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AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X Review: Retaking The High-End

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DDR5 Ryzen 7 7700 DDR5 memory scaling review

You've likely just read our Ryzen 7000 reviews. and will have noticed that AMD calls DDR5 6000MHz /30CL a sweet spot. It, however might not be a sweet spot for your wallet, ergo we take a look at how...

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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X review

The year is 2022, and the Ryzen iteration ZEN4 has arrived. in this review, we test and benchmark the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. Loaded with 16 CPU cores on that updated processor architecture and an entirel...

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X review

We have 8 cores and sixteen threads available with ther Zen4 based Ryzen 7 7700X review. We'll analyze, test, and benchmark the processor. It might become a sweet spot processor given its great perfo...

www.guru3d.com

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Review - Affordable Zen 4 for Gaming

Ryzen 5 7600X is the company's most affordable offering for the Zen 4 family. Our review of the 7600X confirms that this new $300 CPU offers huge performance gains over Zen 3, and can even beat the Ryzen 5800X3D in gaming. In applications, the 7600X is faster than the Intel Core i9-11900K.

www.techpowerup.com

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Review - The Best Zen 4 for Gaming

With the Ryzen 7 7700X, AMD is introducing their fastest Zen 4 processor for gamers. In our review we found out that gaming on the 7700X runs better than the 7900X and 7950X, thanks to the single CCD design of the 7700X. Just like on other high-end AM5 CPUs, temperatures are a problem though.

www.techpowerup.com

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Review - Creator Might, Priced Right

The Ryzen 9 7900X is a creator's dream. It offers 12-cores and 24-threads that perform fantastic not only in highly-threaded workloads, but single-threaded performance is also there. Priced at $550 it sits right in the middle between Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 7 7700X.

www.techpowerup.com

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Review - Impressive 16-core Powerhouse

The Ryzen 9 7950X is a monster CPU. When paired with the right workload it will eat even the 12900K for breakfast. As our review shows, the performance uplifts can be massive: +30-50% gen-over-gen is totally possible. What makes things complicated though, is that keeping the beast cool is almost...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[VAVA Mk2]

TL DR?

 

[Jennings]

TL DR?

You get what you pay for.

 

[winjer]

 

[winjer]

AMD claims that 95Cº is safe for these CPUs, but damn, these are some toasty boys.
In gaming it's not so bad. But if applications that push all cores, it can get really warm.

 

[Fake]

Hope Digital Foundry can look at this.

 

[winjer]

Hope Digital Foundry can look at this.

Plenty of hardware reviewers that do a better job at it, than Digital Foundry.

 

[Fake]

Plenty of hardware reviewers that do a better job at it, than Digital Foundry.

I guess is a matter of confidence. I watch others reviewers as well.

 

[winjer]

I guess is a matter of confidence. I watch others reviewers as well.

DF reviews are somewhat basic. And they tend to make some mistakes.

 

[jaysius]

AMD claims that 95Cº is safe for these CPUs, but damn, these are some toasty boys.
In gaming it's not so bad. But if applications that push all cores, it can get really warm.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

AMD claims that 95Cº is safe for these CPUs, but damn, these are some toasty boys.
In gaming it's not so bad. But if applications that push all cores, it can get really warm.

 

[jaysius]

Now lets get some stats on RDNA 3 cards you cowards.

 

[winjer]

Now lets get some stats on RDNA 3 cards you cowards.

November 3rd.

 

[winjer]

der8auer delidded one of CPUs, used liquid metal and direct contact, and managed to get temperatures down by more than 20ºc.

 

[hlm666]

Good luck with rdna3, the GN review said the 7950x is using double the power of the 5950x (120 vs 250). I havn't got to performance uplift yet but wanna be good for double power.

edit: 26% more performance for double the power use and temp pinned at 95c. Not sure with the increased cost on mobo and ram to get here this is great. Kinda feels like an Intel release.

 

[Skifi28]

It feels pretty meh. Not that the CPUs are bad or anything, but they basically held back on giving us something truly great so they can re-release them later as 3D which is going to be the CPU to get for gaming. Making a big leap and then going back to doing things the old way for your supposed next generation product is lame from a consumer standpoint.

 

[fermcr]

My next CPU will likely be a Ryzen 7600 or Intel 13600. The best one gets my vote...

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Ryzen 7 7700X ‘Zen 4’ Review - KitGuru

AMD launched its Ryzen 5000 – Zen 3 – desktop processors back in late 2020. Coupled with the venerab

www.kitguru.net

For gaming above 1080p there’s barely any difference between high end CPUs.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Also, everybody talks so much about the insane TDP numbers, but have a look at average power consumption while gaming:

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 7 7700X Review with gaming and workstation benchmarks- A new era begins with Zen 4 an the new Socket AM5 | Page 10 | igor´sLAB

AMD let us release tests of the four new Zen 4 CPUs today in the form of the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X. We have already reported about it for a long time…

www.igorslab.de

 

[killatopak]

More power?

Sad EU noises.

 

[Black_Stride]

So 12 gen Intel still killing it?
I told people that AMDs 7600X is a banger vs the 12900K was just clever wording.
They werent actually gonna completely walk 12th gen.

13th gen even with a minor minor uplift in performance will easily take the crown they never lost back.

Still waiting on those X3D chips though.
Im almost certainly going DDR5 for my next full build.
So whichever chip gives me bang for buck gets my money.

Being able to buy a year old Mother Board and a 13700 base is very tempting though.
Overclocking CPUs is practically pointless these days, and i dont memory overclock either so the base i7 is looking very tempting.

Just price them correct Intel.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Scan haven't dropped the prices on 5000 yet so still waiting.

 

[Insane Metal]

Wccf seems to really like Zen 4.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Good luck with rdna3, the GN review said the 7950x is using double the power of the 5950x (120 vs 250). I havn't got to performance uplift yet but wanna be good for double power.

edit: 26% more performance for double the power use and temp pinned at 95c. Not sure with the increased cost on mobo and ram to get here this is great. Kinda feels like an Intel release.

See my above post. Rendering and synthetic benchmarks (where they max out all cores/threads) are a MUCH different workload than gaming.

For real-world gaming scenarios, Ryzen 7000 (and Intel 12th gen) consume less power and deliver more performance than their previous generation equivalents.

 

[winjer]

If anyone wanted more reviews....

AMD Ryzen 7000 Zen4 "Raphael" Desktop CPU Review Roundup | VideoCardz.com

AMD Ryzen 7000, Featured, News, Review Roundup AMD Ryzen 7000 series tested Today, AMD lifts the embargo on Ryzen 7000 reviews. AMD Ryzen 7000 Reviews Media AMD CPU Model 4Gamer Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9

videocardz.com

 

[00_Zer0]

I guess is a matter of confidence. I watch others reviewers as well.

You can trust people like Steve from Gamers Nexus, and the Hardware Unboxed crew. Both video reviews from them are in the OP.

 

[Ellery]

Ah shit I was hoping for the 5800X3D to drop in price after they are releasing Zen4, but looks like the 7000 series is worse than I expected it to be.

 

[hlm666]

Overclocking CPUs is practically pointless these days, and i dont memory overclock either so the base i7 is looking very tempting.

It's pointless on these cpus, they straight up run to the thermal limit. You might be able to get something out of it with undervollting cores to get a little more bang for your thermal limit but hardly worth it.

ee my above post. Rendering and synthetic benchmarks (where they max out all cores/threads) are a MUCH different workload than gaming.

For real-world gaming scenarios, Ryzen 7000 (and Intel 12th gen) consume less power and deliver more performance than their previous generation equivalents.

the 7950x is using more than the the 5950x in your image and the 5800x3d is using less power than the 7700x (seeing there is no 5700x to compare against)

 

[ResilientBanana]

So, AMD has caught up to Intel's 12th gen performance at 10nm with their own 5nm process, meanwhile, Intel's 13th gen is on it's way, still 10nm and will more than likely come out on top.

 

[Larogue]

TL DR?

Insanely fast in productivity.
But the power draw is almost double.
Also 5800X3D beats Zen 4 in many gaming benchmarks.

 

[Black_Stride]

It's pointless on these cpus, they straight up run to the thermal limit. You might be able to get something out of it with undervollting cores to get a little more bang for your thermal limit but hardly worth it.

Pretty much.
The same with GPUs honestly.


The fun of overclocking for me is actually the opposite as now I try to lower voltages to try and gain or atleast NOT lose performance.
Actually alot more fun seeing how low a chip can go and still perform the same.

Memory OC'ing is still actually quite interesting but fuck it, im too old and too lazy.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

My hot take is that it’s a good CPU but kinda boring from a gaming perspective.

If you’ve already got an AM4 platform, might as well just get a 5800X3D and call it a day.

If you’re in the market for a new platform (new motherboard + DDR5), makes a lot more sense to wait for Intel 13th gen + the 3D VCache Zen4 and choose between those.

 

[Insane Metal]

So, AMD has caught up to Intel's 12th gen performance at 10nm with their own 5nm process, meanwhile, Intel's 13th gen is on it's way, still 10nm and will more than likely come out on top.

Actually, AMD has smashed Intel's 12th Gen except for gaming.

 

[Larogue]

So, AMD has caught up to Intel's 12th gen performance at 10nm with their own 5nm process, meanwhile, Intel's 13th gen is on it's way, still 10nm and will more than likely come out on top.

Yeah but the Intel CPU is drawing 300W to achieve near (more like less) the performance level of Zen 4.

From LTT

 

[winjer]

So, AMD has caught up to Intel's 12th gen performance at 10nm with their own 5nm process, meanwhile, Intel's 13th gen is on it's way, still 10nm and will more than likely come out on top.

Intel 7 process node.

Besides, AMD did manage to surpass Intel in IPC, marginally.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Keep your AM4 board and buy a 5800X3D.

 

[winjer]

Keep your AM4 board and buy a 5800X3D.

That is exactly what I'm going to do. Just waiting to see if there are some nice deals on the next Black Friday.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Gamers Nexus....250 watt power draw, more than the 12900K in their testing...WOW!

95 degrees C is crazy. What happened with these current CPUs and TDP and heat.

 

[Black_Stride]

Yeah but the Intel CPU is drawing 300W to achieve near (more like less) the performance level of Zen 4.

From LTT

Ahh Prime95 that program literally no one uses.

These tests are fully academic, cuz no one is actually gonna be running Prime95 to do anything.

In a gaming system power consumption isnt that drastic.
And even if you are CPU rendering (you really shouldnt be GPU rendering is amazing these days) you arent running much hotter/higher voltages.

 

[Larogue]

Intel 7 process node.

Besides, AMD did manage to surpass Intel in IPC, marginally.

Intel 7 is a recent marketing rebrand from what's always been known as Intel 10nm.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Actually, AMD has smashed Intel's 12th Gen except for gaming.

Good thing we're on a gaming forum.

 

[winjer]

Gamers Nexus....250 watt power draw, more than the 12900K in their testing...WOW!

95 degrees C is crazy. What happened with these current CPUs and TDP and heat.

AMD, Intel and NVidia are all pushing clocks as high as they can, to leave no performance on the table.
Power consumption doesn't scale linearly with clock speeds. It's closer to a geometric increase.

There is also the issue with smaller die size. As chips get smaller with new process nodes, the contacta area with cooler or shim, gets smaller, and this limits heat transfer.
It also seems like the HIS on these Zen4 CPUs might be a limiting factor. Delidding might become an important factor for enthusiasts with Zen4.

 

[Black_Stride]

Good thing we're on a gaming forum.

Word.
Tis why the 12400F is still a king of the hill in terms of bang for buck CPUs.
We are gaming side, we dont really care about Prime95.
But in gaming the 12400F and 5800X3D are pretty much golden children.

When AMD eventually releases 7800X3D it will probably take the crown as best gaming CPU.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Looks solid and will make the wait for the 3d variant easier.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

As someone who’s been dying to play Civilization 6 at 4K 180FPS w/ minimum graphics setting, 7950x looks like the CPU for me.

Thanks, Anandtech!!

 

[FingerBang]

Word.
Tis why the 12400F is still a king of the hill in terms of bang for buck CPUs.
We are gaming side, we dont really care about Prime95.
But in gaming the 12400F and 5800X3D are pretty much golden children.

When AMD eventually releases 7800X3D it will probably take the crown as best gaming CPU.

This.

You shouldn't compare these CPU to the 5800X3D series, but to the 5000 in general.

The 3D series is coming and they'll be the real benchmark vs Intel.

 

[winjer]

Looks solid and will make the wait for the 3d variant easier.

And it's probably not too long to wait for.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D: Zen 4 V-Cache CPU should launch early in Q1 2023

AMD's second-generation 3D V-Cache arrives after the first wave of Zen 4-powered Ryzen 7000 series, expect a tease soon, Zen 4 V-Cache launches Q1 2023.

www.tweaktown.com

 

[Dirk Benedict]

der8auer delidded one of CPUs, used liquid metal and direct contact, and managed to get temperatures down by more than 20ºc.

Fuck, that's awesome. I was thinking of going this route with liquid cooling, in the future. Should I upgrade.

 

[I Master l]

Interested to see how fast the Zen 4 AVX512 implementation compared to Alder Lake, Someone should test RPCS3 on those CPUs

 

[Neo_game]

Not sure if these are the expected results everyone was hoping for. Once Intel release their CPU we can compare. I think 13600K is going to hurt AMD pretty bad.