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(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)AMD’s 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X carries a $549 price tag that slots in between Intel's flagship Core i9 and Core i7 chips, but its performance defies the middle ground placement. Given its price point and gaming performance that matches or exceeds Intel's finest, paired with strong performance in desktop PC applications, the Ryzen 9 7900X appears to be a contender for our list of Best CPUs and our CPU Benchmark hierarchy. But there's a lot more at play than just chip pricing. Like the other…

Photo: Damien Gula / GizmodoIn case the leaks and lofty presentations that dropped over the summer did not make it clear enough, AMD’s newly released Zen 4 platform is aiming to compete with Intel for the title of World’s Fastest Gaming CPU. With claims of higher power delivery per watt, an improved architecture, astronomical increases in single core performance, and continued dominance in the multicore arena, the Ryzen 7000 series has a myriad of legendary promises to live up to.Do the chips live up to the hype?AMD Ryzen…

Intel took the desktop CPU performance crown last year with its Core i9-12900K processor. And now, nearly a year later, AMD is ready to trade blows again with its next-generation Ryzen Zen 4 CPUs. Fabbed on TSMC’s 5nm process node, AMD has promised big gains for its latest Ryzen 7000 chips over its previous Zen 3 (Ryzen 5000 series) desktop generation.The flagship Ryzen 9 7950X chip is priced at $699 and features 16 cores, 32 threads, and a boost clock of up to 5.7GHz. We won’t be reviewing that flagship chip just yet, as…

According to a new Geekbench 5 score, shared by @BenchLeaks on Twitter, the Ryzen 9 7900X garners a 30% lead over its predecessor, the Ryzen 9 5900X, in Geekbench 5 multi-core and single-core tests. It is enough to potentially land the all-new 7900X a spot in our best CPUs tier list once it arrives in our labs.The Ryzen 9 7900X scored 2,167 points in the single-threaded test, while in the multi-threaded test, it scored 18,446. According to the official Geekbench browser stats page, the Ryzen 9 5900X scored 1,669 points…

AMD has unveiled the next-generation Ryzen 7000 processors, and amongst them are the two flagships: the Ryzen 9 7950X and the Ryzen 9 7900X. These enthusiast-grade processors are said to deliver intense levels of performance, but they both differ from one another in a number of ways. Is the Ryzen 9 7950X worth the extra money? Does it bring a massive upgrade over the 7900X? We’ll explore the ins and outs of these two processors to judge which one is the better pick if you’re shopping for a new AMD CPU. Specs AMD…