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Ryzen 9 7950X

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16 Cores, 32 Threads @4.5GHz, Zen4.
Release date: Q3 2022.

Average Bench: 114% (36th of 1459)

Based on 2,411 user benchmarks.  Device: 178BFBFF00A60F12 Model: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor

Within minutes of the first, pre-release, 7000 series userbenchmark results, AMD’s marketers broadcast a 20% win over the 12900K via thousands of anonymous twitter, reddit, forum and youtube accounts. Buying new AMD products is like buying used cars: it takes time, experience and a taste for sales hype. It’s difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominates “sponsored news” and social media channels. Ten years ago, when AMD was the underdog, this type of marketing was understandable. Today, with a capitalization of $150 Billion USD, it’s disrespectful to AMD's own users. Even with Intel's marketing department asleep at the wheel, Ryzen will quickly end up in the same state as Radeon. Following a series of overhyped releases, consumers have little interest in the Radeon brand. The combined market share for all of AMD’s (discrete) Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs (Steam stats) is just 2%. Although the new 7000 series Zen4 CPUs are actually around 15% faster than their predecessors, they have hefty cooling requirements (TDP +60% vs 5000 series), 30 second BIOS post times, expensive DDR5 RAM requirements and only work with expensive motherboards. Despite the 7000 series struggling to match Intel’s outgoing 12th gen, AMD market it as a “future proof” platform! They want users to pay a premium for last gen performance in exchange for the shallow promise of upgrades in the future. Over the next few days, Intel’s 13th gen (Raptor Lake) will launch. Shoppers will do well to wait until then. Despite AMD’s Neanderthal marketing techniques, it’s hard not to admire their technical progress. AMD-Raptor4 and Intel-Zen13 would be better fitting product names. [Sep '22 CPUPro]

Poor: 103%Average: 114% Great: 125%
Gaming
Gaming 114%
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Desktop
Desktop 115%
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Workstation
Workstation 150%
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Outstanding average bench

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X averaged 13.9% higher than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Multi Core Speed 3,636Pts
Avg. Quad Core Speed 789Pts

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X is 22.4%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Memory Latency 79.9Pts
Avg. Octa Core Speed 1,526Pts
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Average Bench

(Based on 2,411 samples)
Rank 36114%
Min Avg Max
67.6 Memory 79.9 93.3
182 1-Core 210 221
325 2-Core 406 433
120% 232 Pts
Min Avg Max
583 4-Core 789 856
1,057 8-Core 1,526 1,683
137% 1,158 Pts
Min Avg Max
3,140 64-Core 3,636 3,894
225% 3,636 Pts
User Benchmarks BenchNormalHeavyServer
The fastest CPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
AM5, 1 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads
Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.1 GHz (avg)
119% Outstanding
Memory 84.7
1-Core 211
2-Core 413
123% 236 Pts
4-Core 822
8-Core 1,607
144% 1,214 Pts
64-Core 3663
227% 3663 Pts
AM5, 1 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads
Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.3 GHz (avg)
117% Outstanding
Memory 72.8
1-Core 221
2-Core 433
124% 242 Pts
4-Core 858
8-Core 1,680
150% 1,269 Pts
64-Core 3,900
241% 3,900 Pts
AM5, 1 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads
Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)
114% Outstanding
Memory 76.1
1-Core 211
2-Core 414
120% 234 Pts
4-Core 838
8-Core 1,046
121% 942 Pts
64-Core 3,699
229% 3,699 Pts
AM5, 1 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads
Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.15 GHz (avg)
114% Outstanding
Memory 74
1-Core 215
2-Core 420
121% 236 Pts
4-Core 821
8-Core 1,614
144% 1,217 Pts
64-Core 3,736
231% 3,736 Pts
AM5, 1 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads
Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.25 GHz (avg)
114% Outstanding
Memory 75.7
1-Core 219
2-Core 437
124% 244 Pts
4-Core 810
8-Core 1,649
144% 1,229 Pts
64-Core 3,820
236% 3,820 Pts
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Gaming 283%
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Desktop 116%
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Workstation 369%
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Motherboard: MSI MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI (MS-7D75)

CPU
Ryzen 9 7950XAMD  $522Bench 114%, 2,411 samples1x
GPU
RX 7900-XTXAMD  $1,000Bench 257%, 7,128 samples66x
RTX 4070-TiNvidia  $732Bench 240%, 46,082 samples66x
RTX 4070Nvidia  $499Bench 190%, 45,585 samples65x
SSD
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung  $171Bench 402%, 182,136 samples77x
990 Pro M.2 2TBSamsung  $160Bench 449%, 61,354 samples63x
Black SN850X M.2 2TBWD  $145Bench 492%, 37,629 samples37x
RAM
TZ/RJ/FX DDR5 6000 C30 2x16GBG.SKILL  $100Bench 184%, 17,261 samples117x
TZ/RJ/FL DDR5 6000 C36 2x16GBG.SKILL  $88Bench 168%, 31,229 samples59x
Vengeance RGB DDR5 6000 C30 2x16GBCorsair  $123Bench 183%, 7,992 samples57x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 94% - Outstanding Total price: $1,793

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CPUPro
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Official site www.amd.com/...

AMD Ryzen 7000 Series ushers in the speed of “Zen 4” for gamers and creators...

Added 22 months ago.
USA-User
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Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

2 days ago.

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The IPC improvement compared to 5000 series is only 3%, so this performance you're seeing is all coming from the power draw and temps. Seems like AMD is at its limit again. Bulldozer is back.—Oct '22

Comment 

Impressive multi-threaded performance, but the single-threaded performance is disappointing. It's on par or weaker than Alder Lake depending on the CPU. The memory controller on AMD motherboards doesn't seem to be able to handle as fast RAM as Intel does. You cannot squeeze all the performance available in this processor unless you get yourself a 420m AIO which is quite expensive and you'd rather be spending this money elsewhere, and even at full speed this processor still is weaker than 12900k. If you run this processor on "eco mode" or undervolted it you'd be getting the same performance as 5950x, so it's not worth it, and it shows that 7950x is basically an overclocked 5950x. I cannot recommmend this CPU to anyone because compared to Raptor Lake this seems as if it's two generations behind in terms of instructions per clock.—Oct '22

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Fake “fans”, paid reviews, and fake benchmarks: A 150 Billion dollar 60 minutes masterpiece in the making—Dec '22

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Excellent

1 month ago.

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the emperor has no clothes—Dec '22

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CAN-User
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Excellent

8 months ago.

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Terrible value compared to the 13600K for gaming, and the 13700K for workstation.—Nov '22

POL-User
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4,616

Excellent

14 months ago.

LOL, try overclocking that CPU without making it explode! Even if you add only few %s of boost, it will explode like a gigabyte PSU! If AMD still calls their CPUs "the best" or "overclock monsters", they need rename their brand to "Advanced marketing devices" or "Advanced Malfunctioning Devices". 2/10, NEVER BUYING AMD AGAIN! 13900KS ALL THE WAY!

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Liked

5 months ago.

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Userbench description spot on as usual. Shame so many first time buyers are duped by AMD's marketing BS—Mar '23

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Liked

16 months ago.

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costly and speed not up to the money—Mar '23

NZL-User
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Excellent

16 months ago.

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Me dumb dumb no brainy worky buy 7950X go fast nrwoom—Mar '23

CPUPro
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Good

22 months ago.

ZxOmenGuyxZ
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Excellent

22 months ago.

A beast and costs 699 dollars, but beware of Raptor Lake.

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Excellent

11 months ago.

AMD finally increasing that TDP and clocks, worth the jump from zen 3

kalef21
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Excellent

20 months ago.

only great once discounted t $550. at that price it's an amazing all around gaming and workstation CPU

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