AMD Ryzen 7000: Officially released on September 27 with prices starting at $299   

These are the official benchmarks

True to its promise, AMD held a special presentation on August 30, revealing the last details we need to know about the Ryzen 7000 processors , such as their final performance, their release date and of course their price.

Starting things off, AMD will initially launch four models , with the most affordable member of the new Zen 4 architecture family being the $299 Ryzen 5 7600X. All new AMD proposals come with the same number of cores compared to the previous generation, however the frequency is significantly increased, reaching up to +800MHz. This, combined with the +13% improvement in IPC thanks to the new architecture, results in 29% better performance in single-threaded processes compared to previous generation models. At the same time, AMD claims to have recorded up to 45% better performance in more demanding multi-threaded applications.

Specifically, AMD highlights that these new chips offer a huge performance boost over the previous generation Ryzen 5000 models, being 29% better in gaming and 44% better in productivity applications . Compared to rival Intel’s awe, AMD claims that the high-end 7950X is overall 11% faster in gaming than the 12900K, and that even the low-end Ryzen 5 7600X beats the 12900K by 5% in gaming. Of course, the company’s official benchmarks come with a lot of… fine print.

It should be noted at this point that the Ryzen 7000 will come to the market on September 27 , together with the new AM5 platform, which the company will support at least until 2025. These new motherboards will support DDR5 memories and the PCIe 5.0 interface .

The prices of the first AMD Ryzen 7000 models:

Ryzen 9 7950X – $699

Ryzen 9 7900X – $549

Ryzen 7 7700X – $399

Ryzen 5 7600X – $299

The technical specifications of the first AMD Ryzen 7000 models:

Model	Cores / Threads (P+E)	Base / Boost Clock (GHz)	Cache (L2+L3)	TDP / Max	Memory
Ryzen 9 7950X	16 / 32	4.5 / 5.7	80MB	170W / 230W	DDR5-5200
Ryzen 9 7900X	12 / 24	4.7 / 5.6	76MB	170W / 230W	DDR5-5200
Ryzen 7 7700X	8 / 16	4.5 / 5.4	40MB	105W/-	DDR5-5200
Ryzen 5 7600X	6 / 12	4.7 / 5.3	38MB	105W/-	DDR5-5200

AMD’s official Ryzen 7000 benchmarks:

The information we already knew about the Ryzen 7000 and the AM5 platform:

In case you need a refresher, the new Ryzen 7000s will be the world’s first desktop processors with 5nm CPU cores. In particular, AMD uses 5nm CPU chiplets for the cores, a 6nm I/O die and will integrate RDNA 2 architecture graphics for the first time in all its models. At the same time, they will come with twice the L2 cache, with the size now reaching 1MB per core, while the new architecture offers 15% better single-threaded performance (but not only through better IPC), will support DDR5 memories and an impressive maximum boost frequency that will exceed 5GHz.

Of course, this maximum frequency can only be achieved by one core in workloads that require it, as is the case with the Zen 2 and Zen 3 processors. It is also worth noting that the new Ryzen 7000 processors will also support additional instructions to accelerate AI processes. Finally, the new AM5 socket that will accommodate them raises the maximum power supply to 170W, an increase of 28W compared to the maximum of 142W of the previous socket.