20 games to see the difference and not 5 or less like in here, so you basically got no point at all.Bulat Ziganshin - Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - link
While on the paper 7950x had 170W TDP, really it was closer to 230W, so Zen5 reduced real TDP for the entire linedrajitshnew - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
I really appreciate the limit to the power draw on Intel chips. I use systems for office work, and it is frankly ridiculous to compare a 90W CPU to a 400 W one.Apart from the power draw which is limited by the battery backup, the super high prices of the 400W desktop CPU ecosystem just does not make sense.
If I need that performance I would invest in a HEDT system.
Jorgp2 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
I don't think you understand what power is.You're comparing the base power of one CPU, to the turbo power of another CPU.
Khanan - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
No, he’s comparing turbo to turbo power, what’s your problem? The 9700X is ~90W peak, Intels was 400W peak, 290W with the new settings.Bulat Ziganshin - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
IMHO the reason why 8-core AMD cpus are compared with top Intel CPUs is that Zen5 are newer and better CPUs. So we want to see whether mid-level Zen5 can outperform top Alderlakes, despite much lower price. It's the standard practice - compare new mid-level cpus with prev-gen tops to see how far we gone.