The market launch of the Ryzen 9000 Series AMD’s processors have not had the success that the company initially expected, both with the general public and with the media that analyzed their performance, a performance that left much to be desired compared to what would be expected when adopting the Zen 5 architecture.
This performance issue only occurred using Windows 11 24H2a version of Windows that is still in beta and is scheduled for release later this year. Using different versions of Linux, especially the one designed by Intel for its processors, the expected performance increase in a new generation was improved.
Microsoft and AMD have been working together to improve the performance of the Ryzen 9000 via software and with the release of the latest update now available on the Insider channel, performance has been significantly improved in a large number of games. But, best of all, this improvement is also reflected in the Ryzen 7000 with Zen 4 architecture.
Contrary to what one might initially think, it has not been AMD or Microsoft who have announced that the latest available build of Windows 11 will substantially improve the performance of the Ryzen 9000. This information comes from Hardware Unboxed, who has posted a video on YouTube showing the performance improvement both in the new range of Ryzen 9000 processors with Zen 5 architecture and in the Ryzen 7000 with Zen 4 architecture.
11% more performance with the Ryzen 7 9700X
During the presentation of the Ryzen 9000 Zen 5AMD claimed that the performance improvement of this new range of processors compared to the Ryzen 7000 with Zen 4 architecture was 9% on average, figures that have now proven to be conservative.
However, according to the test that Hardware Unboxed has carried out on 43 titles at 1080p, an improvement is observed, which, in some titles, reaches up to 11%, two points above what AMD claimed. But, what is most striking is that if we compare the performance between the Ryzen 9000 and the Ryzen 7000, the performance difference is practically negligible, both using the latest available build of Windows 11 24H2.
To perform the performance comparison test between processors Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 7 7700X Windows 11 23H2 Build 22631 (the latest official version of Windows 11 available at the moment) was used together with the latest version of Windows 24H2 Build 26100 which will not be released for a few months. With the previous build of Windows 24H2, the performance shown by the Ryzen 9000 was practically the same as with the current version of Windows 11 available on Microsoft’s servers and which is slightly below the Linux distro Ubuntu.
AMD could have waited for Microsoft to add software improvements to improve performance and thus avoid a large number of bad reviews that, without a doubt, affected initial sales. Fortunately, the problem was solved faster than expected, so this initial problem should be considered a blunder on AMD’s part.