Around 55% PC Users Find AMD Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5” CPUs To Be ‘Mediocre’, Reveals 3DCenter Poll

More people view AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs negatively than positively but the overall impression remains somewhat neutral.

Is the AMD Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" CPU series living up to the users' expectations? The poll suggests otherwise

3DCenter.org conducted a survey last month, giving users the option to choose from one of the options to reveal what people think about the recent AMD Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series launch. Even though it was a small survey, it does give us an insight into what most users think about the Zen 5 CPUs.

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Around 1000 people participated in the poll(977 users exact) and out of 11 provided options, more than half of them chose to be on the neutral side. The 11 options were divided into 'Positive', 'Average', and 'Negative', from which 55.2% of users chose the four 'Average' options. The most selected option was "Average first impression, primarily lacks a bit of more performance(purely in the gaming area)", which received 23% votes in total.

'Negative' was the second most popular feedback by the users with almost 23.7% votes, exceeding the 'Positive' voting of about 21.1%. The takeaway from this survey is that most users are unimpressed by the generational uplifts the Ryzen 9000 series brought to the table as evidenced by the most selected answer. Most users also think that the Ryzen 9000 CPUs primarily 'lacks a bit of more performance' including both gaming and productivity.

This has been the most common response of PC enthusiasts around the globe. However, about 14% of participants think that the Ryzen 9000 CPUs primarily lack performance in both gaming and productivity. 9% of the users also think that the prices are quite high if we compare it to the predecessors.

On the flip side, 12% of users think that the Ryzen 9000 CPUs look 'interesting' for purchase but another 5% of users who chose the Positive feedback think that the CPUs are a bit on the pricier