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One could argue that our NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080ti is somewhat aging and out of date, which is why we've upgraded our CPU 2023 suite with AMD Radeon RX 6950XT graphics cards.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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Iketh - Thursday, October 6, 2022 - link
why are you giving so much credit to ddr5? moving to new memory has always given very small gains (if any) in the beginningtjunction is an arbitrary number set by AMD, so using that as an argument is irrational Reply
xol - Tuesday, September 27, 2022 - link
..but my main criticism was of the article - eg phrases like " increase the overall TDP ... without too much penalty" doesn't really make any sense - increase TDP is the penaltyBut much of the article is written as if letting TDP go *much* higher is some sort of gift from AMD -eg the examples I gave
The article is full of nothin-burgers like this statement :
" We feel that the higher all-core frequencies under maximum load, 95°C is a sufficient level of heat for what is on offer when it comes to overall performance" Reply
kwrzesien - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Whomever was the last to edit the front page needs to disable the trackpad and clean their mouse ball! 🤣 ReplyThreska - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
"But now with AMD’s modern RDNA 2 graphics architecture and TSMC fabrication process, AMD has finally seen the (ray traced) light, and is building a small GPU block into the IOD to offer integrated graphics throughout the Ryzen 7000 product stack."I see things like SAM and HSA being a future trend.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/micr... Reply
erotomania - Wednesday, September 28, 2022 - link
Yes, AMD thought so too, in 2012...https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fusion-hsa-op...
and in 2014 here at AT...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/7677/amd-kaveri-rev...
Hopefully this time! Reply
nandnandnand - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
It seems that going up by 1 GHz didn't help it that much in gaming benchmarks.Meanwhile, the 65W results show that any Zen 4 and later APUs are going to be absurdly powerful. Especially Dragon Range. Reply
Josh128 - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Any way you guys can add the single core ECO mode results to the conclusion page or to the R23 results on its respective page? Replydonquixote42 - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Single threaded workload would not use more than 65W anyway. So performance should be the same in ECO and non-ECO mode. ReplyJosh128 - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
Still using a 2080Ti for the games testing is not good. Most certainly many of these results are GPU bound. Replysnowdrop - Monday, September 26, 2022 - link
No power consumption numbers? Will the article be updated with these when they're ready? Reply