AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X Review: Retaking The High-End
by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on September 26, 2022 9:00 AM ESTCPU Benchmark Performance: Legacy Tests
In order to gather data to compare with older benchmarks, we are still keeping a number of tests under our ‘legacy’ section. This includes all the former major versions of CineBench (R15, R11.5, R10) as well as Geekbench 4 and 5. We won’t be transferring the data over from the old testing into Bench, otherwise, it would be populated with 200 CPUs with only one data point, so it will fill up as we test more CPUs like the others.
We are using DDR5 memory on the Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X, as well as Intel's 12th Gen (Alder Lake) processors at the following settings:
- DDR5-5200 CL44- Ryzen 7000
- DDR5-4800 (B) CL40 - Intel 12th Gen
All other CPUs such as Ryzen 5000 and 3000 were tested at the relevant JEDEC settings as per the processor's individual memory support with DDR4.
Legacy
In our fabled and older school selection of benchmarks passed their 'sell by date', the Ryzen 9 7950X wins in every one of these tests, both single-threaded and multi-threaded. In the purely single-threaded tests, the Ryzen 5 7600X is the next best, although it is more in line with the Ryzen 7 5800X as we've consistently seen in our multi-threaded results all throughout this review.
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Freeb!rd - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
This paragraph reads like someone having a stroke while writing it..."Although this is overridable through manually overclocking with a maximum TJ Max of up to 115°C, it’s key tovitalte that users will need to use more premium and aggressive cooling types to squeeze every last drop of performance from ZAMD intended thistended when designing Zen 4, and as such, has opted not to bundls own CPU coolers with the retail packages."
and someone's spell checker is broken. Reply
gryer7421 - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
It reads like a GTP-3 BOT .... :( ReplyThreska - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
We now know "Zencally " is a word. ReplyGavin Bonshor - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Hi, yeah something screwy happened, but it's fixed now. Apologies. I think it may be time to update to a new system, and software. This isn't the first time it's jumbled stuff up for me. ReplyCow86 - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
I wish I could say that all the errors in the article are fixed, but that very paragraph even still has several (big) errors in it... A missing letter is one thing, half a sentence just missing and going into the next is another. Replyherozeros - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Keep the copy editor awake, or fire them. Grammar/syntax/CMS error, it doesn't matter if it gives me a headache reading this. ReplyRyan Smith - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Unfortunately we're having to do this kind of live. It's been a very busy past two weeks and we haven't had as much time to prepare as we like. So most of what you're seeing is first-draft copy, which I'll get around to editing as I can.Digital publications do not employ dedicated copy editors any more. They have all been let go for cost efficiency reasons. Reply
flyingpants265 - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
What? Come on now. ReplyHifihedgehog - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
@flypants265: It's kind of like Microsoft who got rid of their QA team and made all of their developers honorary QA tests. They can't help it that their leadership is being stupid. Don't blame Ryan or Gavin. Blame these greedy cheapskates that likewise didn't want to pay Ian Cutress enough to want to stay. ReplyHifihedgehog - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
*QA testers Reply