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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance Review (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 3 months ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux workloads from developers to creators to AVX-512 embracing AI and HPC workloads. Today the review embargo lifts on the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X and as expected given the prior 6-core/8-core tests: these new chips are wild! The Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X are fabulous processors for those engaging in heavy real-world Linux workloads with excellent performance uplift and stunning power efficiency.

I have been very much enjoying my time testing out AMD's Zen 5 wares from the Ryzen AI 300 series to the Ryzen 9000 series. The Ryzen 5 9600X / Ryzen 7 9700X were great for whetting my appetite while awaiting the Ryzen 9 9900 series. I had been very much enjoying them to the extent I was rather surprised myself last week when hearing of some reviewers not finding much excitement out of these new Zen 5 processors but typically those just looking at Windows gaming performance or running only a few canned/synthetic benchmarks. Following the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Linux testing when the Ryzen 9 9900X/9950X arrived, they were put immediately to my gauntlet of hundreds of Linux benchmarks and indeed living up to expectations.

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[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 58 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Something is wrong with the Windows scheduler and these new chips. The Linux results aren't revolutionary, but they're about what you'd expect from what AMD marketed in terms of IPC uplift.

More reviewers should benchmark hardware on multiple operating systems.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The new gamer's nexus review outlines some pretty specific prerequisites that AMD sent to fix performance on Windows, and AMD didn't communicate those until they'd had the review units for days.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Yes, but even then the Phoronix results seem to suggest a larger gap in performance.

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