Ryzen 5 9600X: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 5 9600X provides good benchmark performance at 19.67% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

Summary

AMD started Ryzen 5 9600X sales 8 August 2024 at a recommended price of $279. This is a Granite Ridge architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 4 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 5400 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM5 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR5 memory.

Primary details

Ryzen 5 9600X processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking304
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation51.35
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency27.59of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameGranite Ridge (2024)
Release date8 August 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279of 17,906 (tray) (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads12
Base clock speed3.9 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed5.4 GHzof 50 MHz (i486DX-50)
L1 cache80 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache32 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography4 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size70.6 mm2
Maximum core temperature95 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors8,315 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Unlocked multiplier+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 9600X compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketAM5
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 9600X. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsSMT, AES, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, MMX (+), SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A
AES-NI+
AVX+
Precision Boost 2+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 9600X's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 5 9600X.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon Graphics

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version5.0
PCI Express lanes24of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 5 9600X. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 5 9600X 19.67

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Ryzen 5 9600X 30101

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Ryzen 5 9600X 9324

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Ryzen 5 9600X 54599

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Ryzen 5 9600X 17706

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Ryzen 5 9600X 31

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Ryzen 5 9600X 2630

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 5 9600X 341

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 5 9600X 4

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Ryzen 5 9600X 13.4

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Ryzen 5 9600X 154

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Ryzen 5 9600X 364

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Ryzen 5 9600X 14819

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 5 9600X 12840

Blender(-)

Ryzen 5 9600X 185

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 5 9600X 2507

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 5 9600X 7760

7-Zip

Ryzen 5 9600X 68266

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 5 9600X 380

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Ryzen 5 9600X's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Core i9-9960X 100.51
Ryzen 5 9600X 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 5 9600X is Core i9-7980XE, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 5 9600X:

Core i9-9960X 100.51
Ryzen 5 9600X 100

Similar processors

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Recommended GPUs

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These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 5 9600X in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 162 configurations using Ryzen 5 9600X in our database.

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