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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TelstarTOS - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Too few games tested, no 1400p tests, no 7700X tested. Waiting for more ReplyGavin Bonshor - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
AMD only sampled us with the 7950X and 7600X. We'll hopefully get our 7700X in the near future. In regards to game testing, you'll much more/better titles in our next CPU review as we move to our 2023 suite. This will come into effect in our next CPU review. Replyrarson - Wednesday, September 28, 2022 - link
1400p? Replymeacupla - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
What I am seeing is 5800X3D being a beastWhich is why I really look forward to 7x00X3D chips Reply
Gavin Bonshor - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Me too! ReplyFreckledTrout - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Those should be really strong. Its probably AMD's answer to Intel's 13th gen. Replykwohlt - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
7000 3D is more so AMD's answer to MeteorLake, as both are expected sometime in 2023. Zen 4 is sometime in 2024 and will go up against ArrowLake.Vanilla 7000 and RaptorLake are direct competitors. Reply
kwohlt - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
****Zen 5 Replynandnandnand - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
https://www.theverge.com/23294064/intel-deny-meteo...Meteor Lake will come out in late 2023, if at all. 7000X3D sounds like it could launch in January. So 7000X3D will have free reign for the better part of a year. Reply
Lothyr - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Same, not to mention that it should give firmware time to stabilize, time to DDR5 to get cheaper, time for PCIe5 SSD to be released, etc. So I guess 6 months-ish before I upgrade (we'll see what Intel comes up with as well). Reply