Power Efficiency Is So Zen! The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X It’s actually fairly easy to sum up the two Zen 5 chips which were reviewed today with two
One Thread Good, Two Thread Bad … Well, Not As Good
It’s actually fairly easy to sum up the two Zen 5 chips which were reviewed today with two data points, though Josh will certainly expound in far more detail on the podcast. The Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X are far more power efficient than Zen 4 and amazingly more efficient than Intel’s current chips. They also show significant improvements in single threaded performance; we are seeing double digit percentage increases, while multi-threaded performance only slightly improves. That pretty much describes what you will see in general performance and if you are solely interested in gaming performance then the Ryzen 7 7800X3D remains your best friend until we see a Zen 5 equivalent.
