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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance
Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux workloads from developers to creators to AVX-512 embracing AI and HPC workloads.
I had been very much enjoying them to the extent I was rather surprised myself last week when hearing of some reviewers not finding much excitement out of these new Zen 5 processors but typically those just looking at Windows gaming performance or running only a few canned/synthetic benchmarks. Compared to the 9600X/9700X review, some of the lower-end Intel/AMD processors for comparison were removed to make the graphs a bit less overwhelming with performance data. All motherboards were with their latest BIOS, 2TB Corsair MP700 PRO NVMe SSD, and Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics used throughout.
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