AMD Ryzen 9 5900X CPU Review

Workstation & Productivity Testing

Blender Benchmark 2.90 – BMW27

A new platform to collect and display the results of hardware and software performance tests. Aimed at an optimal comparison between system hardware and installations using open source software and testing content in the public domain.

AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900X brings workstation performance to the mainstream desktop, and this isn’t even the biggest SKU in the family.

POV-Ray 3.7 Standard Benchmark – CPU

POV-Ray rendering is incredibly quick on the 5900X with it shaving 7 seconds off the run made by the 3900X and 12 seconds faster than Intel’s current flagship.

x265 HD Benchmark
A benchmark that measures how fast your computer can encode HD (1080p) video in the new H.265 / HEVC format.

Transcoding video is impressively quick with a notable leap over the last generation.

7-Zip

The benchmark shows a rating in MIPS (million instructions per second). The rating value is calculated from the measured speed, and it is normalized with the results of the Intel Core 2 CPU with a multi-threading option switched off. So if you have a modern CPU from Intel or AMD, rating values in single-thread mode must be close to real CPU frequency. There are two tests, compression with the LZMA method and decompression with the LZMA method. Once the total passes reach 50, the score is taken

File compression and decompression are extremely quick with the 5900X doing more than 125 billion instructions per second.