https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-5-9600x/ https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9700x/
My favourite is still the 7900, all that performance for 65W(90W)!!! The 9900 for the same will be fantastic! They're far more interesting than all the other sku's as they're so much lower power!
Smells like AMD has done enough for the inevitable 9800X3D to embarrass the inevitable 15900K in gaming... But the 9700x and 9600x feel like a big bag of meh.
Your wish, yadda yadda yadda https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x Also - Oops! https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/ryzen-9000-delid-leads-to-first-zen-5-death
In reality still no real reason to upgrade for me my 5 series is still fine for the games side but I'm itching to play with something new, can I justify it on power reduction alone, I'm sure I could man maths it somehow
I'm still on a 3600x so this would no doubt be a signifcant improvement. However my machine still does everything I need it to do (play 20mins of games a week if I'm lucky!) so it would very much be man maths to upgrade! Maybe I'll convince myself when the next gen of GPUs comes out and I'll do a full new system build.
As sad as it sounds, I’m slightly more interested in seeing what the X870 mITX boards are like rather than the CPUs. Having USB4 is a half-decent reason to upgrade in my mind.
That’s basically what I’m getting from it TBH. Marginal performance improvement but a big drop in power usage. As a recent SFF convert, this pleases me. Unless I swap or modify my motherboard to fit a better cooler, I can’t really go much higher than my i5 12400 in my current case.
Very, very tempted to upgrade to the new 16C32T version - twice the core count of my 2700X, and they're faster to boot. It'd mean a new motherboard and 64GB of new memory, tho'. Maybe in a year or two. (Which is what I say every other generation...)
This is timely as I'm planning an upgrade in the very near future. Although based on those initial scores it's not offering much in the way of value.
So having read a myriad of reviews Zen 5 is Epyc, not epic. Should you buy the 9700x? Gamer? No On a budget? Nope, 7700[x] is cheaper Care about power consumption? Also nope [buy the 7700 non-x, same power consumption, basically same gaming perf] Video editing/Content creation? Probably not, buy zen 4 or wait for the higher core parts. doing anything requiring AVX-512? *that's* where Zen 5 is actually worth it...
