AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

[W1zzard]

The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X excels in energy efficiency and single-threaded performance. It offers great FPS for gamers and solid application performance. Our review confirms: at just $280, the 9600X is a compelling option against the pricier 7800X3D.

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[W1zzard]

Please do note that there's a lot of general discussion around Zen 5 going on in the comments for the 9700X review: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-ryzen-7-9700x.325081/

 

[W1zzard]

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[SL2]

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Cinebench looks swapped for 7600.

 

[kapone32]

Excellent review. Confirms for me my next chip will be the 9900X3D. I love the power draw on the 6 core variants. I theorize they can maintain longer boost clocks with less heat generated from 2 less cores in the CCD.

 

[W1zzard]

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Cinebench looks swapped for 7600.

fixed, thanks!

 

[Quicks]

Disappointing to say the least. You can just as well buy the older cheaper series or just try and get 78003D on the cheap and call it a day for the next couple of years.

 

[Rabit]

As R5 7600 user nothing to be exited here skipping this gen

 

[Vincero]

I wouldn't say it's disappointing - progress is progress even when it's minimal.

This release reminds me a lot of when Intel released Haswell after Ivy Bridge - small IPC improvement and really a product where the main focus was efficiency - almost a mobile first approach, with baked in efficiency gains better than the move to a new process alone delivered.

I forsee a lot of people having a similar opinion and complaining how little an improvement it is...
And to be fair they are right to do so - AMD were pushing a Zen5 uplift that will not be that apparent for some depending on what apps they use - and non-existant if using certain games.

On the plus side, anyone who has bought a 7600/x will have little to be upset about - the new equivalent product is not something that makes the older 7600 seem immediately obsolete. If the price of the 7600 CPUs drops significantly below the 9600 I can see a lot of people getting the 7600 quite happily as they are not really missing out on anything except for the weird Zen4 / 1st gen AM5 thermal behaviour.

 

[Gucky]

Only if you take the release price. I can get a 7700 without cooler for sub 200$...

 

[cerulliber]

my Ryzen 5 also have 32mb cache and 4ghz. it's bang/buck at 80$ 89% in 4k, ryzen 3600. still seeking reasons to justify upgrade, but can't see reasons past 5800x3d. anyway, zen5 isn't as bad as looking, still have plenty of improovements vs zen4 and avx512 is a neat part, while Incels removed it on 12th. time to unsubscribe from those youtubers claiming 40% IPC.

 

[mahoney]

I really don't get it? What's with these titles? Best under $300 gaming cpu, Magic of Zen5?
What's going on? Like these chips are so meh that I really hope these titles are you being sarcastic.

 

[codex5600x]

Disappointed

 

[cellar door]

TLDR - you can and should get a vanilla 7600/board combo for the same money.

 

[Gameslove]

Ryzen 7 5800X3D stay as king here.

 

[Dyatlov A]

And it is still not better than an overclocked Intel 12400

 

[W1zzard]

And it is still not better than an overclocked Intel 12400

ah that reminds me .. maybe you're running one .. I had that discussion the other day.. does BCLK overclocking still work on Alder Lake with latest BIOS? I vaguely remember Intel nerfed it through microcode updates?

 

[randomTPUreader]

Pretty disappointed to see the 5700X3D wasn't represented at all in many of the results and the 5800X3D was also missing from many of them.
For anyone that's still on AM4 the 5700X3D is an awesome value, especially since it can be occasionally had for less than $200! I upgraded from a 3600 to the 5700X3D a couple of months ago and the difference in games has been incredible!
So far my opinions on the 9000 series chips has been a solid "meh." Good power efficiency but not a compelling reason to upgrade over most 5000 or 7000 series CPUs. Will have to see how the X3D versions fare when they're released.

 

[Godrilla]

Disappointing to say the least. You can just as well buy the older cheaper series or just try and get 78003D on the cheap and call it a day for the next couple of years.

Amazon has the 7800X3D for $353 currently fyi.

 

[damric]

ah that reminds me .. maybe you're running one .. I had that discussion the other day.. does BCLK overclocking still work on Alder Lake with latest BIOS? I vaguely remember Intel nerfed it through microcode updates?

Needs old BIOS, so kind of same situation with the non-k Skylake where you had to hopefully find a board that hasn't been updated. That said, there's the PG Riptide for cheap if you want to do that.

Back on topic of these new Zen 5, yeah this early pricing sucks, but we know it will drop in a few months. Not at all worth getting now except for specific circumstances. Certainly not interesting enough to move me from AM4. Kudos for conservative power management though.

 

[cellar door]

@W1zzard
Are you using y-cruncher 0.7.1 or 0.8.5 - I'm asking because my 7600x with 7800cl36 gets 90sec and 75 sec respectively.

Both version are included in Benchmate 12 for this reason my guess. I couldn't see a screenshot showing the version - Thanks!

 

[RaceT3ch]

Yea I'm on Ryzen 5000
This doesn't look that appealing unless the Ryzen 7000 get some crazy price drops or if the Ryzen 9000 OC's like they did in the rumours (which doesn't look like it)
I'd say buy the 7000 series instead.
Kinda disappointing, not even 5% performance increase

 

[Zareek]

Less disappointing than the 9700x, but still disappointing. AMD really needs to be more careful about over-hyping. If they didn't hype this generation so much, it would have been less surprising that it is so underwhelming. They also NEED to do something to reel in that idle power, it's just insane. Considering most people spend 80%+ of their time at idle, you can't even make the case that it's more efficient. The launch prices are too high as well. I suspect the pricing will settle out in a month or so. I doubt they'll sell like hotcakes.

 

[Rabit]

Yea I'm on Ryzen 5000
This doesn't look that appealing unless the Ryzen 7000 get some crazy price drops or if the Ryzen 9000 OC's like they did in the rumours (which doesn't look like it)
I'd say buy the 7000 series instead.
Kinda disappointing, not even 5% performance increase

My transition from R5 5600 to R5 7600 32GB cost me extra $10 a year ago + 2-3hours bending back pins in LGA socket under microscope buying broken AM5 board I also get my old AM4 board as broken needed fix broken trace and few missing smd

 

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard
Are you using y-cruncher 0.7.1 or 0.8.5 - I'm asking because my 7600x with 7800cl36 gets 90sec and 75 sec respectively.

Both version are included in Benchmate 12 for this reason my guess. I couldn't see a screenshot showing the version - Thanks!

0.8.4.9538

Not using Benchmate