AMD Ryzen 7 – All The Generations Tested

In the past few weeks KitGuru has reviewed four AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs. Then, just as things were calming down, AMD told us about a Windows 11 Update that would – apparently – transform the performance of their new Zen 5 technology.

Naturally we had to dig into that and we are please to see over 100,000 of our audience came along for the ride (HERE).

All that benchmarking made us wonder exactly what counts as decent generational uplift. Is 5 percent pathetic? is ten percent OK? or should we demand at lease 20 percent from each and every generation. Our solution was to line up ten different models of AMD Ryzen 7 from the original Zen 1800X right up to the Zen 7 9700X. Spoiler alter, there are graphs ahead.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro
02:07 Background, thoughts and moving targets
03:15 The goal – generational improvements?
03:48 System hardware
05:44 Results
12:16 Closing thoughts / Windows updates

Test systems
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9000 and Ryzen 7000
Motherboard: MSI MEG X670E Ace
RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C30

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 3000
Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus
RAM: 32GB Corsair LPX DDR4-3600 C16

CPU: AMD Ryzen 2000 and Ryzen 000
Motherboard: Gigabyte X470 Aorus Faming 7 WiFi
RAM: 16GB G.Skill Flare X DDR4-3200 C14

Shared parts for all test systems:
Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming OC 16GB
CPU cooler: Phanteks Glacier One 360D30
SSD: 1TB Crucial T700
Power Supply: Seasonic Prime GX-1600 ATX 3.0

2024 Zen 5 Granite Ridge Ryzen 9000, Socket AM5 on TSMC 4nm, I/O die is TSMC 6nm with DDR5. 80KB L1 per core, 1MB L2 per core, 28x lanes of PCIe Gen 5.
IO die is still 9.7mm x 12.6mm = 122.2mm2
Ryzen 7 9700X £340 inc VAT

2022 Zen 4 Raphael Ryzen 7000, Socket AM5 on TSMC 5nm, I/O die is TSMC 6nm with DDR5. 64KB L1 per core, 1MB L2 per core, 28x lanes of PCIe Gen 5.
7800X3D £350 inc VAT today, $449/£479 inc VAT at launch in April 2023
7700X £300 inc VAT today, $399/£420 inc VAT at launch in September 2022
7700 non-X £290 inc VAT today, $309/£340 inc VAT at launch in January 2023

2020 Zen 3 Vermeer Ryzen 5000, Socket AM4 on TSMC 7nm with DDR4. 64KB L1 per core, 512KB L2 per core, 24x lanes of PCIe Gen 4.
Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Ryzen 7 5800X is £180 inc VAT today, $449/£420 inc VAT at launch in November 2020
105W TDP,2019 Zen 2 Matisse Ryzen 3000, Socket AM4 on TSMC 7nm, I/O on Global Foundries 12nm with DDR4. 64KB L1 per core, 512KB L2 per core, 32MB L3. 24x lanes of PCIe Gen 4.
Ryzen 7 3700X, base clock 3.6GHz, Max Boost 4.4GHz

2018 Zen+ Pinnacle Ridge Ryzen 2000, Socket AM4 on Global Foundries 12nm with DDR4. 96KB L1 per core, 512KB L2 per core, 16MB shared L3. 24x lanes of PCIe Gen 3.
Ryzen 7 2700X, base clock 3.7GHz, Max Boost 4.3GHz

2017 Zen Summit Ridge Ryzen 1000, Socket AM4 on Global Foundries 14nm with DDR4. 96KB L1 per core, 512KB L2 per core, 16MB or 8MB shared L3?. 24x lanes of PCIe Gen 3.
Ryzen 7 1800X, 95W TDP, base clock 3.6GHz, Max Boost 4.0GHz, XFR 4.1GHz

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