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 5 of 16. 99 Comments.
Stargate Digital Audio Workstation benchmark with settings of Sample Rate: 44100, Buffer Size: 512. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
Stargate Digital Audio Workstation benchmark with settings of Sample Rate: 44100, Buffer Size: 512. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
Stargate Digital Audio Workstation benchmark with settings of Sample Rate: 44100, Buffer Size: 512. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

In some workloads like the Stargate DAW software there wasn't too much generational performance uplift but in cases like that these Zen 5 processors were consuming measurably less power than the Ryzen 7000 series.

Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Junkshop, Compute: CPU-Only. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Junkshop, Compute: CPU-Only. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

In creator software like Blender there were nice speed-ups and power savings compared to the prior generation parts.

LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: DLSC, Acceleration: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: DLSC, Acceleration: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: DLSC, Acceleration: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism, Acceleration: CPU. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism, Acceleration: CPU. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism, Acceleration: CPU. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.

With other renderers like LuxCore, the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X continued to impress with its generational uplift and power efficiency improvements.

Chaos Group V-RAY benchmark with settings of Mode: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
Chaos Group V-RAY benchmark with settings of Mode: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
Chaos Group V-RAY benchmark with settings of Mode: CPU. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

The proprietary V-RAY renderer software also showed off great gains and power efficiency of these initial Ryzen 9000 series processors.

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