AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Review – 9600X & 9700X
What’s New?
What’s New?
Regular readers will be aware that whenever new architecture is launched we could spend a week explaining the granular details that might make a difference. We always choose not to. The end result is what matters to you, and us. Do you care that this unifies the integer scheduler with the age matrix? We understand that an R&D team has worked crazy hard on such things. Similarly it’s clear that people much cleverer than us will be punching the air with delight. For us, we just want benchmarks. However, if you’re a programmer, or involved in the development of the new Ryzen 9000 Series, you’re allowed to enjoy these slides.
Whenever there is a new processor launch, there is a new suite of motherboards. With AMD you always get a lengthier lifespan because of their commitment to their socket design. Or, perhaps, you could say designing a more flexible socket initially so it works with future products. Either way, the 800 chipsets aren’t yet in our grasp, and its looking like they wont be till September. Time to start saving? There’s two ways of looking at it, but if you’re looking at buying into the 9000’s early and don’t have an AM5 board already it will mean buying a 600 series board. To then a few weeks later have loads of brand new boars come to the market and instantly make you wonder should you have waited…? When in actual fact we think AMD should have waited and launched everything together.
The lower power demands of the updated AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors mean that you get more performance, more efficiently. It also means that there could be more overclocking overhead for those of you who don’t object to pushing things a little further.
Memory is one of the big areas AMD have beefed up. As you’ll soon see we managed to get 8000MHz out of nothing more than a BIOS setting. No fancy twiddling or esoteric voltages. Kit in, speed selected, boot. Speaking of booting the initial boot period is currently slow on the 9000 series as the memory training happens. Once that’s done the boot times improve, and AMD promise that future BIOS updates will reduce this still further. We think it’s a small price to pay for such insane speeds. Most of us power on and go off to make a drink anyway.
