As you would expect, the AMD Ryzen 5 9600 isn't too behind the Ryzen 5 9600X in performance as both share many identical specifications.
Ryzen 5 9600 Scores 29,369 Points in CPU Mark, Roughly 2.2% Lower Than Ryzen 9600X but Brings a Solid 14.5% Uplift Over Predecessor in Single-Core Prowess
AMD's Ryzen 5 9600 non-X variant was released last month and was retailing for around $20 less than the Ryzen 5 9600X. The CPU is yet to enjoy wide availability and, since it shares most of its specifications with the Ryzen 5 9600X, it won't probably be more popular than the latter.
Nonetheless, as one would expect, the Ryzen 5 9600 is on par with the performance of Ryzen 5 9600X. This was already expected since the processor has the same 6-core/12-thread configuration, the same 32 MB of L3 cache, and the same TDP of 65W by default. The difference is in the clocks, where the Ryzen 9600 is 100 MHz slower at the base and 200 MHz slower in the boost clock compared to the 9600X.
As one of the early benchmarks showed, the Ryzen 9600 is pretty close to the 9600X in both single and multithreaded performance and this is due to the difference in clock speeds. The latest PassMark CPU tests reveal 29,369 points in multithreaded and 4,433 points in single-threaded performance. Remember that there have been only 4 samples tested on the site and the more it gets tested, the more accurate the final results will be.
As for comparison, the Ryzen 9600X scores 30,016 and 4,581 points respectively, making the 9600 lose by -2.2 and -3.2% margins, respectively. Of course, the performance gap can be shrunk through overclocking the Ryzen 9600, but the 9600X can be overclocked as well. Compared to its predecessor, the Ryzen 5 7600, the Ryzen 5 9600 is around 8.5% faster in multithreaded and 13.4% faster in single-threaded performance. This is a decent uplift compared to what we had going from Ryzen 5 7600X to Ryzen 5 9600X.
The pricing is going to be similar, with US prices expected to stick around $200 since the Ryzen 9600X is available at sub-$250 most of the time. The Ryzen 5 9600 may not be very appealing to gamers, but an X3D variant will surely be. It's not officially announced yet, but previous reports indicated that AMD might prepare a Ryzen 5 9600X3D that will replace the Ryzen 5 7600X3D but might limit itself to a few retailers.
As far as more non-X SKUs are concerned, typically AMD does release non-X variants later and hasn't stopped releasing newer processors for the AM4 platform. It's expected that AMD might release a new batch sooner or later, comprising CPUs like the Ryzen 9700, 9900, and 9950. The X3D variants are already out, so AMD is probably done with those.
News Source: @x86deadandblack
