Summary
If everything goes as planned and as stated in the PR slides, you can quickly make a general assessment and draw a conclusion. But, as fair and objective as this one has to remain simple: without further tests and especially without further test samples, a wrong judgement would surely come out at this point. I deliberately stopped the workstation tests before the problem with the second CCD of the Ryzen 9 5900X was solved. If a Ryzen 9 5950X is running, the problem from Shadow of the Tomb Raider would have to be attributed to that one CPU and not the series.
I would exclude the motherboard at this point, because it was exchanged for test purposes and also a run through with other BIOSes did not show any difference to the error pattern. This was also the case with the break-in of Ultra-HD in Far Cry New Dawn, where it affected both new Ryzen 5000’s. The fact that I finally limited myself to five extracted, exemplary examples due to the wealth of detail distorts the picture somewhat, because many games performed very similarly (well). Nevertheless, it is only fair to question all facets in more detail.
The normal case is represented very well with Horion Zero Dawn, Total War: Three Kingdoms also shows that you can even beat Intel in your own promo games and with World War Z you can then completely humiliate the blue faction. The games like Far Cry NewDdawn and Shadow of the Tomb Raider are certainly an exception, but you can’t and shouldn’t ignore them either.
Leaving aside the exceptions, the Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 5 5600X perform really well, with the efficiency of the Ryzen 5 5600X being particularly impressive. The Ryzen 5 5600X is convincing in its performance class, as the Intel Core i5-10600K is very often literally pushed away.The Ryzen 9 5900X is often enough on par with the Intel Core i9-10900K in terms of power consumption, at least in gaming, and even surpasses it in some scenarios. There’s nothing left to do but to take off one’s hat in the direction of Intel, that they have pressed such a real performer out of the supposed old silicon.
Conclusion
Despite all the euphoria about AMD’s latest CPUs: There will and must be follow-ups, because without a more precise clarification of the problems that have occurred, cumulative general statements about performance and power consumption simply don’t make sense. That is also the reason why I have omitted this one (for the time being) and limit myself to the verbal judgement only. But what is undeniable: all CPUs benefit greatly from the higher memory clock. From this point of view, it is legitimate to do the tests with this kind of performance enhancement as well.
Today we had both in the test and you can see really well why the benchmarks alone don’t make you happy with the exact specifications. Especially at the last MHz, AMD CPUs benefit more from the rising fabric clock. The Ryzen 9 5900X, on the other hand, went up astonishingly far at 2000 MHz, while the smaller Ryzen 5 3600X was only really stable at 1900 MHz. Despite everything, this is a huge step forward, which the new Ryzens, despite nominally lower clock speeds, often enough use on the current Intel CPUs of the 10th generation. Generation is passing by.
The whole architecture, up to the completely redesigned cache can convince as long as no exceptions occur, as in my tests. What is still to come are the two remaining CPUs, the workstation benchmarks and of course a cumulative summary including a possible purchase tip. Today was just the beginning.
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