The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 7600 Review: Zen 4 Efficiency at 65 Watts
by Gavin Bonshor on January 9, 2023 9:00 AM ESTGaming Performance: 4K
Last, we have our 4K gaming results.
We are using DDR5 memory on the Ryzen 7000 series 65 W SKUs, as well as the other Ryzen 7000 processors tested, at the following settings:
- DDR5-5600B CL46 - Intel 13th Gen
- 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
Grand Theft Auto V
Red Dead Redemption 2
F1 2022
Hitman 3
Total War: Warhammer 3
We noticed some discrepancies in our Cyberpunk 2077 testing at 1440p and 4K; we will publish these results once we identify the issue. We plan to re-test the affected CPUs over the coming week and will update this review with the aforementioned graphs when/if we can resolve the issue.
Much like our results at 1440p, 4K is a very GPU-dependent resolution, shown in our testing. The only actual variance in results came in our Civilization VI testing, a CPU-intensive turn-based strategy. Despite this, all three Ryzen 7000 65 W processors performed well, surpassing much beefier and power-hungrier chips such as the Ryzen 9 5950X and Intel 12th Gen Core chips we tested.
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iRacer - Wednesday, February 1, 2023 - link
How do you get V-Ray benchmark values which are 35 to 50% higher than anything that can be seen on the results page?What version of the benchmark are you using?
leavenfish - Sunday, February 5, 2023 - link
Ummm....don't think he ever did the testing update he said he would try to do (but was busy) the weekened after the article came out?Gavin Bonshor - Monday, February 6, 2023 - link
It's coming, don't worry.Gavin Bonshor - Monday, February 6, 2023 - link
It isn't the latest iteration. It's the previous version (4). The critical area to consider is the consistency of the results within the same version.Of course, we will update this benchmark in our next wave to the latest version. If we did this for every benchmark, I would spend 100% of my time testing and 0% writing.
blueryu - Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - link
I'd like to know the idle power consumption of the CPUs. Apparently there is quite a difference at idle between the latest AMD and Intel options but can't seem to find much in the way of tests.