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 ESTGaming Performance: 1080p
All of our game testing results, including other resolutions, can be found in our benchmark database: www.anandtech.com/bench. All gaming tests were with an RTX 2080 Ti.
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.
Civilization VI
World of Tanks
Borderlands 3
Far Cry 5
Grand Theft Auto V
Red Dead Redemption 2
Strange Brigade (DirectX 12)
Strange Brigade (Vulcan)
Despite modern-day graphics cards, especially the flagships, now at the level where 1440p and 4K gaming is viable, 1080p is still a very popular resolution to play games at; I have a 1440p 144Hz monitor and I play at 1080p just because that's what I'm used to.
Touching on 1080p performance with our RTX 2080 Ti, both Ryzen 7000 series chips do brilliantly in Civilization VI, as well as in World of Tanks. Over the rest of our games benchmarks (while we're testing our new ones which we will publish as soon as we're ready), performance isn't as impressive as maybe users would be expecting from a next-generation processor.
One could argue that our NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080ti is somewhat aging and out of date, which is why we've upgraded our CPU 2023 suite with AMD Radeon RX 6950XT graphics cards. These results will be published once we've collated enough results and data points, so check back.
Summarizing 1080p performance with our current CPU 2021 suite, the Ryzen 7000 series is very competitive in gaming at 1080p, and where the CPU is required to churn more so without any bottlenecks, the Ryzen 7000's do come into their own.
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RomanPixel - Tuesday, September 27, 2022 - link
Me too! Replykmalyugin - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Wow, this article is almost unreadable. Was spellchecker turned off? Replyjonkullberg - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Gaming benchmarks with DDR5-6000 CL30 please! ReplyBushLin - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Exactly Replyxol - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
wtf am I reading (context a part with tdp up to 170W from 105W) :"This has been possible through superior power efficiency, as Zencally a Zen 3 refinement, but on the new TSMC 5 nm process node (from TSMC 7 nm). This efficiency has allowed AMD to increase the overall TDP to 170 W from the previous 105 W but without too much penalty."
I can't even .. "too much penalty" ??
.. Looks like Zen has reached the end of the road imo (it had a good run) - none of the improvements here are from AMD - new DDR5, new 5nm node. The rest is "increase clocks/tdp" just like when Intel was stuck on 14nm.
I just don't know where they are going from here Reply
Threska - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Well we have " While Ryzen 7000 can drive a 2 DPC/4 DIMM setup, you’re going to lose 31% of your memory bandwidth if you go that route. So for peak performance, it’ll be best to treat Ryzen 7000 as a 1 DPC platform." and " Unfortunately, the compatibility situation is essentially unchanged from the AM4 platform, which is to say that while the CPU supports ECC memory, it’s going to be up to motherboard manufacturers to properly validate it against their boards.". The memory situation seems like a sticking point for a good while till things mature. ReplyBushLin - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Did you read the article? Put it in eco mode (105W for a 170W part) and it still stomps over everything in MT performance. Zen 4 is more about platform improvements, Zen 5 will be the microarchitecture overhaul. ReplyBushLin - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Stomping everything at 65W even! Replyxol - Tuesday, September 27, 2022 - link
Impressed that it's nominally $100 cheaper than a 5950X .Got to admit that. Replyxol - Tuesday, September 27, 2022 - link
Eco mode does perform better eg cinebench- b maybe +23% compared to 5950X, but it's using DDR5 5200 vs DDR4-3200 (?), and the power advantage can be assumed to come from 5nmMy original point still stands for me- 90% of benefits are from node and memory and allowing clocks as high as Tjunction allows - I don't think that is a great showing for AMD Reply