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

1. Ryzen 7000 - Introducing Zen 4 and AM52. A Closer Look - AMD's Zen 4 Architecture3. A Closer Look - The AM5 Platform4. Testing Methodology5. Operating Clocks6. CPU Tests: Blender & Cinebench7. CPU Tests: Handbrake & 7-Zip8. Memory Tests: Memory Bandwidth and Latency9. Synthetic Gaming: 3DMark10. Gaming 1080p: ACV, BL3, F1 202111. Gaming 1080p: FC6, Hitman 3, SotTR, WDL12. Gaming 1080p - Relative Performance Summary13. Gaming 1440p - ACV, BL3, F1 2021, FC614. Gaming 1440p - Hitman 3, SotTR, WDL15. Gaming 1440p - Relative Performance Summary16. Technical: Power Draw17. Technical: Temperatures18. Overclocking19. Perf. Per Watt and £20. Zen 4 vs Zen 3 - Clock-for-Clock Comparison21. RDNA 2 Integrated GPU22. Closing Thoughts23. View All Pages

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla shows very little difference between all of these test chips when paired with a Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card. Ryzen 7000 does will with 1% low frame rates, but there’s very little in it. Other than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D opening up a slight lead versus everything else.

Borderlands 3 has the Ryzen 9 7950X roughly tying with the Core i9-12900K, neither of which can compete with AMD’s 3D V-Cache-equipped Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The Ryzen 7 7700X is a few frames behind the 12700K for average and 1% lows, but it does outperform the Ryzen 9 5900X by a similarly tight margin.

There isn’t too much to say with F1 2021; pretty much everything runs at ludicrously high average and 1% low frame rates. In fact, these numbers are all so high that there’s little value in even comparing 5-7 average FPS differences between the new Zen 4 chips and the 12900K or 5800X3D chart-toppers.

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