AMD introduced six new Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 processors for its AM5 platform right here at CES 2023 right this moment, with three new high-end Ryzen 7000X3D processors main the cost with the corporate’s revolutionary 3D V-Cache in chips that high out at an unbelievable 5.7 GHz. This now-proven tech ought to permit AMD to grab the highest spot in our record of finest CPUs for gaming and our CPU benchmark hierarchy from Intel’s potent Raptor Lake after they arrive in February.
The brand new high-performance AMD chips are available 8-, 16- and 24-core flavors, considerably increasing the lineup of 3D V-Cache chips over the only Ryzen 7 5800X3D mannequin that arrived with the first-gen chips. AMD claims explosive generational efficiency positive factors with these new chips, saying they may beat Intel’s quickest gaming chip by as much as 24% in some video games.
| Header Cell – Column 0 | Worth | Cores / Threads (P+E) | P-Core Base / Increase Clock (GHz) | Cache (L2/L3) | TDP / PBP / MTP |
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| Ryzen 9 7950X3D | ? | 16 / 32 | 4.2 / 5.7 | 144MB (16+128) | 120W / ? |
| Ryzen 9 7900X3D | ? | 12 / 24 | 4.4 / 5.6 | 140MB (12+132) | 120W / ? |
| Ryzen 9 7900 | $429 | 12 / 24 | ? / 5.3 | 76MB (12+64) | 65W / 88W |
| Ryzen 7 7800X3D | ? | 8 /16 | 4.x / 5.0 | 104MB (8+96) | 120W / ? |
| Ryzen 7 5800X3D | $358 | 8 /16 | 3.4 / 4.5 | 104MB (8+96) | 105W |
| Ryzen 7 7700 | $329 | 8 / 16 | ? / 5.3 GHz | 40MB (8+32) | 65W / 88W |
| Ryzen 5 7600 | $229 | 6 / 12 | ? / 5.1 GHz | 38MB (6+32) | 65W / 88W |
The high-performance X3D chips will come at a premium, however AMD additionally introduced three new 65W Ryzen 7000 “non-X” fashions that span the Ryzen 5 to Ryzen 9 households, thus offering a brand new decrease stage of entry to the AM5 platform to handle among the pricing points related to the corporate’s new AM5 platform. These chips will arrive on January 10. AMD shared loads of new particulars and benchmarks throughout its CES 2023 keynote; let’s dive in.
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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 7 7900X3D, Ryzen 7 7800X3D Specs
| Header Cell – Column 0 | Road/MSRP | Cores / Threads (P+E) | P-Core Base / Increase Clock (GHz) | E-Core Base / Increase Clock (GHz) | Cache (L2/L3) | TDP / PBP / MTP | Reminiscence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen 9 7950X3D | ? | 16 / 32 | 4.2 / 5.7 | 144MB (16+128) | 120W / ? | DDR5-5200 | |
| Core i9-13900K / KF | $589 (Okay) – $564 (KF) | 24 / 32 (8+16) | 3.0 / 5.8 | 2.2 / 4.3 | 68MB (32+36) | 125W / 253W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Ryzen 9 7950X | $569 ($699) | 16 / 32 | 4.5 / 5.7 | – | 80MB (16+64) | 170W / 230W | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 9 7900X3D | ? | 12 / 24 | 4.4 / 5.6 | 140MB (12+132) | 120W / ? | DDR5-5200 | |
| Ryzen 9 7900X | $474 ($549) | 12 / 24 | 4.7 / 5.6 | – | 76MB (12+64) | 170W / 230W | DDR5-5200 |
| Core i7-13700K / KF | $409 (Okay) – $384 (KF) | 16 / 24 (8+8) | 3.4 / 5.4 | 2.5 / 4.2 | 54MB (24+30) | 125W / 253W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Core i7-13700 / F | $384 – $359 (F) | 16 / 24 (8+8) | 2.1 / 5.2 | 1.5 / 4.1 | 54MB (24+30) | 65W / 219W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Ryzen 7 7800X3D | ? | 8 /16 | 4.x / 5.0 | 104MB (8+96) | 120W / ? | DDR5-5200 | |
| Ryzen 7 5800X3D | $358 ($449) | 8 /16 | 3.4 / 4.5 | 104MB (8+96) | 105W | DDR4-3200 | |
| Ryzen 7 7700X | $349 ($399) | 8 /16 | 4.5 / 5.4 | – | 40MB (8+32) | 105W / 142W | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 5 7600X | $249 ($299) | 6 / 12 | 4.7 / 5.3 | – | 38MB (6+32) | 105W / 142W | DDR5-5200 |
| Core i5-13600K / KF | $319 (Okay) – $294 (KF) | 14 / 20 (6+8) | 3.5 / 5.1 | 2.6 / 3.9 | 44MB (20+24) | 125W / 181W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
As a reminder, AMD’s 3D V-Cache is a revolutionary new tech that 3D-stacks a further SRAM chip vertically on high of the processor, thus boosting the L3 cache capability by 64MB and enabling explosive efficiency positive factors in gaming (productiveness workloads don’t profit). This tech debuted in AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the primary ‘X3D’ mannequin, which you’ll be able to learn the deep dive particulars about right here. Intel doesn’t have a comparable expertise, although it should quickly deliver the 6 GHz Core i9-13900KS to market in an try to carry onto its gaming crown.
AMD hasn’t shared pricing info for the brand new X3D chips, however says they may arrive in February. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D comes with 16 cores and 32 threads, marking a brand new excessive depend for the 3D V-Cache-equipped chips. In impact, this chip is merely a Ryzen 9 7950X with an additional L3 cache chiplet and extra tuning. As earlier than, the 3D-stacked SRAM L3 chip weighs in at 64MB, so the 7950X3D comes with a beastly 144MB of whole cache, with 128MB of that being gaming-boosting L3 cache. This chip will cope with Intel’s Core i9-13900K, and shortly the 6 GHz 13900KS mannequin.
AMD has spec’d the 3D V-Cache processors at a base TPD of 120W and a max 162W PPT, which is decrease than the usual 170W/230W threshold for the 7950X. That isn’t totally shocking, as the extra cache chiplet may end up in barely greater working temperatures. Nevertheless, AMD has considerably elevated the enhance speeds with the brand new X3D fashions. Because of this, the 7950X3D boosts to five.7 GHz, an enormous leap over the earlier gen 5800X3D’s peak of 4.5 GHz and the identical as the usual 7950X. We do see a slight decline of 200 MHz in comparison with the 7950X, a crucial lodging for the decrease 120W TDP.
The previous-gen mannequin’s efficiency famously suffers in commonplace functions as a result of its decrease enhance clock price, so the 7950X3D’s greater clock price implies that we gained’t see as a lot of a tradeoff in productiveness apps with the brand new Zen 4 fashions. Nevertheless, we’re a 50W discount in accessible energy, which can have an effect on threaded workloads.
The truth is, frequencies are greater for all three new X3D chips. The 12-core 24-thread Ryzen 9 7900X3D peaks at 5.6 GHz, the identical as the usual 7900X, whereas base clocks decline a comparatively minor 300 MHz (it’s uncommon to see the bottom clock in precise use). This chip comes armed with 104MB of cache, with 96 MB carved out as L3. This chip additionally drops to the decrease 120W TDP vary, so it should additionally lose some efficiency in heavily-threaded functions.
Each the 7950X3D and the 7900X3D have two four-core chiplets, marking the primary time that AMD has introduced this tech to a multi-CCD processor. As you’ll be able to see within the above picture, AMD solely mounts a single SRAM chiplet atop one CCD, leaving the opposite CCD naked. This permits the chiplet with out the 3D-stacked SRAM to function at full velocity, thus delivering the excessive enhance clocks we see on the spec sheet. In the meantime, the SRAM-stacked CCD will function at a barely decrease clock price than the rated enhance for the chip.
AMD is working with Microsoft on Home windows optimizations that can work in tandem with a brand new AMD chipset driver to determine video games that favor the elevated L3 cache capability and pin them into the CCD with the stacked cache. Different video games that favor greater frequencies greater than elevated L3 cache might be pinned into the naked CCD. AMD says that the naked chiplet can entry the stacked L3 cache within the adjoining chiplet, however this isn’t optimum and might be uncommon. Sure, the chip with the additional L3 cache will run video games at a slower velocity, however most video games don’t function at peak clock charges, so it is best to nonetheless get an enormous efficiency profit.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D comes as the one 7800X mannequin within the stack, so there isn’t a direct comparability from AMD’s Zen 4 secure. Nevertheless, it’s immediately corresponding to the first-gen Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The 8-core 16-thread 7800X3D has 96MB of L3 cache, the identical core depend and cache capability as its Zen 3 predecessor. The 7800X3D additionally has a base clock of 4.x and a 5.0 GHz enhance, each of that are greater than the 5800X3D’s 3.4 GHz base and 4.5 GHz enhance. Like the opposite X3D chips, the 7800X3D has a 120W TDP, which is 15W greater than the 5800X3D and the current-gen eight-core Ryzen 7 7700X. These sooner clocks and better TDP paired with the extra trendy Zen 4 structure will yield efficiency boosts over the 5800X3D and the 7700X alike. It’s logical to assume that this chip ought to provide the lion’s share of the gaming advantages you’ll see with the X3D chips, so we anticipate this to be a preferred mannequin.
AMD’s solely allowed overclocking the reminiscence and infinity cloth for the previous-gen 5800X3D, not different types of core overclocking, however will now permit each the auto-overclocking Precision Increase Overdrive (PBO) and use of the Curve Optimizer. AMD tells us that the Curve Optimizer will work finest to extract extra efficiency, however each choices can be found. Nevertheless, AMD is not going to permit direct frequency overclocking as a result of a 1.4V restrict for the chip (this was a 1.1V restrict with the previous-gen mannequin).
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AMD shared some efficiency benchmarks, however as with all third-party assessments, take them with a grain of salt. These charts additionally embody an unlabeled axis, so it may be a non-zero axis that visually inflates efficiency deltas.
AMD confirmed efficiency ends in dour titles which might be usually CPU sure, so the advantages of the X3D structure shine by – significantly on the 1080p decision used for testing. AMD claims the beastly 16-core 7950X3D is wherever from 13% to 24% sooner than the Intel flagship Core i9-13900K in these titles. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a superb gaming processor, but it surely suffers tremendously in utility benchmarks. That tradeoff seems to be drastically decreased with the 7950X3D, as AMD claims that it’s wherever from 4% to 52% sooner than the Core i9-13900K in a collection of productiveness benchmarks.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D additionally seems potent, with AMD’s benchmarks exhibiting it wherever from 21% to 30% sooner than the 5800X3D on this collection of titles. Bear in mind that there are a couple of esports class titles on this choice, and that some video games will both not profit from the additional cache as a lot, or not profit in any respect.
AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, Ryzen 5 7600 Pricing and Specs
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The 65W “non-X” Zen 4 Ryzen fashions are lengthy awaited by worth seekers, as they supply a decrease value of entry to the AM5 platform – a a lot wanted addition given the excessive value of AM5 motherboards and the truth that Ryzen 7000 requires expensive DDR5 reminiscence whereas Intel’s chips can assist both DDR4 or DDR5, thus giving it an total value benefit. Moreover, the chips include bundled coolers that considerably enhance the worth proposition, and easily partaking the auto-overclocking Precision Increase Overdrive (PBO) characteristic in tandem with reminiscence overclocking can yield almost the identical end result because the X-series fashions. The entire new fashions have a 65W base energy and 88W restrict underneath full load.
| Header Cell – Column 0 | Road/MSRP | Cores / Threads (P+E) | P-Core Base / Increase Clock (GHz) | E-Core Base / Increase Clock (GHz) | Cache (L2/L3) | TDP / PBP / MTP | Reminiscence |
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| Core i9-13900 / F | $549 – $529 (F) | 24 / 32 (8+16) | 2.0 / 5.6 | 1.5 / 4.2 | 68MB (32+36) | 65W / 219W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Ryzen 9 7900X | $474 ($549) | 12 / 24 | 4.7 / 5.6 | – | 76MB (12+64) | 170W / 230W | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 9 7900 | $429 | 12 / 24 | ? / 5.3 | 76MB (12+64) | 65W / 88W | DDR5-5200 | |
| Core i7-13700K / KF | $409 (Okay) – $384 (KF) | 16 / 24 (8+8) | 3.4 / 5.4 | 2.5 / 4.2 | 54MB (24+30) | 125W / 253W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Core i7-13700 / F | $384 – $359 (F) | 16 / 24 (8+8) | 2.1 / 5.2 | 1.5 / 4.1 | 54MB (24+30) | 65W / 219W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Ryzen 7 7700X | $349 ($399) | 8 /16 | 4.5 / 5.4 | – | 40MB (8+32) | 105W / 142W | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 7 7700 | $329 | 8 / 16 | ? / 5.3 GHz | 40MB (8+32) | 65W / 88W | DDR5-5200 | |
| Ryzen 5 7600X | $249 ($299) | 6 / 12 | 4.7 / 5.3 | – | 38MB (6+32) | 105W / 142W | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 5 7600 | $229 | 6 / 12 | ? / 5.1 GHz | 38MB (6+32) | 65W / 88W | DDR5-5200 | |
| Core i5-13600K / KF | $319 (Okay) – $294 (KF) | 14 / 20 (6+8) | 3.5 / 5.1 | 2.6 / 3.9 | 44MB (20+24) | 125W / 181W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Core i5-13500 | $232 | 14 / 20 (6+8) | 2.5 / 4.8 | 1.8 / 3.5 | 55.5MB (11.5+24) | 65W /148W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-4800 |
| Core i5-13400 / F | $221 – $196 (F) | 10 / 16 (6+4) | 2.5 / 4.6 | 1.8 / 3.3 | 29.5MB (9.5+20) | 65W /148W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-4800 |
The $429 Ryzen 9 7900 leads the cost with 12 cores and 24 threads, and also you’ll discover there isn’t a non-X 7950X mannequin, so 12 cores is probably the most you should purchase for a reduced-cost 65W chip. AMD isn’t sharing the bottom frequency for any of the non-X fashions but – we anticipate they’ll be considerably decrease than the 7900X to suit throughout the decrease TDP score – however specs an ‘as much as’ 5.4 GHz enhance for the 7900. That’s solely 300 MHz decrease than the $474 Ryzen 9 7900X, which is cheap contemplating its decrease 65W/88W TDP score in comparison with the 7900X’s 170W/230W. The remainder of the 7900’s key specs are an identical to the 7900X. The 7900 competes with Intel’s Core i9-13900, however at a considerably cheaper price level. This chip comes with the succesful RGB Wraith Prism cooler.
The Ryzen 7 7700 weighs in with eight cores and twelve threads for $329, which is a small financial savings in comparison with the Ryzen 7 7700X’s $349 road worth. This chip does include a bundled cooler whereas the 7700X doesn’t, however we nonetheless anticipate that the 7700 will quickly retail for a lot lower than this instructed pricing. This chip boosts as much as 5.1 GHz, a 200 MHz decline from the 7700X. The 7700 additionally comes with the RGB-equipped Wraith Prism and can compete with the Core i7-13700.
The Ryzen 7 7600 needs to be the worth darling of this era, simply the Ryzen 5 5600 was for the previous-gen Zen 3 lineup. The 7600 has a 5.1 GHz enhance, a 200 MHz decline in comparison with the 7600X, and has a bundled Wraith Stealth cooler. This chip will grapple with Intel’s Core i5-13600.
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AMD shared its personal efficiency benchmarks for the chips, touting the 7900’s generational uplift of seven% to 31% in gaming and 12% to 48% in functions over the Ryzen 9 5950X. The corporate additionally shared comparable benchmarks for the Ryzen 7 7700 over the previous-gen Ryzen 7 5800X and the Ryzen 5 7600 over the Ryzen 5 5600X. These are spectacular generational uplifts, however the lack of direct comparisons to Intel’s chips leaves some gray space. As you’ll be able to think about, opinions will come quickly to clear up any lingering efficiency questions.
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Lastly, AMD touted the advantages of its AM5 platform, together with a PCIe 5.0 lane depend benefit over Intel (24 vs 16) which means your major graphics card slot will nonetheless function on the full x16 once you use a PCIe 50 M.2 SSD, whereas Intel’s slot will drop to a x8 connection. PCIe 5.0 SSDs are simply now coming to market so this is probably not an enormous benefit now, however AMD has pledged to assist the platform to 2025 at a minimal, so it may very well be extra essential sooner or later. AMD additionally shared a couple of benchmarks exhibiting a Ryzen 9 7900 yield a 34% acquire in threaded work (Cinebench R23) from PBO overclocking with the Wraith Stealth cooler, which will increase to a 39% acquire with water cooling. The corporate additionally shared the compulsory energy/efficiency slide to spotlight its generational uplift in efficiency per watt.