Alright so I've actually bothered to read the Phoronix review in detail and errrr...past Michael's generally very simpy/obtusely positive yes man attitude to everything...this isn't impressive.
I was under the impression from some screenshots that Z5 really shone in productivity tasks. This is not the case.
9600X is somehow generally more power hungry than 9700X or at best has the same average wattage. Which of course indicates the 9700X is power starved.
There is a stellar performance in JS, Python, and interpreted languages, actually a superb one, as well as with some things like webservers, databases, memcached, redis...in several places, Zen 5 is trailblazing, but it's about 10% of the entire benchmark list. These are objectively monstrous for cloud, but for almost anything else, it's different tiers of meh with the occasional monstrous throughput. This isn't "Zen 2 but unequal" like I thought, it just seems rather weak.
The Ryzen 7 9700X delivered 1.195x the performance of the Core i5 14600K competition or 1.15x the performance of the prior generation Ryzen 7 7700X. The Ryzen 5 9600X came in at 1.35x the performance of the Core i5 14500 and 1.25x the performance of the Ryzen 5 7600X.
15% improvement on what is a 400 benchmark, productivity oriented list??? Up to 25% if you aren't power starved?
That's...good...but it's basically 5-10% improvement across the board with a massive uplift in encryption, web servers, memDBs and DBs....
The raw performance of these Ryzen 9000 series processors was extremely impressive. These new Zen 5 desktop processors showed significant uplift in areas such as gaming and single-threaded workloads commonly led by Intel like Python, NumPy, Cryptsetup, audio encoding, and web browser performance. The Zen 5 generational uplift also showed great strides in even better AVX-512 performance for helping more AI workloads to a lot of other strong finishes in technical computing and HPC workloads. Whether you are just a heavy web browser user and running lots of Python scripts to doing a lot of creator workloads and software development, Zen 5 is an exceptionally well rounded design.
Stop simping Michael. This is 2 years after Zen 4, on a node that's supposed to be ~20% less power draw. I'm far from impressed. If I was tasked to build a new server farm for a cloud provider sure, but for client?
It's honestly not even worth mentioning.