AMD RYZEN 7000 Series

 

AMD Ryzen 7000: Specifications

The AMD Ryzen 7000 series, codename “Raphael” processors, is AMD’s new series of processors. At an event in August, the company details of the first four CPUs in this series, which will be available by late September 2022. AMD claims that this new processor series will change the CPU market, delivering top speed and performance aligned with AMD’s benchmarks.

• Ryzen 9 7950X
• Ryzen 9 7900X
• Ryzen 7 7700X
• Ryzen 5 7600X

Key specs

AMD released several details about the processors in its 7000 series lineup. The new chips boast the world’s first 5 nm processor and operate on the Zen 4 core architecture, boosting the performance in various regards. In addition, the new processors come with the latest PCIe Gen 5 and DDR5 memory compatibility to increase raw performance.

AMD’s frontrunner chip, the Ryzen 9 7950X, is a performance beast, with an impressive 16 cores, 32 threads, higher clock speeds (up to 5.7 GHz!), and a 13% improvement in IPC through the Zen 4 architecture, resulting in a 29% improvement in single-threaded performance and a 45% improvement in multi-threaded performance-per-watt over the previous-gen Ryzen chips. The Ryzen 7000 chips also integrate Radeon RDNA 2 graphics and AVX-512-based support for AI instructions.

The specifications for each Ryzen 7000 series processor are outlined below:

1. Ryzen 9 7950X
   • 16 cores
   • 32 threads
   • Clock speeds: 4.5 GHz base, 5.7 GHz max boost
   • 80Mb cache
   • TDP: 170W, 230W max
2. Ryzen 9 7900X
   • 12 cores
   • 24 threads
   • Clock speeds: 4.7 GHz base, 5.6 GHz max boost
   • 76Mb cache
   • TDP: 170W, 230W max
3. Ryzen 7 7700X
   • 8 cores
   • 16 threads
   • Clock speeds: 4.5 GHz base, 5.4 GHz max boost
   • 40Mb cache
   • TDP: 105W
4. Ryzen 5 7600X
   • 6 cores
   • 12 threads
   • Clock speed: 4.7 GHz base, 5.3 GHz max boost
   • 38Mb cache
   • TDP: 105W

Other general features across all models include:

• Two 5nm Zen 4 CPU modules
• 6nm I/O die
• PCIe 5.0 controllers
• DDR5-5200 memory, providing up to 125% more memory bandwidth per core
• RDNA 2 integrated GPU
• AM5 Socket LGA 1718, backward compatible with AM4 coolers
• 600-Series Chipset: X670E Extreme, X670, B650E Extreme, and B650 Motherboards
• AI Support via AVX-512 VNNI

AMD claims that the Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X are respectively 11% and 5% faster in gaming than the Core i9-12900K, intel’s fastest CPU. Furthermore, AMD claims that the Ryzen 9 7950X provides 57% better content creation performance than intel’s Core i9-12900K and, more importantly, more power efficient. AMD claims that the 7950X has about 47% more power efficiency than Intel’s i9-12900K, reducing overheating in desktops and improving laptop battery life.

Integrated GPU

All processors in the Ryzen 7000 series have an RDNA 2-powered iGPU. This means there will be no need to buy a GPU component for any Ryzen 7000 processor you get, nor will there be a release of any ‘G’ variants of the 7000 series.