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 6 of 16. 99 Comments.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/ao/real_time. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/ao/real_time. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/ao/real_time. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

In some software like OSPRay the performance of the Ryzen 5 9600X can even outpace the Core i5 14600K thanks to AVX-512 with Zen 5.

OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/pathtracer/real_time. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/pathtracer/real_time. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/pathtracer/real_time. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Run: RT.ldr_alb_nrm.3840x2160, Device: CPU-Only. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Run: RT.ldr_alb_nrm.3840x2160, Device: CPU-Only. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Run: RT.ldr_alb_nrm.3840x2160, Device: CPU-Only. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

I'll have a dedicated Zen 5 AVX-512 article out soon, but long story short the AVX-512 performance is looking even better with Zen 5 compared to its initial double pumped implementation with Zen 4.

Coremark benchmark with settings of CoreMark Size 666, Iterations Per Second. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
Coremark benchmark with settings of CoreMark Size 666, Iterations Per Second. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
Coremark benchmark with settings of CoreMark Size 666, Iterations Per Second. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

For those on the likes of an aging Ryzen 9 5950X desktop, in some areas the Ryzen 7 9700X performance can match it while delivering much greater power efficiency.

QuantLib benchmark with settings of Size: XXS. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
QuantLib benchmark with settings of Size: XXS. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
QuantLib benchmark with settings of Size: XXS. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.

In the case of the QuantLib quantitative finance software there wasn't much of a generational uplift for performance but the power efficiency was much better.

BRL-CAD benchmark with settings of VGR Performance Metric. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.
BRL-CAD benchmark with settings of VGR Performance Metric. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.
BRL-CAD benchmark with settings of VGR Performance Metric. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.

Overall though from the wide variety of workloads being tested, the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X deliver very nice performance and power efficiency improvements over Zen 4.

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