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

First up were the web browser benchmarks given how frequent the likes of Firefox and Chrome are used on modern desktops... Right from the start while largely single-threaded tasks, the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X delivered great generational uplift with Speedometer 3.0 and widened the lead over the Raptor Lake (Refresh) processors. The new Zen 5 processors delivered around 15% better performance than the Zen 4 desktop processors.

Not only were these processors delivering measurable generational uplift over the Ryzen 5 7600X and Ryzen 7 7700X parts, but they were doing so while consuming less power than them too.

With the strong single-threaded performance of Zen 5, these new processors were also now able to outperform the Core i5 14600K and Core i9 14900K within some JavaScript benchmarks that previously favored the Intel CPUs.

In the JetStream 2.0 benchmark the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X both delivered significant generational uplift while also now outperforming the Intel Core 14th Gen processors in web browser benchmarks on both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

All the while these Zen 5 CPUs were consuming less power than the prior generation Zen 4 7600X/7700X processors.

For WebAssembly workloads too the Zen 5 CPUs were showing great generational gains and able to unset Intel Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs.

The Ryzen 9000 series processors were running solid in web browser benchmarks for single-threaded tasks typically favoring the Intel cores, but let's move ahead and push these CPUs harder.