We have already taken a look at three of AMD’s four new Ryzen 7000 processors. Next up is the 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X. And we have comparison data from its two main competitors – the Core i9-13900K and Core i7-13700K – to help us in our assessment of the chip. So, what does this 12-core, £560 Zen 4 chip have to offer? And with a very clear price zone being occupied, can this work out to be a sensible purchase option on AMD’s new, feature-rich AM5 platform? Let’s take a closer look. Watch via our Vimeo Channel (Below) or over on YouTube at 2160p HERE Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:18 A closer look – 7900X specs 03:43 Test setup 05:27 Power, clocks and thermals 06:24 CPU benchmarks 07:55 1080p game benchmarks 08:58 PBO / overclocking / ECO 10:14 OC/ECO results 10:56 Performance per Watt 11:18 Closing thoughts Ryzen 9 7900X has 12 cores and 24 threads with 76MB of total cache – 64MB of which is L3. Base clock of the new TSMC 5nm-fabbed chip is listed at 4.7GHz, and maximum boost clock is 5.6GHz. The 7900X’s TDP is 170W, meaning that it will get up to 230W of package power
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