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

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 7 August 2024 at 09:00 AM EDT. Page 13 of 16. 99 Comments.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 16, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 16, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 16, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 64, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 64, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 64, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

Switching over to AI workloads, the TensorFlow performance on these Zen 5 desktop processors was great and with the AVX-512 improvements were able to compete and outperform the top-end Ryzen 7000 series and Intel 14th Gen Core competition.

PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 16, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 16, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 16, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.

For PyTorch too the uplift from Zen 4 to Zen 5 was very impressive.

OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Face Detection FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Face Detection FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Age Gender Recognition Retail 0013 FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Age Gender Recognition Retail 0013 FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Ryzen 5 9600X was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Person Detection FP16, Device: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Person Detection FP16, Device: CPU. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.

Intel's OpenVINO AI toolkit was also running incredibly well on the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X. I can't wait to see the results out of the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X.

OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Weld Porosity Detection FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Weld Porosity Detection FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Ryzen 5 9600X was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Vehicle Detection FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Vehicle Detection FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Handwritten English Recognition FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Handwritten English Recognition FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Ryzen 5 9600X was the fastest.

The Intel Core processors are performing particularly poor due to their lack of AVX-512.

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