AMD Ryzen 7000 Series – The ULTIMATE Guide!

Performance

So what about performance, and how will things compare to the the current gen lineup? Well, we all know that AMD love to talk about single core performance, and multi-core performance for differing reasons. One comes down to the gaming, and one comes down to hardcore multitasking through creation and productivity and in typical AMD fashion, they love the acronym IPC or instructions per clock.

We all know that Ryzen 5000 saw a huge IPC uplift compared to the generation before, and through lots of hard work, AMD have managed to introduce a similar gain again, with a 13% uplift in IPC on single core performance over the last generation.

Through a fixed core frequency of 4GHz on the 8 core, 16 thread skus on both Zen 3 and Zen 4, they were keen to show this performance uplift across a variety of software applications and games. While some gave smaller increases than others, we did see some of the hottest games of the last year including FarCry 6, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and F1 22 pushing between 12% and 19% increases when looking at the geomean.

AMD also claimed upto 29% total single core performance gain when compared to Ryzen 5000, which while that sounds impressive, it’s mainly down to the boost frequency that the range now has, due to the new architecture and of course, now being manufactured on the new 5 nanometre process node, compared to 7 nanometre that we saw on the Ryzen 5000 series.

AMD also showed both gaming performance and creator performance at 1080p on both the 7950X and the 5950X to show again, that they have the best processor on the market, and while numbers are always nice to see, when looking at the games tested being DOTA 2, Shadow of the tomb raider, Borderlands 3 and CSGO, I think you’re best off waiting for the likes of us review folk to test it and show you what it can do in titles that matter. Also, what GPU was being used for these tests? There’s still so many unanswered questions.

Now, comparing performance to performance when looking at each generation is one thing, but what I was keen to see was the performance when compared to the 12th generation processors from Intel, because we all know that is where the competition is at and with 13th gen coming and that’s what really matters.

One way that AMD wanted to show that they had the upper hand compared to Intel was in V-Ray, where they showed a gain in performance of over 62% when compared to the Intel 12900K. I mean, that’s impressive, but what happened to Cinebench? This was something that was typically used in the past. What I’m trying to get at, and I’m not accusing AMD of it, but cherry picking titles that make your product look great is easy. Everyone does it, so again, I’d advise waiting to see what us and other reviewers come up in a variety of tests so that you have a better picture presented to you.