AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

W1zzard · Sep 26, 2022

The Ryzen 9 7950X is a monster CPU. When paired with the right workload it will eat even the 12900K for breakfast. As our review shows, the performance uplifts can be massive: +30-50% gen-over-gen is totally possible. What makes things complicated though, is that keeping the beast cool is almost impossible.

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Arco · Sep 26, 2022

Vrooommmmm!

Toss · Sep 26, 2022

wtf. All we got is overclocked 5950x with lower efficiency.
5950x is 120W TDP and this monstrocity is 200W+ TDP everywhere.
I guess sticking with my 5950x until 2030 then.

ExcuseMeWtf · Sep 26, 2022

All hail the new king.

wtf. All we got is overclocked 5950x with lower efficiency.

Page 24 shows otherwise lol.

Xuper · Sep 26, 2022

hmm , gaming performance :confused:

jesdals · Sep 26, 2022

Well at my native game resolution at 7680x1440p the 7950x is simply not worth the upgrade over my current 5950x - but thats a good thing - then theres budget for a new GPU :cool:

Toss · Sep 26, 2022

ExcuseMeWtf said:
All hail the new king.

Page 24 shows otherwise lol.

cinebench MTT says no

Crackong · Sep 26, 2022

So we have the new fastest CPU right now

ExcuseMeWtf · Sep 26, 2022

Toss said:
cinebench MTT says no

And STT AND gaming say yes.

to001 · Sep 26, 2022

No wall power ?

Jism · Sep 26, 2022

Very neat. Just dial it in at 5Ghz and you have a winner for the next few years.

JustBenching · Sep 26, 2022

As I kept saying and people like Ratirl kept laughing, the 7950x is less efficient than the 5950x. Probably the same will apply to the whole zen 4 range. Yikes

TheLostSwede · Sep 26, 2022

Toss said:
cinebench MTT says no

Great real world application choice there...

SaLaDiN666 · Sep 26, 2022

lol Zen4 is the ultimate failure, the fastest gaming cpu my ass, slower than 1-year-old 12900k and 5800x3D.

You know now why you didn't get promised 5900x3D and 5950x3D. They would have buried this failure in gaming.

Can't wait for amdfanbois to come with another conspiracy, why they are again slow this time in gaming

Bios? Windows? Star constellations?

phanbuey · Sep 26, 2022

These are pushed way past efficiency. Really the undervolt looks amazing though. You lose almost nothing by shaving off 50W - in fact it's actually faster in some instances.

jesdals · Sep 26, 2022

I think we will see better results with better usage of DDR5 - but thats not a ground breaking or earth shattering start point

Pumper · Sep 26, 2022

Well, the trash power draw is no surprise after AMD said these will be 170W TDP. Wonder what the people who keep shitting on Intel over this will say now, lol.

Looks like I'll be hunting for a 5950X for an upgrade as Zen4 is is just not good enough in a lot of ways, especially for the entry price, or maybe I get a 13xxx as those will at least let me keep my RAM.

Zubasa · Sep 26, 2022

Jism said:
Very neat. Just dial it in at 5Ghz and you have a winner for the next few years.

Why do that when it runs over 5.2 Ghz all core under AVX?

JATownes · Sep 26, 2022

Good CPU, but not worth the upgrade costs for a new platform. I'll skip 7000 series and wait for the process to mature while X670 and DDR5 gain traction in the market and bring prices down.

If you are still on a Ryzen 1xxx, 2xxx or 3xxx with X470 or older board, it might make more sense, but if you are running a relatively high-end X570 with a 5000 chip, it is probably better to skip this generation. Avoid the early adopter tax and growing pains of the platform.

JAT

W1zzard · Sep 26, 2022

to001 said:
No wall power ?

Switched to chip only power after people kept complaining about wall power.

Honest question: what kind of wall power testing would you like to see, and why? and how does it improve the results vs chip-only?

Arco · Sep 26, 2022

JATownes said:
Good CPU, but not worth the upgrade costs for a new platform. I'll skip 7000 series and wait for the process to mature while X670 and DDR5 gain traction in the market and bring prices down.

If you are still on a Ryzen 1xxx, 2xxx or 3xxx with X470 or older board, it might make more sense, but if you are running a relatively high-end X570 with a 5000 chip, it is probably better to skip this generation. Avoid the early adopter tax and growing pains of the platform.

JAT

I have half a mind to go intel but if I do I'm going to have to buy a new motherboard anyways to upgrade the CPU. I'm also not too keen on moving to Windows 11 for the big little.

to001 · Sep 26, 2022

W1zzard said:
Switched to chip only power after people kept complaining about wall power.

Honest question: what kind of wall power testing would you like to see, and why? and how does it improve the results vs chip-only?

I mean the ram, Cooling, chipset all of these stack up must be pretty significant.

bastordd · Sep 26, 2022

This 7000 Series is a big failure for a normal consumer...
More eat, more watts less gaming performance... waste of money...
12900k and 5800 3D much better

BorisDG · Sep 26, 2022

What a disappointment for high-end gaming (1440p+)... very small improvement or even weaker than 12900K.

Chomiq · Sep 26, 2022

94C at stock. Ooooof.

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