Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000)

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leoneazzurro

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Anybody see this? Just posted up, no idea how legitimate it is.

It is linked in the previous page. A thing he said that he had some troubles with the BIOS and setting the correct IF speed, so he had to set it manually. In any case, there is no comparison to the 7900X - only to the 7800X3D. And I think it was clear that the 3D chip - especially with a single CCD - would have been better at gaming. Also some strange results, i.e. Fortnite @1080p is practically the same score as @1440p for the 9900X - a bit strange.
EDIT: the RAM speed was set to 7200 for both CPUs
 
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Philste

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Anybody see this? Just posted up, no idea how legitimate it is.
I mean I got about 8-9% lead for 7800X3D with these tests. That would match the "12% faster than 5800X3D" claim. So I would say yeah, seems to be legit. Now you can argue if the numbers are good or not. I would say they are close to horrible.

But what do the guys at WTFTech smoke to write "lower power" in the headline? 102W average is way above 7800X3D. However, it's the 12 Core so it's sameish to 7900X. Still looks like a gen to skip. If they can't get 3D to clock with normal clocks, they only will have like a 10% lead over ZEN4X3D. Probably not enough to convince the majority to upgrade.
 

Goop_reformed

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1080p ultra/competetive, average fps, 7800x3d %faster than 9900x, anything within 3% is a tie:
Alan wake 2: tie
Total War: tie
City Skylines 2: +24%
COD warzone: tie
CSGO 2: +8%
Cyberpunk: +16%
Fortnite: +16%
Starfield: tie
The Last of us P1: +18%
You are looking at it wrong. Starfield and Total War are what important here.
 

leoneazzurro

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I mean I got about 8-9% lead for 7800X3D with these tests. That would match the "12% faster than 5800X3D" claim. So I would say yeah, seems to be legit. Now you can argue if the numbers are good or not. I would say they are close to horrible.

But what do the guys at WTFTech smoke to write "lower power" in the headline? 102W average is way above 7800X3D. However, it's the 12 Core so it's sameish to 7900X. Still looks like a gen to skip. If they can't get 3D to clock with normal clocks, they only will have like a 10% lead over ZEN4X3D. Probably not enough to convince the majority to upgrade.
Horrible? The 9900X is clearly not the best choice for the gaming, but this was clear even before the launch, just as the 7900X is not the best choice for the gaming. But in every other aspect it will wipe the floor with the 7800X3D. The review is unfortunately missing quite a lot, like any comparison to the 7900X and to the Intel CPUs.
 

Geddagod

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The retail CPUs and reviews are not even out yet, and all this arguing about Zen 5 gaming performance ? Insanity....
Wow, people speculating in a speculation thread? Insanity....
I mean I got about 8-9% lead for 7800X3D with these tests. That would match the "12% faster than 5800X3D" claim. So I would say yeah, seems to be legit. Now you can argue if the numbers are good or not. I would say they are close to horrible.

But what do the guys at WTFTech smoke to write "lower power" in the headline? 102W average is way above 7800X3D. However, it's the 12 Core so it's sameish to 7900X. Still looks like a gen to skip. If they can't get 3D to clock with normal clocks, they only will have like a 10% lead over ZEN4X3D. Probably not enough to convince the majority to upgrade.
Maybe MT applications fare better. Otherwise, this would be a hilarious launch.
 
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inf64

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It's not ideal to compare 2CCD chip with buggy BIOS (as per his own admission) versus the best gaming chip on the market. It would have been great if he could have used at least 9700X in the comparison.
 

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CSGO 2: +8%
Zen4 is like 30% slower than x3d in cs2, fyi, My own personal tests, done by locking the game to one or another CCD

x3d
29-09-2023, 21:20:29 cs2.exe benchmark completed, 56597 frames rendered in 72.796 s
Average framerate : 777.4 FPS
Minimum framerate : 647.1 FPS
Maximum framerate : 928.7 FPS
1% low framerate : 254.0 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 197.7 FPS
ccd1
29-09-2023, 21:22:08 cs2.exe benchmark completed, 42766 frames rendered in 69.109 s
Average framerate : 618.8 FPS
Minimum framerate : 324.9 FPS
Maximum framerate : 817.8 FPS
1% low framerate : 161.2 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 10.2 FPS
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inf64

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Zen4 is like 30% slower than x3d in cs2, fyi, My own personal tests, done by locking the game to one or another CCD

x3d
29-09-2023, 21:20:29 cs2.exe benchmark completed, 56597 frames rendered in 72.796 s
Average framerate : 777.4 FPS
Minimum framerate : 647.1 FPS
Maximum framerate : 928.7 FPS
1% low framerate : 254.0 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 197.7 FPS
ccd1
29-09-2023, 21:22:08 cs2.exe benchmark completed, 42766 frames rendered in 69.109 s
Average framerate : 618.8 FPS
Minimum framerate : 324.9 FPS
Maximum framerate : 817.8 FPS
1% low framerate : 161.2 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 10.2 FPS
[/ISPOILER]
That is a massive difference that more cache brings. Thanks for sharing.
 

leoneazzurro

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It's not ideal to compare 2CCD chip with buggy BIOS (as per his own admission) versus the best gaming chip on the market. It would have been great if he could have used at least 9700X in the comparison.
On a partial excuse, he said the BIOS is the latest available on the Gigabyte site for his motherboard, and it has the 9000 series support advertised. On the negative side, a recap page with the configuration and list of drivers used would have helped a lot.
 

Josh128

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I mean I got about 8-9% lead for 7800X3D with these tests. That would match the "12% faster than 5800X3D" claim. So I would say yeah, seems to be legit. Now you can argue if the numbers are good or not. I would say they are close to horrible.

But what do the guys at WTFTech smoke to write "lower power" in the headline? 102W average is way above 7800X3D. However, it's the 12 Core so it's sameish to 7900X. Still looks like a gen to skip. If they can't get 3D to clock with normal clocks, they only will have like a 10% lead over ZEN4X3D. Probably not enough to convince the majority to upgrade.

Man, I need to go on a tech speculation guessing game or something, Ive been on fire lately, lol. I just got finished saying ~5% to 8% slower than Zen 4 X3D in gaming a few posts earlier, lol.

Hassan apparently only looked at the power consumption in one of the games, lol. That place has gone to hell in terms of article quality lately, even by its own low standards.

About the Zen 5 X3D, its almost a certainty that it will not hit normal clocks. I did predict that for Zen 4 X3D last go round and was totally wrong. This time, I would bet we'll probably see ~5.2 GHz out of the box, with AMD letting users play at their own risk trying to squeeze out another 100 to 200 MHz. I'd like to be pleasantly surprised, but unless something radically different was done in the design, I think thats what we'll get.
 

Hail The Brain Slug

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On a partial excuse, he said the BIOS is the latest available on the Gigabyte site for his motherboard, and it has the 9000 series support advertised. On the negative side, a recap page with the configuration and list of drivers used would have helped a lot.
The "latest gigabyte bios" is buggy even with Zen 4 cpus. I have had to rollback from 1.2.0.0a to 1.1.7.0
 

leoneazzurro

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Hmm.. it is not clear - the guy seems to be not an expert in memory config. He thinks that the fact Ryzen 9000 supports a IF clock of 2400MHz means that IF should run at that speed regardless of the memory speed. He also said he had to manually act on the IF speed because the scores for the 9900X were all over the place. Quite frankly, i think he speeded up too much for being the first reviewer but I'd look more at GN or HUB reviews for more appropriate memory settings.
 

Philste

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Horrible? The 9900X is clearly not the best choice for the gaming, but this was clear even before the launch, just as the 7900X is not the best choice for the gaming.
Yeah, your right. I can't really hide that I expected more out of ZEN5. Not the 32% or whatever, but I still thought it would be a leap. I mean it's the first time AMD widened the arch like that since ZEN exists. And now it looks to be straightup worse than ZEN4 from the pure "performance uplift compared to predecessor" side. I mean Vanilla ZEN4 at least managed to be around 5800X3D. If 9700X is really 8-9% behind 7800X3D that is really a big gap, given we are at a point where 5% mean destroying the competition for some people.

I mean AMD showed the Blender generational uplift slides for Multithread and the best one was 9950X with 22%, worst one 9700X with 11%. And Blender was one of the biggest numbers in the IPC Slide, 23% if I remember right. So MT average is like 7-15% at average? ZEN4 had 30+% gaming also seems to be Single digit, at least compared to ZEN4 on same RAM.
 
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