The flagship Ryzen 9 7950X and its fellow launch chips (Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X, and Ryzen 5 7600X) also mark the dawn of the AM5 era. This new motherboard socket platform enables faster ...

Simply put, AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 7950X is a multi-threading monster of a mainstream CPU. It commands a hefty power draw, an even heftier cooler, and (most consequential to you) a steep price ...

The Ryzen 9 7950X actually sells for $699 which is $100 less than the Ryzen 9 5950X did when it launched in 2020. The Ryzen 7 7700X sells for $399, and while there was no Ryzen 7 5700X ...

The Ryzen 9 7950X has been AMD’s best processor for a while, but it now faces some serious competition. We don’t just mean AMD’s long-standing rival, Intel. AMD itself has created a CPU that ...

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 ...

AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X is the third generation of desktop 16-core processors and has a lot to live up to. It represents the pinnacle of mainstream desktop performance, demands a premium price and ...

Intel launched its 13th-generation Raptor Lake processors with the 24-core Core i9-13900K — and on the same day that AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X hit store shelves. The Core i9-13900K and Ryzen 9 7950X ...

Ryzen 7000 is more than just AMD’s latest batch of processors. The Ryzen 7950X, 7900X, 7700X, and 7600X are AMD’s first Zen 4 chips, first produced on 5nm, first to sport integrated graphics ...

AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X is the kind of CPU that genuinely makes everything faster—gaming, streaming, content creation, or whatever else you’re pushing through your desktop. It’s packing 16 ...

Here’s how it works. AMD's Ryzen 7000 processors using Zen 4 remain top options despite the launch of new Ryzen 9000 desktop chips, and the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7950X are at the top of the list ...

[Editors' Note, March 2, 2023: Some scrutiny by Tom's Hardware and online commenters pointed out that our integrated graphics (IGP) testing numbers for the Ryzen 9 7950X chip were unnaturally low ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X still has the same 16 cores (and 32 threads via SMT) as the previous Ryzen 9 5950X, and it's similarly based on two core complex dies (CCDs) with eight cores each.