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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Golgatha777 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Thanks for the review. I personally would have liked to see a 7800X3D in the benchmarks. Also, I would have omitted 720p and replaced it with 1440p gaming benchmarks. 1080p is perfectly fine for a synthetic benchmark to see which CPU is faster overall and a lot of gamers run 1440p.kpb321 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Agreed. The 7800X3D should be very close in price to the 9700X so having both in the gaming charts would be pretty nice. Offhand I assume it will be a mix. For standard game the 9700x should have a small lead due to the Zen 5 improvements. For things that are cache sensitive that will make the 7800X3D more competitive or even faster.heffeque - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
It doesn't make sense.The 7800X3D should be compared to the 9800X3D (which will come in a few months).
Trackster11230 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
It makes sense to compare the 7800X3D to the 9700X due to price, and I'm sure it'll be compared against the 9800X3D when it comes out too. These aren't mutually exclusive.Klober - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Seriously? Did none of you pay attention to the charts? There's clearly a 7800X3D in all but 2 of the charts on this page alone. I could maybe see an argument made for the 7900X3D (coincidentally, the CPU I have which I why I noted it's missing) but not the 7800X3D.Trackster11230 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Yes, I see it in the charts, hence my comment about it making sense being in here. It's similar in price to the 9700X, so it makes sense to compare from that metric. What's so difficult to understand?I could make an argument too that an 8c/16t CPU makes more sense to compare to than the 7900X3D with 12c/24t.
boozed - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Seems odd that the gaming CPU is missing from the gaming resultsboozed - Thursday, August 8, 2024 - link
"Note: We are currently benchmarking more processors as we speak"I should read harder
Oxford Guy - Friday, August 16, 2024 - link
They said that they would re-test the Intel chips over the weekend in May. Did those updated benchmarks ever get done and published?frshi - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
The table says Quad Channel DDR support, I don't think that's true. It's 4 slots but it's dual channel, isn't it?