Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux workloads from developers to creators to AVX-512 embracing AI and HPC workloads. Today the review embargo lifts on the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X and as expected given the prior 6-core/8-core tests: these new chips are wild! The Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X are fabulous processors for those engaging in heavy real-world Linux workloads with excellent performance uplift and stunning power efficiency.

I have been very much enjoying my time testing out AMD’s Zen 5 wares from the Ryzen AI 300 series to the Ryzen 9000 series. The Ryzen 5 9600X / Ryzen 7 9700X were great for whetting my appetite while awaiting the Ryzen 9 9900 series. I had been very much enjoying them to the extent I was rather surprised myself last week when hearing of some reviewers not finding much excitement out of these new Zen 5 processors but typically those just looking at Windows gaming performance or running only a few canned/synthetic benchmarks. Following the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Linux testing when the Ryzen 9 9900X/9950X arrived, they were put immediately to my gauntlet of hundreds of Linux benchmarks and indeed living up to expectations.

  • Eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws
    5·
    3 months ago

    Still not sure whether I will upgrade to 9900x or 9700x

    I’m recently:

    • Doing a lot of av1 software encoding at low presets
    • Not trusting yet of rocm future

    So going harder on the stronger CPU rather than an expensive the GPU seems to be the answer for me. If I gamble on proper rocm support for some AI workloads and fail at least I could run some casual stuff using the CPU device.

    • UnpledgedCatnapTipper
      5·
      3 months ago

      Is there a reason you’re encoding in software other than not having hardware that can av1 encode? I recently got a ~$100 Intel Arc gpu to encode for my media server and it’s working great so far.

      • Eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws
        4·
        3 months ago

        For archival purposes software encoding is always more efficient size wise.

        I am also waiting for an Arc to arrive to plug into my jellyfin box.

        Hardware encoding is fast yeah but wont save me disk space.