Leaked benchmarks have surfaced online for AMD’s mainstream Ryzen 9000 processors, the upcoming mid-range 9600X and 9700X, which reportedly show some big performance improvements over Team Red’s current Ryzen 7000 equivalents.
As noted by Video cardzGeekbench 6 scores have emerged for these two next-gen Zen 5 processors, showing impressive results (as leaks always do).
The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X (with six cores and 12 threads) managed an impressive 3,284 in single-core and 14,594 in multi-core. For reference, that’s about 6% faster than the top-end Intel Core i9-14900K, but the Ryzen CPU will obviously be available at a much lower price.
As for the 9600X’s multi-core performance, it’s solid, but expectedly slower than Intel’s 14th-gen Core i7 and i9 processors, as well as higher-end Ryzen 7000 chips due to their higher core and thread counts. That score of 14,594 is 13% faster than the current AMD Ryzen 7600X, though. So all in all, these are impressive numbers for a six-core CPU.
It’s a similar story with the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 9700X, which has a reported single-core result of 3,312 and a multi-core of 16,431 (again, in Geekbench 6). For context, that’s a full 7% faster than Intel’s 14900K in the former category, though it can’t quite compete in terms of multi-core performance. Still, these numbers are encouraging for an eight-core processor.
Comparing the 9700X against the current 7700X, the Zen 5 upgrade sees a notable 13% increase in single-core and 7% in multi-core performance. While that likely won’t be enough to convince 7700X owners to upgrade, gamers here will certainly benefit from that single-core uptick if they jump on Team Red’s Ryzen platform for the first time.
AMD looks set to continue its valuable play for gamers
Single-core performance remains the most important factor in gaming, and both next-gen Ryzen CPUs deliver in this regard. If these leaked Geekbench 6 benchmarks are accurate, the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X could be considered the best processors for their price-to-performance ratio.
If all else fails, it’ll be encouraging to see the relatively affordable Ryzen chips outperform their rivals’ flagships in some areas, even if they’re nowhere near as good in terms of creativity or productivity.