AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D
February, 2023
Type
CPU
Price
$699.99 US
A new era is upon us, an era that involves a reenvisioned focus on performance and efficiency leadership in the CPU landscape. There are two companies that are battling hard to hold the throne of this segment but given the incremental (and sometimes revolutionary) changes that each chipmaker is bringing to the field in a span of a few quarters, there’s no decisive victor. In return, the consumers keep on reaping the benefits of this heated battle between red and blue which is the most intense it’s ever been.
While Intel may have managed to take the performance and value throne from AMD with its 13th-Gen Raptor Lake & 12th-Gen Alder Lake lineup, AMD wasn’t going to sit silent. The red team has been offering some great discounts across its entire Ryzen 7000 CPUs and even offered more value in the form of the Non-X Ryzen 7000 series. But today, we get a taste of their X3D parts, featuring for the first time, the Ryzen 9 SKUs for enthusiast gamers out there.
In the five years of Zen, the company went from performance leadership to core leadership, efficiency leadership, and gaming leadership. And today, the red team even manages to secure the clock speed leadership, something that we thought was impossible against a rival such as Intel.
Intel 13th Gen vs AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU Lineup (2023):
| Intel CPU | Cores / Threads | Clocks (Max) | Price (MSRP) | Prices (Newegg) – 03/03/2023 | Prices (Newegg) – 03/03/2023 | Price (MSRP) | Clocks (Max) | Cores / Threads | AMD CPU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900KS | 24/32 | 6.0 GHz (253W) | $699 US | $699 US | $699 US | $699 US | 5.7 GHz (120W) | 16/32 | AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 24/32 | 5.8 GHz (253W) | $599 US (K) $574 US (KF) |
$579 US (K) $554 US (KF) |
$599 (X) $599 (X3D) |
$599 (X) $599 (X3D) |
5.7 GHz (170W) 5.6 GHz (120W) |
16/32 12/24 |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D |
| Intel Core i7-13700K | 16/24 | 5.4 GHz (253W) | $419 US (K) $394 US (KF) |
$417 US (K) $398 US (KF) |
$449 US (X) $449 US (X3D) |
$449 US (X) $449 US (X3D) |
5.6 GHz (170W) 5.0 GHz (120W) |
12/24 8/16 |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
| Intel Core i5-12600K | 14/20 | 5.1 GHz (181W) | $329 US (K) $304 US (KF) |
$289 US (K) $264 US (KF) |
$349 US (X) $249 US (X) |
$349 US (X) $249 US (X) |
5.4 GHz (105W) 5.3 GHz (105W) |
8/16 6/12 |
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X AMD Ryzen 5 7600X |
While the initial Ryzen 7000 focused on a brand new platform with great gen-over-gen uplifts, the Ryzen 7000 X3D CPUs aim to drive the gaming performance to the next level. This week, AMD is introducing two flagships, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, and Ryzen 9 7900X3D which aim at the high-end enthusiast market.
The main features of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs include:
- Up To 16 Zen 4 Cores and 32 Threads
- +29% Performance Uplift In Single-Threaded Apps
- Brand New Zen 4 CPU Cores (IPC / Architectural Improvements)
- Brand New TSMC 5nm process node with 6nm IOD
- 25% Performance Per Watt Improvement Vs Zen 3
- >35% Overall Performance Improvement Vs Zen 3
- ~13% Instructions Per Clock (IPC) Improvement Vs Zen 3
- Support on AM5 Platform With LGA1718 Socket
- New X670E, X670, B650E, B650 Motherboards
- Dual-Channel DDR5 Memory Support
- Up To DDR5-5600 Native (JEDEC) Speeds
- 28 PCIe Lanes (CPU Exclusive)
- 105-120W TDPs (Upper Bound Range ~170W)
So for today’s review, we will be taking a look at the flagship AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU on MSI’s brand new MAG X670E Tomahawk motherboard and see how it performs.
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