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AMD Zen 5 Storms into Gaming Desktops with Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" Processors

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The 7700 is a 65W TDP CPU that's barely slower than the 7700X.

That the 9700X is 65W just means that AMD decided it wasn't worth it to squeeze an extra 1-2% performance.

OR hear me out, OR more plausibly the 7700X was already barely a 65W chip and the advancements from 7k to 9k pushed the 9700X well under the 65? Wouldn't you think that wouldn't make more sense than AMD just being lazy?
 
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