AMD Ryzen 9 7900 & Ryzen 7 7700 Review

1. 65W AMD Ryzen 70002. A Closer Look - AMD's Zen 4 Architecture3. A Closer Look - The AM5 Platform4. Testing Methodology5. Overclocking6. Technical: Power Consumption and Temperatures7. CPU Tests: Blender & Cinebench8. CPU Tests: Handbrake & 7-Zip9. Memory Tests: Memory Bandwidth and Latency10. Synthetic Gaming: 3DMark11. Gaming: 1080p Gaming Performance12. Performance Per Watt13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

Borderlands 3 has clearly benefitted from game, AGESA, and BIOS updates since we tested the original Ryzen 7000 series processors.

With that said, the new 65W Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 have no problems pushing out lofty frame rates of over 144 FPS average. Even the 1% lows are well above 100 FPS.

Far Cry 6 is clearly frequency sensitive, and this means that the non-X processors are a little behind their X siblings.

There really isn’t much in it, though, and with the anticipated price savings of the non-X chips, they’re probably better buys.

Hitman 3 is another result that looks very favourably on the Ryzen 9 7900. The Ryzen 7 7700 matches the 7700X perfectly, too, so no problems with the non-X chips here.

And Shadow of the Tomb Raider shows similar performance numbers between the X and non-X Ryzen 7000 parts. Albeit with the Ryzen 9 7900 and our updated test platform having better 1% low results.

Gaming Summary

Gaming performance on these new non-X chips looks to be absolutely fine versus the Intel and AMD X competitors.

The reality is that you are likely to run out of GPU horsepower before hitting frame rates in excess of what the CPUs can handle. And that’s especially true if you’re gaming at 1440p or above – as we’d imagine most Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 buyers are.

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