The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X Review: Zen 5 is Alive
by Gavin Bonshor on August 7, 2024 9:00 AM ESTCPU Benchmark Performance: AI Performance
As technology progresses at a breakneck pace, so do the demands of modern applications and workloads. As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) become increasingly intertwined with our daily computational tasks, it's paramount that our reviews evolve in tandem. To this end, we have AI and inferencing benchmarks in our CPU test suite for 2024.
Traditionally, CPU benchmarks have focused on various tasks, from arithmetic calculations to multimedia processing. However, with AI algorithms now driving features within some applications, from voice recognition to real-time data analysis, it's crucial to understand how modern processors handle these specific workloads. This is where our newly incorporated benchmarks come into play.
Given makers such as AMD with Ryzen AI, with multiple iterations including the XDNA 2 NPU within the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, and Intel with their Meteor Lake mobile platform featuring AI-driven hardware, aptly named Intel AI Boost within the silicon, AI, and inferencing benchmarks will be a mainstay in our test suite as we go further into 2024 and beyond. While there's currently no defacto benchmark for AI at the moment, we've compiled a couple of different benchmarks to gauge performance.
It's also worth noting that desktop processors don't really utilize NPUs, so all of the grunt in the below benchmarks is done using the CPU.
As we've previously stated, all of the AI benchmarks and models used use the CPU to do all the grunt work. In our DeepSpeech Mozilla-based speech-to-text engine, Zen 5 doesn't really do much against the competition, Although in TensorFlow with both GoogLeNet and VGG-16 models, Zen 5 is very competitive.
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Golgatha777 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Thanks for the review. I personally would have liked to see a 7800X3D in the benchmarks. Also, I would have omitted 720p and replaced it with 1440p gaming benchmarks. 1080p is perfectly fine for a synthetic benchmark to see which CPU is faster overall and a lot of gamers run 1440p.kpb321 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Agreed. The 7800X3D should be very close in price to the 9700X so having both in the gaming charts would be pretty nice. Offhand I assume it will be a mix. For standard game the 9700x should have a small lead due to the Zen 5 improvements. For things that are cache sensitive that will make the 7800X3D more competitive or even faster.heffeque - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
It doesn't make sense.The 7800X3D should be compared to the 9800X3D (which will come in a few months).
Trackster11230 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
It makes sense to compare the 7800X3D to the 9700X due to price, and I'm sure it'll be compared against the 9800X3D when it comes out too. These aren't mutually exclusive.Klober - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Seriously? Did none of you pay attention to the charts? There's clearly a 7800X3D in all but 2 of the charts on this page alone. I could maybe see an argument made for the 7900X3D (coincidentally, the CPU I have which I why I noted it's missing) but not the 7800X3D.Trackster11230 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Yes, I see it in the charts, hence my comment about it making sense being in here. It's similar in price to the 9700X, so it makes sense to compare from that metric. What's so difficult to understand?I could make an argument too that an 8c/16t CPU makes more sense to compare to than the 7900X3D with 12c/24t.
boozed - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
Seems odd that the gaming CPU is missing from the gaming resultsboozed - Thursday, August 8, 2024 - link
"Note: We are currently benchmarking more processors as we speak"I should read harder
Oxford Guy - Friday, August 16, 2024 - link
They said that they would re-test the Intel chips over the weekend in May. Did those updated benchmarks ever get done and published?frshi - Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - link
The table says Quad Channel DDR support, I don't think that's true. It's 4 slots but it's dual channel, isn't it?