The recently launched AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X have been the subject of much… apathy? Indifference? Underwhelm?

The Zen 5 chip is somewhat mysterious ... the direct replacement for the existing Ryzen 7 7700X. On the flip side, what stands out from the CPU-Z screenshot is the 170W TDP.

with a 58.5 percent lead for the newer chip. Having more cores, and faster cores, really has a big impact, so we'd suggest something like the Ryzen 7600 or 7700X if workloads like video ...

It's fair to say that AMD's latest run of CPUs, the Ryzen 9000 series ... its predecessor, the 7700X. It's a potent chip for content creation workloads, with faster Zen 5 cores contributing ...

Promise. March 20, 2025: We have added the new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D to the page as the rightful king of the best high-end CPU section. We did consider putting it in as the overall best gaming CPU ...

The 9700X will operate at up to 5.5 GHz with a 40MB cache and a TDP ... This is more than the Ryzen 7 7700X's 65 watts, but less than the two existing Ryzen 9 170 watts out of the box.

It measured the Ryzen 7 9700X (Zen 5) and the 7700X (Zen 4) and the two CPUs exhibited an impressive average performance boost of 11% and 10% respectively, vs Windows 11 23H2. It is noteworthy ...

In games they were no faster than the far cheaper Ryzen 7 7800X3D. With AMD’s Zen 5 X3D models, though, it has flipped the 3D V-Cache and cores so the cores now sit on top and the result with ...