AMD Ryzen 7 9700X CPU Review

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the megalopolis of Night City, where you play as a cyberpunk mercenary wrapped up in a do-or-die fight for survival. Improved and featuring all-new free additional content, customize your character and playstyle as you take on jobs, build a reputation, and unlock upgrades. The relationships you forge and the choices you make will shape the story and the world around you. Legends are made here. What will yours be?

Available now on Steam.

In Cyberpunk, there really isn’t much to say. In fact, the 7700X actually outperforms the 9700X by a single FPS, though with such a margin, we’d call it identical, and it goes to show that the extra 100MHz boost clock really doesn’t do anything from the new Ryzen 7 in this game, at least on these settings.

Changing the settings slightly by enabling Ray Tracing does have an effect though as the 9700X comes in with 88 frames per second, which is a marginal 6% improvement over its predecessor, though it’s still no match for the likes of the i7 14700K, which funnily enough, is the CPU that AMD were aiming to compete against with this new Zen 5 based chip.