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

When looking at a summary of 1080p gaming performance with Hitman 3 excluded, the new Ryzen 7000 series processors show a healthy improvement versus Ryzen 5000 in general. Of course, that’s excluding the special case of the 3D V-Cache-equipped Ryzen 7 5800X3D.

Intel’s 12^th Gen Core competitors are still tough for Ryzen 7000 to deal with, and they will often trade places in our chart.

It’s important to examine which games you are most interested in and how they perform on each CPU. As the Ryzen 7 5800X3D still tends to be the best gaming chip on a game-by-game basis, even if the data creating the relative performance chart doesn’t necessarily highlight that trend particularly clearly. This is mainly due to Far Cry 6 being such a performance hit for Zen 3 processors.

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