The Ryzen 9 7950X is AMD’s flagship and will cost $100 less than the 5950X, $700. It has 16 cores / 32 threads, 5.7 GHz boost, and.
Recap: Last week, AMD announced the 7000-series and scheduled its launch for September 27. If you missed our recap of the event, the bottom line is this: these processors will gorge themselves on power to reach astronomical clock speeds but are otherwise fairly similar to their predecessors.
The Ryzen 9 7950X is AMD’s flagship and will cost $100 less than the 5950X, $700. It has 16 cores / 32 threads, 5.7 GHz boost, and 4.5 GHz base clocks. Those speeds, an increased cache capacity, and other IPC improvements culminate in what AMD says is a 29% single-core performance gain over the 5950X.
So it shouldn’t be surprising to see it flying past the 5950X in the first leaked benchmarks. Like the 7700X and 7600X, the 7950X has been put through the paces in the Cinebench R23 render test.
Enthusiasts in China acquired several engineering and production samples and started publishing benchmark results last week.
