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AMD Ryzen 9 7900 Review - Impressive Efficiency
Synthetic Benchmarks »Test Setup
- All applications, games, and processors are tested with the drivers and hardware listed below—no performance results were recycled between test systems.
- All games and applications are tested using the same version.
- All games are set to their highest quality setting unless indicated otherwise.
| Test System "Zen 4" | |
|---|---|
| Processor: | All AMD Ryzen 7000 processors |
| Motherboard: | ASUS X670E Crosshair Hero BIOS 9922 |
| Memory: | 2x 16 GB DDR5-6000 36-36-36-76 Infinity Fabric @ 2000 MHz |
| Graphics: | PNY GeForce RTX 4090 XLR8 |
| Storage: | Neo Forza NFP065 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD |
| Air Cooling: | Noctua NH-U14S |
| Water Cooling: | Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 mm |
| Thermal Paste: | Arctic MX-5 |
| Power Supply: | Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1200 W ATX 3.0 |
| Software: | Windows 11 Professional 64-bit 22H2 VBS enabled (Windows 11 default) |
| Drivers: | NVIDIA GeForce 528.02 WHQL Ryzen Chipset Drivers 5.02.16.347 |
| Test System "Raptor Lake & Alder Lake" | |
|---|---|
| Processor: | All Intel 13th & 12th Generation processors |
| Motherboard: | ASUS Z790 Maximus Hero BIOS 0813 |
| Memory: | 2x 16 GB DDR5-6000 36-36-36-76 2T / Gear 2 |
| All other specifications same as above | |
| Test System "Zen 3 & Zen 2" | |
|---|---|
| Processor: | All AMD Ryzen 5000 & Ryzen 3000 processors |
| Motherboard: | ASUS X570 Crosshair VII Dark Hero BIOS 4201 |
| Memory: | 2x 16 GB DDR4-3600 14-14-14-34 1T Infinity Fabric @ 1800 MHz 1:1 |
| Drivers: | Ryzen Chipset Drivers 4.08.09.2337 |
| All other specifications same as above | |
| Test System "Rocket Lake" | |
|---|---|
| Processor: | All Intel 11th Generation processors |
| Motherboard: | ASUS Z590 Maximus XIII Hero BIOS 1701 |
| Memory: | 2x 16 GB DDR4-3600 14-14-14-34 1T Gear 1 |
| All other specifications same as above | |
| Test System "Zen 1" | |
|---|---|
| Processor: | All AMD Ryzen 2000 processors |
| Motherboard: | ASUS X570 Crosshair VII Dark Hero BIOS 4201 |
| Memory: | 2x 16 GB DDR4-3400 14-14-14-34 1T |
| All other specifications same as above | |
| Test System "Comet Lake" | |
|---|---|
| Processor: | All Intel 10th Generation processors |
| Motherboard: | ASUS Z490 Maximus XII Extreme BIOS 2601 |
| Memory: | 2x 16 GB DDR4-3600 14-14-14-34 1T |
| All other specifications same as above | |
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