AMD is back in full force with the Ryzen97950X, reclaiming the crown for the fastest CPU on the market.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X MSRP $700.00 Score Details DT Editors' Choice “Being the fastest is one thing. The Ryzen 9 7950X proves being the fastest by a huge margin is another.” Pros Cons AMD hasn’t released a new generation of processors in nearly two years, so to say the expectation for the Ryzen 9 7950X was high would be an understatement. After taking a backseat to Intel on the list of the best processors late last year, AMD is back. And it’s back with a vengeance.
The bigger change is the Zen 4 architecture, which uses chipmaker TSMC’s 5nm node. Its higher efficiency compared to the 7nm node in Ryzen 5000 promises a 30% reduction in power consumption at the same frequency. The performance situation, as you might suspect, is a lot more complicated than just the manufacturing process, however.
Performance If you had any doubts about the power of the Ryzen 9 7950X, you can put them to rest. Across the board, it posted the highest results out of any CPU I’ve tested, and sometimes by a significant margin. That’s best evidenced by Geekbench 5 and Cinebench R23, where the Ryzen 9 7950X beat out the multi-core performance of the Core i9-12900K by 30% and 36%, respectively.
The CPU market is always a balance of AMD and Intel leapfrogging each other, but AMD is showing with the Ryzen 9 7950X that it’s leading that performance charge. It’s not without competition, though. Intel is set to release its 13th-gen Raptor Lake processors in short order, which will likely bring the performance scales closer to balanced.
You’re looking at about 13% overall, but some games see a much higher uplift. In Forza Horizon 4, I measured nearly a 28% increase, for example, and Far Cry 6 resulted in a 33% increase. On the other end, GPU-limited games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2 showed minimal differences, which will completely disappear as you increase your resolution.
You could very reasonably play games like Rocket League just on the integrated graphics and have a great experience. Forza Horizon 4 stood out a lot, too. I was locked above 30 fps in the game, putting the integrated GPU somewhere above a base Xbox One. You wouldn’t want to game on the iGPU full time, but it works damn well as a stop-gap for a discrete GPU or to run lightweight games at lower resolutions.
It’s a bit concerning, but AMD says this totally expected. The Ryzen 9 7950X will hit a thermal wall before it hits a power wall, and the processor is designed to hit that thermal limit in intense multi-core workloads like Cinebench. AMD says you could run the processor 24/7 at this temperature without any risks of damaging or decreasing performance.
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