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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tuxRoller - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
When does an explanation become an excuse? ReplyUltraTech79 - Friday, September 30, 2022 - link
Well rehire them or youre going to see a real quality loss. Is it really worth it in the longrun? ReplyRyan Smith - Friday, September 30, 2022 - link
"Is it really worth it in the longrun?"That's a question for the people that pay the bills. It's not my call. Reply
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I agree that the paragraph was in need of some work, but "thinkos" happen, esp. with an article of this depth. I like that you reported it, but I wonder if it could have been worded differently. Imagine spending days aggressively writing a detailed analysis, only to have one's writing compared to a stroke victim because of a tiny percent of the article. ReplyJasonovich - Sunday, October 9, 2022 - link
Grammar fascism is distracting from the main body of the article. It's like the cream from your glass of Guinness pouring on to your fingers, no big deal just lick it off. The integrity of the article is intact and I'm sure the message was received loud and clear from Anandtech's spoof readers.Anyway many thanks for the excellent article, other sites don't try half as hard as the folks from Anandtech. Reply
philehidiot - Wednesday, September 28, 2022 - link
This sentence seems perfectly cromulent. I think the point purvulates nicely and is quite unfornitabulated. Replygryer7421 - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Hi, thanks for the article. In the future .. please start posting HIGHEST all-die TEMPS hit during each benchmark..It would be help to know and see the temps for building workstations given that INTEL and AMD both just uncorked the genie by not caring about temps anymore and only caring about ''top cou speed'' at ant (thermal) cost. Reply
Gavin Bonshor - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
With Zen 4, the highest all-die temp is essentially 95°C, due to the way Precision Boost Overdrive works. The idea is that it will use all over the available power/thermal headroom, so those with better CPU cooling, should technically benefit more. Reply