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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schujj07 - Thursday, August 8, 2024 - link
Starting with 13th Gen Intel had a core and total thread count advantage on type vs type (Ryzen 5 vs i5 for example). However, when you compare Ryzen vs Core on thread counts the Ryzens tend to be faster for the same number of threads.Targon - Friday, August 9, 2024 - link
You are only partially correct. Intel has those "efficiency" cores, and includes those in the core count. E-cores are very low performance, so 16 Zen4 cores vs. 8 P-cores+16 E-cores is the comparison you are looking at, and at this point, a 7950X vs the 14900k makes for an interesting comparison in Cinebench with a generally stock configuration(turn on XMP/EXPO memory).meacupla - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
is there an idle power draw graph?Slash3 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
4K gaming page still has a few rather unnecessary text padding entries at the bottom, FYI. :)isthisavailable - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
The PS5/ Xbox series made 8c/16t the new minimum when they launched in 2020. It's 2024 and the new gen CPU is still launching with a 6c/12t part as the "baseline". No core count increase since the original Zen launch. It's high time AMD moves to 8/16 for the Ryzen 5Khanan - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Why, so 99.9% of games can ignore the 2 extra cores? Aside, the 6 core is a harvested 8 core product, it will always exist.You cry for more cores but don’t understand the way games work today and where the development goes. Game devs don’t like high core counts and rarely optimise for more than 4-6 cores.
erotomania - Thursday, August 8, 2024 - link
Actually original Zen launched (or rather, the lineup was completed shortly after launch) with 4C/4T and 4C/8T and 6C/6T. Even the original Ryzen 5 was three months after Ryzen 7 - I know because I waited for a 1600.schujj07 - Friday, August 9, 2024 - link
Zen 1 topped out at 8c/16t and you could get 16c/32t if you got a Threadripper. Since Zen 2, the top CPU is 16c/32t before going to Threadripper. Really there aren't many consumer applications that use more threads than that. Now once Zen 6 comes we might see higher core counts per CCD as that will be on a smaller process node.haukionkannel - Saturday, August 10, 2024 - link
Not really… 8 core still is not much faster than 8 core and 10 core would be same speed as 8 core in ost normal use cases…When the core count becomes the bottleneck, then i agree that more cores would be nice to have. But we are not in there…
shabby - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
I think amd screwed up with the 9700x, this should have been a 105w processor, not a 65w one. The 7700 ran at 65w and had similar clocks, while the 7700x ran at 105w with much higher base clocks.