AMD Ryzen 7000 Series – The ULTIMATE Guide!

Processors

Ok, so socket and motherboards out the way. The reason you’re here in the first place comes down to the CPU’s themselves. Now, a total of 4 processors were announced for launch, which will come on September 27th, for a range of users and budgets alike. These are the worlds first 5 nanometer desktop CPUs and one thing that I found the most interesting, is that all processors being launched, of which more will come at a later date, now feature integrated graphics as standard.

Maybe with the fact that AMD’s new 7000 GPUs are coming later on, they simply wanted a way of grabbing customers with the hope that they’d buy their graphics solutions at a later date, instead of swarming to the competition, or maybe they just simply found a way to put this feature into their processors in a discrete manner, while not taking away from the core performance of the CPUs.

So with 4 models launch on September 27th, there seems to be something for everyone. Starting with the Ryzen 5 7600X, offering up 6 cores, and 12 threads at a base clock of 4.7GHz. Boosting upto 5.3GHz and with a TDP of 105 watts, it does sound like this could be the new value for money king, especially as it’s price point of $299, which admittedly is more than what the 5600X came in at for launch, but if the IPC improvements that AMD are talking about is anything to go by, it may just be worth it. In terms of the cache, the 7600X comes with 6MB of L2 cache and 32MB of L3 cache.

Moving up the stack to the Ryzen 7 7700X is where we find 8 cores, and 16 threads operating at 4.5GHz, with a boost clock of up to 5.4GHz. It features a slightly beefier cache of 8MB L2, while keeping the same 32MB of L3 cache and the same TDP of 105 watts as the Ryzen 5. Pricing wise, the Ryzen 7 will come in at $399 dollars US which again, is $100 more than its predecessor.

Moving further up again, and things start to get very serious with the Ryzen 9 7900X coming in with 12 cores and a whopping 24 threads running at 4.7GHz on the base clock and up to 5.6GHz on the boost clock. The cache has been significantly bumped up on this one with 12MB of L2 cache and a stonking 64MB of L3 cache. Along with these impressive numbers, the TDP sits at 170 watts, which while it sounds high, it’s still lower than the maximum turbo power of the 12700k from Intel. One area where it does break the mould comes down to the price, as it’s actually launching with the same $549 launch price as the 5900X did back in 2020.

And finally, the beast, the daddy, the flagship, 7950X, which is coming sporting 16 cores, 32 threads, and a base speed of 4.5GHz, while the boost, which is something AMD were keen to shout about, goes up to 5.7GHz. The cache has been dialled up to 11, with 16MB of L2 cache and 64MB of L3 cache. It comes in with the same TDP of 170 watts, which again, is much lower than the max turbo tdp of Intel’s flagship 12900K, though specs on the 13900k are still yet to be seen. Pricing wise, AMD have come in hard at $699 USD, which compared to the 5950X when that launched, is actually a saving of $100 though compared to current pricing, it does demand a premium.