AMD Ryzen 7 9700X CPU Review

Today sees the AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPUs launching and AMD have done it in 2 parts with Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 reviews going live today and Ryzen 9 parts going live a little later in the month. We’ve managed to get our hands on the Ryzen 7 9700X, a CPU that comes in with the same core and thread count as its predecessor, the 7700X, as well as being 700MHz….slower. This, should be interesting.

Ok, so first things first. I want to address the elephant in the room. You may or may not have seen that we posted on social media just under a week ago about how we weren’t getting sampled for this launch, and at the time of writing and filming this, it’s less than 24 hours until the embargo launch time, so we’ve had to scramble things together pretty quickly, without looking to reduce our benchmarks down, so you can expect our usual in-depth run of tests as well as a ton of content on this chip in the coming weeks with memory scaling, a full 42 game suite of tests, and some head to heads too, so make sure you stick around for that. That aside, we were able to source a chip and here we are with the 9700X, a CPU that on paper doesn’t seem all that dissimilar from the Ryzen 7 7700X.

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Specifications:

• Cores: 8
• Threads: 16
• Base Clock: 3.8 GHz
• Boost Clock: Up to 5.5 GHz
• L3 Cache: 32 MB
• TDP: 65W
• Socket: AM5
• Architecture: Zen 5 (Granite Ridge)
• Process Node: 4nm
• Integrated Graphics: AMD Radeon™ Graphics
• PCIe Version: PCIe® 5.0

Additional Features:

• Unlocked for overclocking
• AMD EXPO™ Technology support