The Ryzen 7 9700X is AMD’s 8-core Zen 5 chip meant to succeed the Ryzen 7 7700X. Since AMD has claimed that the Zen 5 architecture brings a 16% IPC uplift on average, it is quite easy to see that the Ryzen 7 9700X will handily outperform the Ryzen 7 7700X. However, the exact performance advantage that the chip might enjoy remains a mystery.
Thankfully, a Ryzen 7 9700X sample has stopped by the Geekbench database, giving us a look at the potential of the CPU. The chip was placed inside an ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E HERO motherboard alongside 32 GB of DDR5-6000 memory. Additionally, it appears PBO (Precision Boost Overdrive) had been enabled which pushed the boost clock of the processor to 5.6 GHz, 100 MHz more than the officially claimed figure of 5.5 GHz.
Ryzen 7 9700X performance
The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X under discussion earned single-core and multi-core Geekbench 6 scores of 3,312 and 16,431 respectively. According to Wccftech, these scores represent a gain of 14% in single-core and 8% in multi-core vs the Ryzen 7 7700X. The single-core score is also better than the Intel Core i9-14900KS, Intel’s 14th-gen flagship that can boost up to an insane 6.2 GHz.
The Ryzen 7 9700X’s single-threaded Geekbench 6 performance uplift is in line with the Ryzen 5 9600X which, as we reported yesterday, seems to enjoy an advantage of 15% over the Ryzen 5 7600X (Available on Amazon).
Comparing the Ryzen 7 9700X to Intel’s mid-range offering that is in the same price bracket, namely the Intel Core i7-14700K, the Zen 5 CPU is clearly faster in single-threaded but lags behind in the multi-threaded department by a delta of 15%. So, even with a healthy IPC increase, the Ryzen 7 9700X could have a tough time against its Intel rival in the multi-core workloads.
All in all, these preliminary Ryzen 7 9700X performance figures seem like a decent generation uplift in the single-core department with a boring multi-core increase. Therefore, the chip should drive games much better than its predecessor but highly threaded workloads might not see as much of an improvement.
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