Ryzen 5 7600X outperforms the Core i9-12900K in single thread loads

There are just a few months left before the debut of the new AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors based on the Zen 4 architecture, which will introduce several improvements, including a higher IPC, support for technologies such as DDR5 and PCI Express 5.0 and the integration of a GPU based on RDNA 2.

One of the new chips will be the Ryzen 5 7600X, a hex-core CPU which, according to a recent result appeared on UserBenchmark (spotted by the well-known leaker @Tum_Apisak), also exceeds the current top of Intel range, namely the Core i9-12900K, in single thread workloads of 22%, while if we compare it with the Core i5-12600K the gap reaches up to 27% and up to over 56% of the previous Ryzen 5 5600X. The result is very interesting, but the situation in the multi-core tests is decidedly different and the Ryzen 5 7600X cannot keep up with the Core i9-12900K, as the latter is a processor with 8 P-Cores and 8 E-cores .




The test was carried out on a configuration that included, in addition to the processor, also an ASRock N7-B65XT motherboard and 32GB (2 × 16 GB) of DDR5-5600 Trident Z5 RGB from G.Skill. Below, you will find a comparison table between the alleged Ryzen 5 7600X and the other chips currently on the market.

Single-Core Multi-Core Ryzen 5 7600X 243 Processor 1.478 Core i9-12900K 200 2.946 Core i5-12600K 191 1,884 Ryzen 5 5600X 156 1,198 A few days ago, through an article on the official blog, AMD had explained how it managed to improve the performance of its Adrenalin drivers, especially as regards the DirectX 11 area. For more details about it, we advise you to read our previous dedicated article.