AMD Spring CPU Refresh: Ryzen 7 5700X And An Affordable Ryzen 5 Trio Tested
AMD Spring Ryzen Refresh: Processor, System And Browser Benchmarks
When configuring our test systems for this article, we first made sure all firmwares were up to date, then we entered each system's respective BIOS / UEFI and set each board to its "Optimized" or "High performance" defaults. We then saved the settings, re-entered the BIOS and set the memory frequency to the maximum officially supported speed for the given platform (without overclocking). The SSDs were then formatted, and Windows 11 Pro was installed and fully updated.
Our Geekbench results don't yield any surprises. The new Ryzen 5 4500, 5500 and 5600 all drop in just behind the Ryzen 5 5600X. The somewhat higher-end Ryzen 7 5700X finishes a few rungs higher though and lands smack dab in between the Core i5-11600K and Core i9-11900K.
These latest Ryzen 5000 processors and the Ryzen 5 4500 landed about where we expected in PCMark 10. The Ryzen 5 4500 trails overall, but is only a few percentage points behind the Ryzen 5 5500. The Ryzen 5 5500 and 5600 sandwich the 11th Gen Core processors, including the Core i9-11900K, which falls victim to the more affordable Ryzen 5 5600. The Ryzen 7 5700X finishes considerably higher, but misses the mark set by the Alder Lake-based Core i5-12600K.
The Ryzen 7 5700X pulled off a better responsiveness score than the 5600X here, but quizzically trailed in the other tests (we repeated this test 4 times with similar results). The rest of the new Ryzen line-up, however, finishes exactly where you would expect, falling in just behind their higher-end counterparts.
When the Windows installation was complete, we installed all of the drivers necessary for our components, disabled Auto-Updating and Windows Defender, and installed all of our benchmarking software. When that process was done, we performed a disk clean-up, cleared any temp and prefetch data, and optimized all of the SSDs using Windows' built-in utility. Finally, we enabled Windows Focus Assist to minimize any potential interruptions and let the systems reach an idle state before invoking a test.
Our Test Systems: Revamped For Windows 11
Geekbench v5.4.1 CPU Compute Benchmark
In the GeekBench tests, we're stressing only the CPU cores in a system (not the graphics card and GPU), with both single and multi-threaded workloads. The tests are comprised of encryption processing, image compression, HTML5 parsing, physics calculations and other general purpose compute processing workloads.
Our Geekbench results don't yield any surprises. The new Ryzen 5 4500, 5500 and 5600 all drop in just behind the Ryzen 5 5600X. The somewhat higher-end Ryzen 7 5700X finishes a few rungs higher though and lands smack dab in between the Core i5-11600K and Core i9-11900K.
UL PCMark 10 Benchmarks
Next, up we have some full-system testing with PCMark. We're reporting all test results from the PCMark 10 benchmark suite, including the Essentials, Productivity, Digital Content Creation and and total PCMark score. The Essentials test covers workloads like web browsing, video conferencing and app start-up times, while Productivity tests everyday office apps from spreadsheets to word processing. Finally, the Digital Content Creation test evaluates performance of a machine with respect to photo and video editing, as well as rendering and visualization.
These latest Ryzen 5000 processors and the Ryzen 5 4500 landed about where we expected in PCMark 10. The Ryzen 5 4500 trails overall, but is only a few percentage points behind the Ryzen 5 5500. The Ryzen 5 5500 and 5600 sandwich the 11th Gen Core processors, including the Core i9-11900K, which falls victim to the more affordable Ryzen 5 5600. The Ryzen 7 5700X finishes considerably higher, but misses the mark set by the Alder Lake-based Core i5-12600K.
Bapco Crossmark Testing
Crossmark is a new cross-platform benchmark from Bapco that's available for Windows, Android, iOS and MacOS. Like PCMark, Crossmark measures overall system performance and using real-world applications. It characterizes system responsiveness as well, based on the results of its Creativity and Productivity benchmarks.
The Ryzen 7 5700X pulled off a better responsiveness score than the 5600X here, but quizzically trailed in the other tests (we repeated this test 4 times with similar results). The rest of the new Ryzen line-up, however, finishes exactly where you would expect, falling in just behind their higher-end counterparts.
Browser & Web App Benchmarks: Jetstream 2 And Speedometer 2
Next up, we have some numbers from the Speedometer 2.0 and Jetstream 2 tests available at browserbench.org. The Speedometer Benchmark Suite uses a wide array of latency and throughput benchmarks to evaluate web application performance and Jetstream evaluates Javascript and WebAssembly performance; both tests take all of their individual results and tabulate them into a final score.
These benchmarks measures performance of an array of browser-based technologies used on modern, rich web applications. Scores in these benchmark are an indicator of the performance users would see when browsing the web and running advanced web apps. All of the systems were tested using the latest version of Microsoft's Edge browser, with default browser settings, on a clean, fully-updated install of Windows 11.
The Jetstream benchmark produced mostly-expected results. The Ryzen 5 4500 trailed overall, but the 5500 and Ryzen 7 5700X slotted-in just ahead of the 11th Gen Core processors. The Ryzen 5 5600 put up a slightly higher than expected result, but is roughly within the margin of error for this test. Speedometer produced more expected results with the Ryzen 5 4500 and 5500 trailing overall, and the Ryzen 5 5600 and Ryzen 7 5700X being tightly grouped in the middle of the pack.
These benchmarks measures performance of an array of browser-based technologies used on modern, rich web applications. Scores in these benchmark are an indicator of the performance users would see when browsing the web and running advanced web apps. All of the systems were tested using the latest version of Microsoft's Edge browser, with default browser settings, on a clean, fully-updated install of Windows 11.
7-Zip Data Decompression Tests
The 7-Zip benchmark measures compression and decompression performance using the LZMA method, which leverages the Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm to perform lossless data compression. The benchmark produces a final rating in GIPS (giga instructions per second).
The 7-Zip decompression benchmark had the new Ryzen 5 processors tied (Ryzen 5 4500) or outrunning the Core i5-11600K in the multi-threaded test, but the Intel chip had a clear win in the single-thread test. The Ryzen 7 5700X, however, outpaces the Core i9-11900K in both the single and multi-threaded tests and slots in just behind the 5800X.
