Whether it is a 3A game masterpiece or a professional productivity application, it requires a processor with strong enough performance to meet the needs. In the past two years, the AMD Zen3 architecture CPU has been very popular, and the Ryzen 9 5950X has always been the impression that it has both comprehensive performance in human productivity and gaming performance. Now, the latest Ryzen 7000 series of AMD has begun to be officially released, and the most eye-catching thing is of course the top flagship product Ryzen 9 7950X.
As a new generation of consumer flagship processors, Ryzen 9 7950X and 5950X are also designed with 16 cores and 32 threads, and 64MB Level 3 cache. In comparison, the second-level cache of Ryzen 9 7950X doubled to 16MB, and the basic frequency reached 4.5GHz, and the maximum acceleration frequency reached 5.7GHz. Under these amazing hardware specifications, how much improvement does the 7950X have compared to its predecessors? In terms of
games, in the test of the five games under 1080P, the Ryzen 9 7950X achieved the best results in four of the games, only lagging behind i9-12900K with a slight frame rate disadvantage in Final Fantasy 14, while in "Tomb Raider" and "DOTA2", both achieved a significant frame rate lead compared to the other two CPUs. Compared with Ryzen 9 5950X, 7950X has a relatively obvious advantage in every game, with an average lead of more than 7%.
Of course, as a performance monster with 16 cores, the Ryzen 9 7950X has much greater advantages in productivity applications than in games. Let me learn about the performance of 7950X in different productivity applications.
x264 is an open source encoder with a wide range of applications, so this part of the test can effectively reflect the actual performance of the CPU under video editing software. In this test, the previous generation 5950X was slightly weaker than the i9-12900K, but the performance of the 7950X was much higher, which was about 40% stronger than the other two models.
Blender is a famous open source three-dimensional animation production software that provides a series of animation short film production solutions from modeling to animation and even audio and video editing. junkshop is used here as a test scenario. The performance of 5950X is slightly stronger than the i9-12900K, while the 7950X continues to be the only one, and its performance continues to lead the previous generation of opponents by more than 40%.
Cinebench R23 uses the engine of Cinema 4D special effects software developed by MAXON for the film and television industry. Because C4D is widely used in 3D creation and professional fields, Cinebench has high reference and can measure the performance of CPU in 3D scenarios. The test results are similar to before, the 5950X and i9-12900K continue to fight back and forth, while the 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X still leads the other two opponents with a significant advantage. The image editing test of
UL Procyon will use PhotoShop and Lightroom software, which is more meaningful for users who often edit photos. The highest total score this time is the i9-12900K, and the Ryzen 9 7950X is behind by a slight disadvantage of 2%, but it is still leading the 5950X by more than 20%.
From the above productivity application tests, it can be seen that the Ryzen 9 7950X is in the first echelon of performance in all tests, especially in video rendering and 3D design, which has far surpassed other processors on the market. After the unprecedented success of the Ryzen 5000 series, the Ryzen 9 7950X, as the flagship product of the AMD Zen 4 architecture, continues to make rapid progress, raising the performance limit of consumer-grade processor CPUs, and is worthy of being the "all-round king" among today's PC processors.
Along with Ryzen 7000 series processors, the new X670 and X670E chipset motherboards are also launched. In addition to the update of the AM5 processor interface based on LGA, it also brings DDR5 memory and doubled bandwidth PCI-E 5.0. The number of PCI-E channels provided by the CPU has also increased from 24 to 28. The new IOD chip can support two M.2 interfaces directly connected to the CPU. Some high-end motherboards also provide the latest USB 4 interfaces, which greatly enhances the expansion capabilities. AMD has also promised to provide support for the new platform until at least 2025, so it is no problem to be compatible with the next generation of Zen 5 architecture products on the new platform.
The strongest consumer-grade CPU performance, greatly enhanced expansion capabilities, and compatibility support for future products, we can stand on the shoulders of the Ryzen 9 7950X and create an all-round host that is enough to "fight for ten years".