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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Review: Zen 5 brings stellar gaming performance
We tested AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X in a battery of gaming and productivity benchmarks to see how it compares to competing Intel processors.
AMD updates Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 benchmark comparisons to Intel chips — details 'Admin' boost coming to Windows 11, chipset driver fix
AMD penned a blog post today to clarify Zen 5's gaming performance after withering criticism in the wake of its turbulent Ryzen 9000 launch.
Ryzen CPUs receive a performance bump with the Windows 11 24H2 Release Preview version — impact varies
Many titles receive a performance bump of around 5% to 8%, but some games also suffered from a loss of FPS compared to systems running Windows 11 23H2.
MSI releases firmware with 105W TDP mode for Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X — multi-core performance boosted by up to 13%
MSI has announced AMD AGESA BIOS PI 1.2.0.1, a new BIOS update "for trial use" that allows users to crank the TDP of their Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs. This follows the leak of the update from earlier this week, whose performance numbers exactly match MSI's.
Zen 5 CPU performance is unaffected by Inception mitigation
AMD's latest Zen 5 architecture is reportedly the first architecture since Zen 3 to be immune to the Inception vulnerability - it does not require software-based mitigations.
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