AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 14 August 2024 at 09:00 AM EDT. Page 8 of 15. 115 Comments.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of PBKDF2-sha512. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of PBKDF2-whirlpool. Core i9 14900K was the fastest.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of AES-XTS 256b Encryption. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of AES-XTS 256b Decryption. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of Twofish-XTS 256b Encryption. Ryzen 9 9900X was the fastest.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of Twofish-XTS 256b Decryption. Ryzen 9 9900X was the fastest.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of AES-XTS 512b Encryption. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of AES-XTS 512b Decryption. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of Twofish-XTS 512b Encryption. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.
Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of Twofish-XTS 512b Decryption. Ryzen 7 9700X was the fastest.

The cryptography performance with the Ryzen 9000 series is much better off than with prior Ryzen generations.

DuckDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: IMDB. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.
DuckDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: TPC-H Parquet. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.
DuckDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Clickbench. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.
ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, Third Run. Ryzen 9 9900X was the fastest.
PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Write. Ryzen 9 9900X was the fastest.
PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Write, Average Latency. Ryzen 9 9900X was the fastest.
PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Only. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.
PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Only, Average Latency. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.

The Ryzen 9 9900 series were performing very well -- and power efficient -- across a range of database workloads for those considering these 12-core or 16-core processors for budget servers.

Memcached benchmark with settings of Set To Get Ratio: 1:100. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.
Memcached benchmark with settings of Set To Get Ratio: 1:10. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.

The Memcached performance with the Ryzen 9 9900 series edged past the Intel Core 14th Gen competition.

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