AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, 12C/24T, 4.70-5.60GHz, boxed ohne Kühler

Dieses Fazit ist uns am schwersten gefallen. Rein auf die Leistung bezogen, bleibt beim Ryzen 9 7900X kein Auge trocken. Spiele? Anwendungen? Das alles läuft wunderbar flüssig, keine Frage. Doch um flüssig zu spielen, brauche ich keinen 7900X, da tut es auch ein 7600X oder 5800X3D. Wenn ich dagegen möglichst effizient und leistungsstark mit dem PC arbeiten möchte, dann wandert da direkt ein 7950X mit 16 Kernen rein, alles andere wäre Unsinn. Bei den Vorgängern Zen 2 und Zen 3 konnten wir den 3900X und 5900X guten Gewissens für Nutzer empfehlen, die einen Allrounder suchen, mit dem man spielen und arbeiten kann, ohne dass der Geldbeutel zu leer und die Stromrechnung zu hoch wird. Beim Ryzen 9

Viele Neuerungen und viel Leistung! Knapp zwei Jahre nach dem Release der Ryzen-5000-Prozessoren schickt AMD nun sein aktuelles Line-up aka Raphael mit moderner Zen-4-Architektur ins Rennen um die Leistungskrone der schnellsten CPU. Der Intel Core i9-12900K sieht oftmals nur noch die Rücklichter und das obwohl wir mit dem Ryzen 9 7900X nur das zweitschnellste Modell im Test haben. Wie groß der Vorsprung ist und was AMDs kleinerer Ryzen 5 7600X leistet, erfahren Sie in diesem ausführlichen Review.

So, what can we say? Well, take a look at the benchmarks above … all 3 systems performed amazingly well, and to be honest, I’ll be happy to have any one of them at any time! The overall performance difference is really marginal. It all basically boils down to whether you want to overclock your CPU and memory (or not) … if so, then go for the Intel, but you’ll need a sufficient and adequate CPU cooler. These Intel processors tend to run quite hot.

We've already had a good look at two of the new AMD Ryzen processors that form part of their 7000 series, the Ryzen 7700X and the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X. But we know that not everyone can quite stretch to that flagship cost, and that if you're solely gaming then even the 7700X offers up more performance than you strictly need. Today we're looking at the other two processors that make up the AM5 Ryzen offerings. The Ryzen 9 7900X for those of you who want to have lots of performance without having the finances to push up to the 7950X, and the Ryzen 5 7600X which promises to be all the gaming processor you actually need, whilst saving you a chunk of money you can put towards your GPU. We saw from our Intel testing how impressive the i5-13600K was, so naturally we're keen to find out if the AMD equivalent matches, or even surpasses, that level of price/performance. Without further ado, let's quickly run through the specifications, take a look at them in the flesh, and get down to brass tacks.

AMD’s Ryzen 9 7900X delivers impressive performance gains that beat Alder Lake in most types of workloads, including gaming. However, the chip, motherboard, and memory pricing conspire to reduce its appeal against Alder Lake, and we expect that disparity to become far more pronounced when Raptor Lake arrives later this month.

AMD’s Ryzen 9 7900X delivers impressive performance gains that beat Alder Lake in most types of workloads, including gaming. However, the chip, motherboard, and memory pricing conspire to reduce its appeal against Alder Lake, and we expect that disparity to become far more pronounced when Raptor Lake arrives later this month.

With my launch day review of the Zen 4 based Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X, I was especially impressed with their single-core performance which put the 6 and 8-core CPUs up against CPUs like the Intel i9-12900K and often had them beating it which was impressive. So going into my testing of the Ryzen 9 CPUs which doubles up the core count compared to those two and have even higher max boost clocks I had high hopes and the Ryzen 9 7950X and the Ryzen 9 7900X met those expectations and much more. The two Ryzen 9 CPUs top almost all of the charts from our testing and in any test that has more of a focus on high core/thread count the 7950X stands out with a huge lead often dwarfing the rest of the results. But it is the higher clock speeds that helped the 7950X and 7900X do so well in the gaming tests. Overall Zen 4 shows just how far AMD has come from the original Ryzen launch.

We do not expect the Ryzen 9 7900X in specific to be the best-selling product from AMD, is a bit of an odd one with that weird core configuration. But we do think it offers tremendous performance. With the current PPT setting at 175W, the temperatures are manageable as long as you have LCS. $549 bucks for a six-core processor is a little steep, and in the EU you need to add your country taxes as well. At 21% you'll be looking at 849 EUR (!) So if you purchase this processor, you must be very sure you need and utilize all cores; otherwise, it's just money wasted. With energy costs soaring, it has never been more essential to examine the power consumption of your computer, both when idle and under load. Given the performance capabilities of the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X processor, it comes as no surprise that it consumes quite a bit of energy. The 7600X and this 7900X seem to perform better in thermals. After examining it, it seems that our ASUS board's latest firmware is no longer configured at a PPT (maximum wattage of 230W, we see a ~175W limit. We still get close to 90 Degrees C under load though. We hit sub-90 degrees C under massive load with a fairly typical LCS (admittedly, not the greatest performing one). AMD describes the Ryzen 9 7900X as having a boost of (up to) 5.6 GHz; however if you can cool the device better, you may achieve a better peak boost based on a Tjmax of 95°C. With our (modest) 280mm LCS, we got 5.70 GHz. But let's break things up.

After nearly two years, AMD is back with their newest Desktop processor based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture. This round of Ryzen CPUs comes with a laundry list of changes. First, we have the switch from 7 nm to TSMC’s 5 nm process node, DDR5 memory, and the next generation PCI Express 5.0. The flagship CPU using the new Zen 4 architecture, code-named Raphael, is a 16-core, 32-thread CPU with a maximum boost speed of 5.7 GHz, yes, you read that correctly, and we’ll elaborate more on this later. The new Ryzen 9 7950 X has a suggested release price of $699, which is $100.00 less than the Ryzen 9 5950 X released in November 2020, nearly two years ago. We have also included a list of SKUs with specifications and pricing below.

The Ryzen 9 7900X is only a marginally better processor than the 8-core 7700X, if your PC mainly serves as a gaming battlestation. You're not getting a much faster gaming processor. This is mainly because games still don't need more than a handful cores (6 to 8), and the single-chiplet design of the 7700X ensures that all gaming workload is localized to a single die, and handled among a single bunch of CPU cores, which is not the case with the dual-chiplet processors such as the 7900X. This is not to say that the 7900X is bad at gaming at all. Averaged across our game tests, the 7900X is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D by 5%, and about 1.5% faster than the 7700X itself, on account of its higher boost clocks. The 7950X is only 1% faster. The Intel chips still end up slightly better, with the i7-12700K ending up 3% faster than the i9-12900K about 5% up. In early summer, way before we had any Zen 4 samples, I picked titles based on their relevance and popularity and it seems the game list tends to run a bit better on Intel than what a general average over many more titles would end up at. I have plans to test Zen 4 on a wider range of games, 50 is the target, to get a better feel for this. Both AMD Zen 4 and Intel Alder Lake are fantastic processors for gaming and in a subjective test without FPS counter you wouldn't be able to tell their performance apart. For gaming at highest FPS, the processor is secondary, you should rather spend as much money as possible on the graphics card and pair it with a more affordable processor, instead of focusing on brute CPU performance.

Now with the 7900X, we showed a lot of gaming tests, but also showcased its potential when it comes to workload and I think it’s safe to say that AMD have done a great job to increase performance over the generation before, and for the most part, we saw the 7900X either ahead of the 5950X or at similar levels, and I’m ok with that, because we have a 7950X coming into our offices soon and that should offer up performance above and beyond that.

It's all good stuff then, but the elephant in the room is that Intel's 13th-gen CPUs are due to be announced on September 27th, and most likely be offered for sale within a few weeks. These parts are meant to offer a fairly robust improvement over 12th-gen, with leaks suggesting higher clock speeds, more cache and more efficiency cores. If Intel sees big gains, then AMD's new chips could lose some of their lustre. Only time will tell.

Overall, we can’t help but be impressed by the AMD Ryzen 7000 series. Across the board, the new Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7900X showed significant and meaningful performance improvements, versus previous-gen processors, that often propelled them to the top of the heap. The single and multi-threaded performance gains result in many clear wins over Intel’s Alder Lake-based 12th Gen Core processors, but those P-cores in Intel’s parts are still formidable and notched a couple victories in a few tests. Of course, Intel’s got 13th Gen Raptor Lake-processors coming down the pipeline as well, which reportedly offer a big performance boost as well, but we can’t talk about those just yet.