AMD's Ryzen 7 7700X CPU has been spotted in some leaked benchmarks showing impressive performance in many ways.
The 7700X was reported in a (now deleted) CPU-Z test that was posted on Twitter by well-known leaker Tum_Apisak (courtesy of Tom's Hardware - opens in a new tab)).
The next generation AMD processor achieved a single thread score of 774 and a multi-thread score of 8381. The latter shows that the 7700X outperforms Intel's flagship Core i9-12900K by 1% and compared to the Core i7-12700K, the AMD chip was 8% faster. Compare this multi-core result to the Ryzen 7 5800X and the incoming processor is 28% faster.
For single thread, the picture isn't that great for AMD, with the 7700K trailing behind the 12700K in this case, and roughly equal to the 12600K in fact (the Ryzen CPU was 1% faster than the latter). However, the 7700K outperformed the 5800X by 21% on a single thread.
Tum_Apisak also provided a screenshot (opens in a new tab) on CPU-Z showing the retail version of the 7700X (apparently a model sent to a reviewer) ramping up to 5425 MHz on all cores, which is way off. above the official 5.4GHz nominal boost (by 25MHz - of course, depending on the quality of chip you get, a 7700X might be able to push a bit more than that during max boost).
This screenshot also shows the 105W TDP for the CPU and that the 7700X was tested on a Gigabyte X670E Aorus Master motherboard with DDR5-6400 system RAM.
Another leak reported by VideoCardz (opens in a new tab) further shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X on Geekbench hit 2209 single-core and 14,459 multi-core, easily beating the Core i7-12700K by a 16% margin in the former. , but being much closer in multicore with only 2% in favor of the AMD processor.
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This will be the Zen 4 processor that a lot of people will be looking at, as it sits at the sweet spot of an 8-core model. While many people still have 6-core (or even quad-core) processors, 8-core chips are advancing rapidly, and that's what you really need to consider in terms of future-proofing these days. The 7700X is still a relatively affordable processor at $399 (about $345 / AU$590), certainly compared to the 5800X that debuted at the launch of Zen 3 and was $50 more expensive in the US ( There was no 5700X model at launch with the Ryzen 5000 in the middle).
As always, we need to be very careful with early benchmark leaks, but should Intel be concerned here? Well, the 7700X does an impressive job of outperforming the Core i9-12900K slightly in multi-threading performance, but we have to take the more experienced CPU-Z benchmarks than normal in terms of reflecting actual performance (and , of course, the game). frame rates that will be of interest to many people).
Single-threaded performance for AMD seems shakier, but again, don't put too much stock in those pre-launch comparisons with CPU-Z (although the outgoing 5800X is easily beaten).
What we also need to remember is that Intel has its own line of next generation processors, Raptor Lake, which is about to launch, not only with IPC (instructions per clock) gains, but also with a bunch of additional efficiency cores. compared to Alder. . Lake (double in the case of the 13th Gen flagship and the 13700K). So based on the Geekbench result above for the 7700X, it outperforms the current 12700K by 2% multicore, but with the generational gains for the 13700K and the doubling of the efficiency cores (8 instead of 4), well, when Team Blue be next: Rival Gene Launches, those comparisons could be very different.
Ultimately, we'll only know when that happens, but for now, we'll continue to repeat what we've said in the recent past: that it still looks like the Ryzen 7000 and Raptor Lake are going to make good progress with performance. , and decisions may be made based on other factors. By that we mean things like cost comparisons and upgrading to an entirely new platform in AMD's case (Intel 13th Gen CPUs will still be good with Alder Lake motherboards, but won't offer any other upgrade paths in the future). future).
Oh, and patience could play a part, as AMD will be on the scene with next-gen processors in just a few weeks, while Raptor Lake is apparently looking at mid-October, or maybe a bit later, to its release schedule. . And with Team Red expected to have a high-volume launch, leaving resellers in the cold, as Raptor Lake rumormongers have been concerned about pricing for some time now, with Intel looking to raise prices of some of its chips for sure, there's certainly reason to believe that AMD will have key advantages in the battle for next-generation processors.
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