It’s already been almost two years since we wrote the review of AMD ZEN 4 processors, with samples of the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X. Today, we welcome to the editorial team two new processors from the ZEN 5 generation: the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X. A lot has changed over the past two years, especially in the BIOS of motherboards compatible with the AM5 socket. In fact, we’ll be testing these two new processors on a ROG X670E GENE motherboard, since the new AMD X870E chipsets are not yet available, even though several brands have already unveiled their future models.
So we’re going to concentrate on the performance gains between the previous generation ZEN 4 and these two new models built around ZEN 5. Thanks to AMD for making these two processors available to us. We encountered some performance problems during our tests, which we identified with AMD as being linked to a problem with the SOC voltage in the BIOS when we activated the EXPO profile at 6000 MT/s. By manually reducing the voltage in the BIOS of our ROG Crosshair X670E GENE, the problem was solved. We’ve escalated this problem on to the ASUS team, who are working on a fix. Only the GENE motherboard seems to be affected.
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