AMD Ryzen 5 9600X offers 14% performance uplift over Ryzen 5 7600X in leaked benchmark

AMD has confirmed you won't be able to buy the Ryzen 5 9600X on its initial July 31 and wait until August 8. Its supposed $229 asking price will be well worth it, as it offers a commendable performance uplift over the Ryzen 5 7600X. The Zen 5 Granite Ridge CPU has now been put through Cinebench R23 (H/T HXL on X).

It scores 2,244 and 17,037 points in the benchmark's single and multi-core tests. According to our benchmark database, the Zen 4-based Ryzen 5 7500X scored 1,965 and 15,236 points in the benchmark. Essentially, the Zen 5 CPU offers a 14% and 11% performance uplift in single and multi-core performance, respectively.

This sits in line with earlier benchmarks that showed an average 15-16% performance gap between Ryzen 7000 and Ryzen 9000 CPUs. Plus, this is presumably an unoptimized Ryzen 5 9600X sample, and the retail units could potentially do much better with subsequent BIOS/microcode updates. AMD said it needed more time to polish Zen 5 SKUs and will almost certainly use that time to deliver said updates.

On to Team Blue, the Core i5-14600K scored 2,064 and 24,491 points in Cinebench R24, making the Ryzen 5 9500X just 8% faster in single-core performance and about 30% slower in multi-core. Then again, the latter is expected as a 6-core CPU cannot realistically outperform a 14-core part. That said, things look grim for the entry-level Zen 5 SKU, as it might not have what it takes to trade blows with a similarly-specced Arrow Lake SKU.