The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X is a mid-range desktop CPU of the Granite Ridge product family that sports 6 Zen 5 cores (12 threads) running at 3.9 GHz to 5.4 GHz along with PCIe 5 support and a basic RDNA 2 architecture iGPU. The Ryzen was launched in June 2024, with sales slated to start some time in August.
Architecture and Features
Like Strix Point APUs, Granite Ridge processors make use of the new Zen 5 microarchitecture. However, there are no efficient cores here; all of 9600X's cores are full Zen 5 cores with a "proper" Zen 5 implementation, not the simplified mobile version that has a lower AVX-512 performance. Furthermore, Granite Ridge is a multi-die design with only the CPU cores produced using a fairly modern 4 nm TSMC process. Strix Point processors are a single-die design, from what we know.
According to AMD, Zen 5 delivers a 16% IPC uplift over Zen 4 thanks to branch prediction improvements and other refinements.
Elsewhere, the 9600X has 32 MB of L3 cache and 24 direct PCIe 5 lanes (3.93 GB/s throughput per lane) with up to 12 additional PCIe 4 lanes available depending on the motherboard. It supports DDR5 RAM as fast as 5,600 MT/s (up to 8,000 MT/s if overclocked).
The Ryzen 5 is unlocked for overclocking. Naturally, this AM5 socket CPU fully supports Windows 11, 64-bit Windows 10 as well as many Linux distros.
The Radeon 610M comes equipped with just 128 unified shaders running at up to 2,200 MHz. Its gaming performance is extremely low but still sufficient for competitive titles (Counter-Strike 2 is perfectly playable at 1080p / Low) as well as really old titles (pre-2019).
It can HW-decode many popular video codecs including first and foremost AVC, HEVC, VP9, AV1.
Power consumption
The CPU cores are built with TSMC's N4P process which delivers a good, as of mid 2024, power efficiency. (Apple is the leader in this regard with the second-generation 3 nm process.)
The Ryzen 5's long-term TDP is either 65 W or 105 W, with each user free to make their own choice. Overclocking the chip will cause its power consumption figures to go up significantly.
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