Show Your Support: Did you know that you can get Phoronix Premium for under $4 per month? Try it today to view our site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and more while the proceeds allow us to write more Linux hardware reviews. At the very least, please disable your ad-blocker.

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X / Ryzen 9 7950X Benchmarks Show Impressive Zen 4 Linux Performance

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900 series works out very well for multi-threaded video encoders like with Intel's own SVT-AV1.

Testing a variety of other video encoders for AV1, VP9, and H.265/HEVC all had the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X now leading the race of these desktop x86_64 CPUs.