AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Review

3DMark Firestrike

3DMark tests your system’s GPU and CPU performance by rendering extremely demanding game-like scenes in real-time. The faster the benchmark runs, the better your score. Now your quest begins. What can you do to get a better score?

3DMark is available on Steam here.

In 3DMark Firestrike we see a similar increase in performance that we’ve been continuously seeing with the 7600X pushing around 8.5% ahead of the 5600X which was already slightly ahead of the 12600K from Intel to start with.

3DMark Timespy

Time Spy is a DirectX 12 benchmark test for gaming PCs running Windows 10 and above only. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, built from the ground up to support the latest API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading, Time Spy is the ideal benchmark for testing the DirectX 12 performance of modern graphics cards and is typically a good benchmark for mid-to-high-end hardware. Furthermore, Timespy Extreme is designed for 4K performance testing.

3DMark is available on Steam here.

In 3DMark Timespy the 12600K is near the top of our chart and pushes ahead of the new Ryzen processor by 7%. We do still see an uplift from the 5600X of 4% but it’s not really enough to push closer to Intel’s Alder Lake equivalent.

Geekbench 5

Geekbench 5 is a cross-platform benchmark that measures your system’s performance with the press of a button. How will your mobile device or desktop computer perform when push comes to crunch? How will it compare to the newest devices on the market? Find out today with Geekbench 5.

Available now on Geekbench.

When looking at single core performance in Geekbench, the 7900X shows some impressive performance over the 5600X of 31% and a lower, but still impressive 10.8% over the 12900K. With such a strong emphasis on single core performance in games, could this be a sign of what’s to come in our gaming testing? We’ll find out soon.

Moving onto multi-core performance and we see a huge leap of over 40% when comparing the uplift from the 5600X to the 7600X though performance does fall slightly behind the 12600K with it taking a 9.2% lead over the new Ryzen processor.

PCMark 10

PCMark 10 features a comprehensive set of tests that cover the wide variety of tasks performed in the modern workplace. With a range of performance tests, custom run options, Battery Life Profile, and new Storage benchmarks, PCMark 10 is the complete PC benchmark for the modern office.

Available now on Steam.

In PCMark 10 Express, we again see the 7600X with a decent uplift over the 5600X, by 16.8% and compared to the 12600K, we see a healthy 12% lead from the 7600X but that’s not the big news here. What we actually find is the sheer clock speed of the 7600X and 7900X for that fact topping our charts where it really matters for this test.