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

Hitman 3, switches its hierarchy at 1440p compared to 1080p. Now, the AMD Ryzen 7000 processors are tangibly quicker than the Core i9-12900K in terms of average frame rates. But the Intel processor continues to show excellent 1% low performance that beats both of the Zen 4 parts by a considerable margin.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is basically the same across the fastest cohort of gaming processors – the Ryzen 7000 chips, Ryzen 7 5800X3D, and Core i9-12900K.

And there isn’t much to differentiate between any of these chips in Watch Dogs Legion at 1440p, particularly when accounting for run-to-run variations.

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