At the last presentation, AMD introduced the public to the new Ryzen 7000 series processors. This is the fifth generation of Ryzen processors from the manufacturer and one of the most important novelties of the entire line: it is in it that AMD switches to a new socket, the Zen4 architecture, introduces support for PCI-e 5.0 and memory DDR5.

In total, four models will go on sale on the 27th: the popular Ryzen 5 7600X, the pre-top Ryzen 7 7700X and two flagships - Ryzen 9 7900X and Ryzen 9 7950X. As you can see, end-to-end marking has been preserved, so people who are familiar with the company's products will not be difficult to navigate in new processors.

The popular Ryzen 5 will be equipped with 6 cores with 12 threads, older models - 8, 12 and 16 cores, respectively. All cores will run in dual-threaded mode.

The highlight of the presentation was a comparison of the performance of the new AMD processors with Intel processors. Usually comparisons are made between products of the same class and price range to show the advantage of their products, but this year AMD has gone further. Probably, the fact is that due to the lag of one production cycle in the last year, after the release of the 12th generation of Intel Core, only the lazy did not kick the red ones.

At their presentation, AMD compared the performance of the Intel Core 12900K not with Ryzen 9 or even with Ryzen 7 - the older processors in the line, but with the popular Ryzen 5 7600X worth only $ 300:

Perhaps AMD's goal was to show the total dominance of the new Ryzen 7000 over the 12th generation Intel, but in any case, marketers have achieved a wow effect. According to the company's charts, the Ryzen 5 is almost on par with Intel's flagship, which has a MSRP of $589 versus $300 for the Ryzen 5 7600X.

The comparison of flagships is made between two generations of Ryzen:

Those who closely follow the computer hardware market know that there was conditional parity in performance between the i9-12900K and the Ryzen 9 5950X, with a margin towards Intel at an average level of 3-7% in individual cases. Of course, there were tasks that the i9-12900K did much better. The solution from Intel was also more attractive due to the lower retail price of the processor and support for PCI-e 5.0 and DDR5, which was not available in the previous generation of Ryzen processors.

But based on the data on the slide above, you can already predict the performance gap between the 7950X and 12900K, based on the benchmark data between the Ryzen 9 5950X and 12900K. Tom's Hardware released a big review of Intel and AMD processors in the fall of 2021, and based on the results obtained there, hard times are coming for Intel:

In the meantime, AMD claims a fantastic dominance of the Ryzen 9 7950X over the i9-12900K at 57%.

However, this information, before receiving independent test results, should be taken critically, because if you look at the comparison with the Ryzen 9 5950X, there is not so big.

The fifth series of Ryzen was pulled down by the old socket, which ensured backward compatibility of budget and mid-range models with old motherboards, as well as the Zen3 architecture, from which AMD was already squeezing the latest juices. The transition to Zen 4 and socket AM5 with new chipsets will definitely give a serious boost to all the company's products, from budget models to flagships.

Of course, both the increased stock and maximum frequencies of the cores and the increased TDP are impressive. And if in the first case AMD has achieved real success, then the nameplate heat dissipation of 170 W causes some concern. Here is a baseline comparison of the latest two generations of processors from AMD:

To effectively dissipate 170 W of heat, you will need not only a good CPU cooling system, but also a large, well-ventilated PC case, because no one has canceled the “brazier” in the form of a modern video card. At the same time, the cost of cooling systems capable of effectively dissipating 170 W does not start from a few tens of dollars - these are rather large dual-radiator towers or dropsies with an external fan unit for several hundred. It is also worth remembering that although the passport temperature of modern processors is up to 95 degrees, the real slowdown of the cores begins already at around 65-70 degrees. So, Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X were not recommended to heat above 65-68 degrees under load, otherwise hardware frequency reduction would inevitably begin to avoid throttling. At the same time, the TDP passport of these processors is 105 W against 170 W for the new products corresponding to the model, which can add problems to consumers.

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