AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Linux Performance

[NeoMorpheus]

Why is this new AMD CPU generation on Linux so much faster than the best Intel CPUs for gaming? We don't see this on Windows systems so this is a unique fact.

Considering how dirty Intel and M$ are and how they have screwed AMD in the past, i am willing to bet that money exchanged hands and AMD got shafted again.

[murlakatamenka]

I remember times when AMD wasn't competitive, i5 was $200 and i7 for $300.

Now AMD is back in the game (and there are M1/M2), but the price for AMD's i5 is $300. Competition benefits the customers, right? Right?!..

Well, at the same time if you're not chasing the very newest things, you can get something very cost efficient like Ryzen 5600 for ~150$ from AliExpress. They cost even $135-140 there now. Basically 5600x, and what was its MSRP at launch? $300 it was...

No wonder it's Groups top selling CPU on US Amazon rn:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/pc/229189/

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New tech surely got pricier over recent years. Its performance is impressive though.

[oiaohm]

No it's not. 7600x slower than 12600K

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Review - Affordable Zen 4 for Gaming - Game Tests 1080p / RTX 3080 | TechPowerUp

This is average from 12 games. It's faster in some games, but if you tests many in average it's slower than 12600k.

I would take those benchmarks with a grain of salt. The fact the overclock there resulted in lower performance is lack of thermal headroom. It appears from the different reviewer reported performances that we have either of 2 things or mix of both.

Yes the possible cause of what we are seeing here.
1) Ryzen 7000x series has a lot of silicon variation.
2) Choice of cooler makes a huge difference.

Yes the ones that show the 7600X as faster than 12600K at stock that do overclock 7600X the overclock is faster than the stock by a little bit. The ones that show 12600K is faster than the 7600X the overclock is slower than the 7600X stock. So there is something going on here.

There is a horrible issue caused by the new Ryzen 7000x series heat spreader being 2mm thicker than the prior generations that heat transfer is not as good.

The differences in results can be caused by both.

[Classical]

No it's not. 7600x slower than 12600K

I see most of the time that the 7600X is very close to the i9 12900k:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1338944/amd-ryzen-5-7600x-review-a-great-cpu-muted-by-am5s-high-costs.html

Like at 1080p, you’ll see similar trends in chip performance between the 7600X and the 12900K (including the same uneven variance between individual games), though the percentage differences widen.

[HEL88]

This review has results that we should take a closer look at. On Windows systems we see that the AMD 7600X is on average as fast as the i9 12900k for gaming. With Linux we see that the 7600X is significantly faster on average than the 12900k for gaming.

Why is this new AMD CPU generation on Linux so much faster than the best Intel CPUs for gaming? We don't see this on Windows systems so this is a unique fact.

No it's not. 7600x slower than 12600K

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Review - Affordable Zen 4 for Gaming - Game Tests 1080p / RTX 3080 | TechPowerUp

This is average from 12 games. It's faster in some games, but if you tests many in average it's slower than 12600k.

[jon3k]

It's faster than the 5600X, but it still loses too many tests to 12600k. It draws about the same power as 12600k, too, despite being built on a smaller node. 13600k will eat this for breakfast.

5600X was 17% faster than 12600K overall. "Losing too many tests" is a meaningless, arbitrary metric.

Bottom line, no surprise it is faster, it's a newer CPU. If the 13600K, an even newer CPU, is faster, I don't think it will be a surprise to anyone at this point. The question is how much power will Intel require to do it.

[milkylainen]

People keep forgetting that a CPU is so much more than the cores.
I mean. SerDes for PCIe 5.0 and such are going to SUCK POWER like there is no tomorrow.
I/O is going to be a real pain in the power budget.

Probably future optimization to layout and serdes DACs will yield less aggressive tuning and a cut on the I/O power budget.

[bug77]

It's faster than the 5600X, but it still loses too many tests to 12600k. It draws about the same power as 12600k, too, despite being built on a smaller node. 13600k will eat this for breakfast.

[Anux]

The power consumption of the 5700g was pretty impressive, I wonder if the 7000 series APUs will be as efficient? Hopefully by the time the 7xxxg series come out, the b550 and even a520 motherboards and DDR5 will have come down a bit.

5700G are notebook chips that are to inefficient for mobile use and get repurposed for desktop.
There will definitely be APUs in the future but if they have enough bad SKUs to put out desktop parts remains to be seen. The last one was 6000 series and it never made it to desktops. A 7700G3D would be a no brainer. Phoenix Point is the code name if you want to go on a research.

[cjcox]

My biggest frustration with AMD is on the used side. There's just so much recent gen Intel on the market so the prices tend to be much much lower. I was hoping that this would change. With that said, it's likely due to the longevity of the platform (talking AM4 or less). Intel, more, more options, much much lower prices. Again, maybe this will change in the future. I think we're already seeing this a bit with regards to AMD GPUs, but again, apple vs orange (red/green vs red/blue).

But, if you have to have "new" all the time, AMD does make for a very compelling platform vs. Intel (and vs Nvidia).