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Ryzen 5 9600X

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Review - The Best Sub-$300 Gaming CPU

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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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Review - KitGuru

KitGuru has travelled across the Atlantic to learn about AMD Zen 5 and the first CPU to hit the test

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Ryzen 7 9700X

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Review - The Magic of Zen 5

The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X boasts a robust eight-core design and exceptional single-threaded performance with great power efficiency. In our review we saw good gains with PBO overclocking and TDP increases. Unfortunately, the $360 price tag is steep, and there are several good alternatives available.

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Review: Zen 5 Arrives

Today we're taking our first look at AMD's new Zen 5 processors, starting with the Ryzen 7 9700X, their latest 8-core / 16-thread CPU designed to replace the 7700X.

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Group Test

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X und Ryzen 7 9700X im Test

Zen 5 debütiert im Desktop in Form des AMD Ryzen 5 9600X und Ryzen 7 9700X. Dabei gibt es im Test so einige Überraschungen.

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Ryzen 7 9700X und Ryzen 5 9600X im Test: So schnell ist Zen 5 [Update]

Update: Im PCGH-Test zum AMD Ryzen 7 9700X und Ryzen 5 9600X zeigt sich, ob Zen 5 die großen Leistungsversprechen von AMD einhalten kann.

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X review: playing it safe | Club386

The Zen 5-infused Ryzen 9000 Series is upon us. Club386 lets you know whether to spend your hard-earned money or not.

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X review: Zen 5 impresses, but 7800X3D still reigns for gaming

The Digital Foundry review of the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X from Will Judd. Is Ryzen 9000 a worthwhile evolution over Ryzen 7000's 7800X3D for gaming?

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The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X Review: Zen 5 is Alive

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Youtube Reviews

Wasted Opportunity: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X CPU Review & Benchmarks vs. 7800X3D, 7700X, & More

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Review - Zen 5 Sucks For Gaming!

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AMD 9700X and 9600X Benchmarks... OOF

Today we benchmark the new Ryzen 9600X and 9700X against the 7600X, 7700X, 13600k, 13700k, 14600k, 14700k to see who wins in the mid tier CPU battles! Sponso...

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Ultimate RYZEN 7 Showdown! 9700X vs 7800X3D vs. 7700X Benchmarks, Temps, Power

It's time for a Ryzen 7 battle featuring AMD's new 9700X to see which CPU is best for those migrating to the AM5 platform. Affordable Windows Keys! Use 25% c...

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AMD Ryzen 5 | 9600X and 9700X Review

The first two AMD Ryzen 5, 9000 Series CPU's are here and I have the Ryzen 5 9600X and the Ryzen 5 9700X all tested up and ready to share the performance wit...

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9600X + 9700X vs 7800X3D - What's Best For Gaming?

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Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X Review and Benchmarks

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From Ryzen 7 3800X to 9700X - 16 Games Tested

The Ryzen 7 9700X has a low price but does that lead to better performance (especially in gaming) versus the 7800X3D, 7700X and 14700K? And more importantly...

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700x CPU Review: Performance, Thermals & Power Analysis

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This is not good for AMD - Ryzen 7 9700X vs 7700X vs 7800X3D

This is really not looking very good for AMD. It's too expensive and there are cheaper AM5 chips out there with the similar performance.Chapters00:00 - Ryzen...

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Great Linux performance though especially at 65W:

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance Review - Phoronix

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(Their site might time out though).

Think I said this before, this is
Firstly a server design.
Secondly a server design.
And at least...
Thirdly a server design.

Never mind leapfrogging design teams, AMD are now big though that they should have competing design team. Never forget how the mobile team saved Intel's posterior back in the P4 days.

Guess this does explain the launch prices not being crazy!

But Linux probably already got Kernel updates months ago,and Windows is just being Windows.

Zen5 is a big change in the basic design with a doubled front end,native AVX512 performance,etc so I would expect most optimisations will be for the Zen1 to Zen4 lineage. Couple that with the seemingly rushed launch,with various bugs,etc - it's probably been released before it was ready. This would also explain why the 800 series motherboards are nowhere to be seen.

This happened with Zen1,so I am not surprised with the issues. AMD never seems to learn,although there are rumours the next Intel release is potentially decent - it might be AMD knows this and has rushed it out.

I do hope this isn't another Phenom moment.

Die size is supposed to have shrunk from 71.0mm² to 70.6mm². So basically the same.
TPU says:

So at most 6% more transistors. So impressive that they managed to gain as much FP and AVX512 as they did but the whole design says
AMD penny-pinching strikes again!
Looking at Zen4 dies shots (since this is the same size) I get things like this:

I am sure with some moving of a few bits, they could easily have squeezed 90mm² into each CCD. Or even 80mm².

Whereas a 80mm² or 90mm² part could have squeezed in more int resources, or more cache. And the die costs wouldn't have been that much more (at $15,000 per 4NP wafer, about an extra $6 per CCD).

Point being, penny-wise might have been pound-foolish if the penny-pinching ended up with a part which doesn't sell as well.

That is AMD for you,but at the same time they are quite capacity constrained and we are getting at best a half node shrink. It seems Nvidia and Intel buying up the extra capacity Apple does not use,is leading to them having to make some trade-offs.

But,then AMD should have priced this far cheaper - under £300 for the Ryzen 9 9700X.

However,the cynic in me,makes me wonder whether they think that because Intel has big issues, that they can sell everything they can make. This is the same company which released the RX7900XT at £900,because Nvidia attempted an RTX4080 12GB.

 

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The Ryzen 7 9700X costs more than a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and as much as a Ryzen 9 7900X3D!

They have copied Nvidia in jacking up the price of the new generation to sell the old generation without further discounts.

Gamersnexus also reported lots of issues,so my advice for anyone is just to wait until the new chipsets are out and AMD has pushed out some AGESA updates. I can understand with Zen1 which this was the case,but there is zero excuse for AMD to have rushed it out. No excuse to be a BETA tester at the prices they want to charge.

Makes me wonder,whether the new Intel CPUs being released will be better than expected.