AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X3D are the ultimate expression of their 7000 series processors, with crushing creative performance and even more impressive gaming performance, and are utterly worthy of our OC3D Enthusiast Award. The bar has been raised.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X is one of the most powerful processors in the Ryzen 7000 Series and offers up a lot of gaming power, even if it does fall a little short when compared to the Intel Core i9-13900K.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X is one of the best desktop CPUs that the company has launched in the market. It is the ideal processor for anyone looking to both game and work with heavy, demanding workloads like content creation and more. Though the initial...

The Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X bring the Zen 4 architecture and new connectivity, like PCIe 5.0 and DDR5. The Ryzen 9 7950X slots in as the overall performance champ for PCs, while the Ryzen 5 7600X is unquestionably the fastest gaming chip on the market for $300.

While the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processor isn't going to be the chip of choice for gamers on a budget, for creators, it offers a huge increase over previous Zen 3 chips with the downside of an entirely new platform.

In the end, it appears AMD has another winner on its hands. Since introducing its first-gen Ryzen processors in 2017, AMD has consistently pushed its desktop platform forward and the company hasn’t let up on the gas. The Ryzen 7000 series is a clear and significant upgrade over the previous generation in virtually every way, from performance to its leading-edge IO, and we haven’t even seen the best from the platform yet.

AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X offers outstanding multi-threaded, single-threaded, and gaming performance numbers. The lofty performance figures more than justify its high power consumption and aggressive thermals.

AMD wants $700 for the Ryzen 9 7950X, which is a lot of money, but you get an awesome CPU for that. It can handle the toughest workloads, as long as they scale well across multiple cores. Less parallelizable workloads run very fast, too, thanks to the highest boost clock in the Zen 4 range, but the differences will be smaller. The Ryzen 9 5950X is currently $550, even at that price point it makes sense to prefer the 7950X—its price/performance ratio is slightly better, and you get a better upgrade path.