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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X / Ryzen 9 7950X Benchmarks Show Impressive Zen 4 Linux Performance
Multi-threaded chess workloads like with asmFish were strongly favoring AMD's new Zen 4 processors.
Leela Chess Zero is the chess engine employing neural networks and capable of making use of AVX-512. There is a significant uplift to find with the new Ryzen 9 7900 series while still Intel's Alder lake ended up leading for these chess benchmarks.
But for simpler chess engines not employing neural networks, the Ryzen 9 7900 series was stomping the competition and older AMD processors.
Zstd compression also now is an area where Alder Lake was faster than Zen 3 but now Zen 4 has jumped ahead.
