Published: September 26, 2022 | Source: AMD | Author: Tom Logan

AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 9 7950X Review

Test Setup

As always here at OC3D when there is a move to a new platform we have taken the opportunity to refresh both our test system and the things that we are using to benchmark. Naturally this means that some of our new tests will have fewer results than some of the others, but given how rapidly the market has moved forwards it’s fair to say that anything older than the last generation is going to be left in the dust. Clock speed only gets you so far after all.

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Hero
G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 4800 32GB
Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti
Patriot Viper VP4100 NVMe
BeQuiet Silent Base 802 Case
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 12 1200W PSU
BeQuiet Silent Loop 2 360
BeQuiet Silent Wings Pro Fans
Windows 11

And here it all is together. Mmm lovely.

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Are we sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin.

Clock Speeds

It’s not that the 5000 series was in any way deficient in performance, but if there was a slight chink in it’s armour it was the peak boost clock speeds. This was an area where the AMD rival had a bit of a lead. With the new Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 series though that chink has been ironed out. 5.5 GHz out of the box on the 7700X and it’s just as happy there with an all core overclock. The Ryzen 9 7950X is, if anything, more impressive with a bananas 5.84 GHz when left to its own devices and 5.5 GHz on all cores. We think there is even more to come but board and BIOS limitations – the downside to necessary pre-release testing – topped us out there. Hardly slow though.

Ryzen 7 7700X

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