AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, 16C/32T, 4.50-5.70GHz, boxed ohne Kühler

Nach dem kürzlich veröffentlichten AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Test sehen wir uns heute den AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Prozessor auf OCinside.de an. Wir dürfen gespannt sein, wie sich die Power von 16 Kernen und 32 Threads im Vergleich zum AMD Ryzen 5 7600X schlägt und wie gut sich der AMD Ryzen 9 7950X übertakten lässt. Zudem zeigen wir im OCinside YouTube Channel ein interessantes AMD Ryzen Wärmebild Video.

Der Ryzen 9 7950X und Ryzen 7 7700X schneiden insgesamt schlechter als die aktuelle Intel-Konkurrenz ab, sind aber keineswegs schlechte Prozessoren. Trotz der Unterlegenheit bei Benchmarks sind sie in Spielen kaum langsamer als der Core i9-13900K beziehungsweise Core i7-13700K. Wer hauptsächlich Spiele spielt, sollte den Ryzen 7 dem Ryzen 9 bevorzugen, da die Leistung diesbezüglich gleichauf liegt.

Raphaels spannende, neue Kunstwerke. Die AMD-Raphael-Zen-4-CPUs Ryzen 9 7950X und Ryzen 7 7700X versprechen eine deutlich gesteigerte Leistung und Effizienz gegenüber Zen 3. Die neuen Prozessoren kämpfen mit Intels Raptor-Lake-Gegenstücken um die beste (Gaming-)Leistung und schlagen sich dahingehend meist gut. Der neue Eco-Modus, der es dem Ryzen 9 7950X bei einem Verbrauch von nur 65 W ermöglicht, die Alder-Lake-CPU Core i9-12900K abzuhängen, ist besonders interessant. Man sollte jedoch auch die Einstiegskosten für die AM5-Plattform nicht unterschätzen.

Wer sich einen neuen AMD Ryzen 7000 kauft, egal welches Modell, wird mit Sicherheit die hohen Temperaturen verfluchen und sich damit auch über die meist hohe Leistungsaufnahme bei Volllast ärgern. Nur kann man sich sehr einfach abhelfen, wenn man weiß wie und auch ein paar Basics beachtet, damit das System auch wirklich stabil bleibt. Dass der Artikel erst heute erscheint, liegt nämlich daran, dass ich dieses System mit den erweiterten Settings ganze 24 Stunden mit einem Loop in Inventor 2021 Pro gestresst habe, wo alles drin ist.

Heute ist es soweit. Mit dem Ryzen 9 7950X und dem Ryzen 7 7700X schauen wir uns die ersten beiden Vertreter der Ryzen-7000-Serie an. Zen-4-Architektur, neue Fertigung, neues CPU-Package, neuer Sockel, DDR5, PCI-Express 5.0 – die Neuerungen rund um AMDs Plattform sind vielfältig. Entsprechend werden wir uns jedem der Themen auch ausgiebig auf den nun folgenden Seiten widmen.

Wie schnell ist Zen 4 in Spielen? Das klärt der Test mit Ryzen 9 7950X und Ryzen 7 7700X, die unter anderem gegen Core i9-12900KS, Ryzen 9 5950X und Ryzen 5800X3D antreten. Dabei zeigt sich, dass Zen 4 gegenüber Zen 3 spürbar zulegt – aber es wird knapp auf den Spitzenplätzen.

AMDs Ryzen-7000-Prozessoren starten mit Zen-4-Architektur. Zum Auftakt hat ComputerBase Ryzen 9 7950X und Ryzen 7 7700X traditionell ausführlich unter die Lupe genommen: Der Test mit Benchmarks in Apps und Spielen sowie IPC-, Takt-, Effizienz-, UV- und OC-Analysen vermittelt einen umfassenden Eindruck der neuen Generation.

Ryzen 7000 ist 60 Prozent schneller als Alder Lake und 50 Prozent effizienter - so wurde der Launch von PCGH zu Zen 4 eingeläutet. Wir liefern Ihnen jetzt das Ergebnis von über 4.000 Messungen in Form des neuen CPU-Index, der alle Vorteile der neuesten CPU-Generationen, wie DDR5 und PCI-Express 5.0 berücksichtigt. Wie schnell ist Zen 4, Codename Raphael?

It's been a fascinating experience trying out the Ryzen 9 7950X with three very different kinds of cooling solutions. The 95°C load temperature of Zen 4 desktop processors is somewhat misunderstood due to the way it's being referred to on social media and online forums. This isn't a T-junction max temperature in the classical sense. Your CPU won't get damaged, or the PC won't turn off the moment it hits this temperature, but rather the processor will aim to run at this temperature, which is the highest safe operational temperature, and adjust its boost frequency and voltages accordingly, to keep the processor at this temperature (not under this temperature). If your cooler is good enough that the processor can boost up to its top 5.75 GHz highest boost frequency, then by all means you'll get this speed. If not, you'll get a lower boost frequency. How much lower? Depends on the cooler. Even with the weakest configuration in our test (Wraith Spire at 20%), you still get 5.3 GHz, which is 92% of the maximum boost clocks. Overclockers can override this limit, and let the processor heat all the way up to 105°C, at which point the processor will unconditionally shut the system down (thermal-trip).

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.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with its new Zen 4 architecture easily bests the Intel Core i9-12900K in most benchmarks. Even in gaming, the Ryzen 9 7950X equals or bests the Intel Core i9-12900K in most benchmarks at 1080p. The inbuilt RDNA 2 graphics cores have their work cut out for them to match Intel's Xe in terms of AI workloads. For the price of approximately INR 70,000, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X is one of the prime candidates for an enthusiast gaming and content creation rig.

In this review we've examined the Ryzen 9 7950X, the company's new flagship featuring a 16-core/32-thread configuration. The chip runs at a base clock of 4.5 GHz and boosts up to 5.7 GHz—an 800 MHz increase over the 5950X. AMD has also increased the TDP from 105 W to 170 W, which brings with it more headroom for boosting to higher clocks, but also increases cooling requirements, more on that later.

AMD launched its Ryzen 5000 – Zen 3 – desktop processors back in late 2020. Coupled with the venerable AM4 platform, the variety of 7nm-built chips have proven incredibly successful. But that AM4 platform has been around for six years. It’s time for an update. Enter the new AM5 platform, with the first chips for this new platform, the Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 series, launching today. We are examining the 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X flagship and the 8-core Ryzen 7 7700X. The 12- and 6-core reviews will follow in the near future. With a new underlying – Zen 4 – architecture, DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5 support on the AM5 platform, and manufacturing using TSMC’s 5nm process node, let’s take a closer look at the £739.99 Ryzen 9 7950X and the £419.99 Ryzen 7 7700X.

So that’s everything we have for you as of now with the Ryzen 9 7950X but here’s the age-old question – is it really worth your money? Well, I’d say that totally depends on what you are currently using right now.

AMD does well on the performance side; however, we observe scarce IPC improvement of just 3%, which may be combined with clock frequency reaching ~ 5.5 GHz on some cores. That IPC made AMD pull open all available registers, the trade-off being thermal- and energy efficiency. Combined with the new AM5 platforms, you'll now also get access to PCIe Gen 5. Very lovely, however at the time of writing, remains a bit useless, as no graphics card is even compatible, let alone actually needs 16x PCie gen 5 lanes. For SSDs we had hoped that AMD would have seeded some samples as well, but nothing is ready/available just yet. BTW I am not overly confident that PCIe Gen 5 SSD will make a real-world difference; yes, sustained speeds will pass 10GB/s however you'll presumably get the very same 4K read/write performance as really the biggest thing going is bandwidth. We also think that cooling will be an issue for Gen5-compatible NVMe SSDs. The AM5 board designs already show that all M2 heatsinks have massive coolers.

It's fair to say that the Ryzen design totally rejuvenated AMD. The first group showed promise, the second iteration refined that formula and by the 3000 series they were a legitimate contender. So much so that the 5000 series saw a huge uptick in the amount of people that had an AMD CPU in their system thanks to its combination of performance and affordability. Being available on the same platform as preceding processors also made it much easier to upgrade too. There are few things worse than buying a new system and having to throw most of it away just to upgrade.

Overall, when comparing AMD's new Zen 4 core to their previous Zen 3 microarchitecture, it's a big win for AMD regarding multi-threaded performance. Through the improvement of many aspects, including the switch to a higher transistor count through TSMC's 5 nm manufacturing process, higher core frequencies including both single and all-core, and the switch to DDR5 from DDR4, all of these make for a double-digit improvement to IPC performance.

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.

AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X deliver impressive performance gains that beat Alder Lake in most types of workloads, including gaming. The Ryzen 9 7950X stands out as the fastest productivity chip for mainstream systems on the market, while the Ryzen 5 7600X sets a new bar for gaming chips at the $300 price point.