AMD has officially unveiled its Ryzen 7000 desktop processor lineup, announcing the new range's pricing and availability details for the first four SKUs. Multiple leaks in the lead-up to the official announcement revealed several details about AMD's next-gen CPUs. According to the leaks, the lineup is expected to include the 'Raphael' chips for desktops, 'Dragon Range' for enthusiast gaming laptops, and 'Phoenix' for thin and light gaming notebooks. The company has also extensively teased the new chips over the past few weeks, including at Computex 2022 in May.
The launch of the Ryzen 7000 lineup comes nearly two years after AMD first released its Ryzen 5000 desktop processors for consumers. Based on the Zen 3 architecture, the Ryzen 5000-series starts from $299 for the six-core, 12-threaded Ryzen 5 5600X and goes up to $799 for the Ryzen 9 5950X, which offers 16 cores and 32 threads for multithreaded workloads. The Ryzen 7000 lineup is expected to provide multiple chips with different thread counts and at various price points.
The first batch of AMD's Ryzen 7000 range includes four different CPUs aimed at the gaming and enthusiast market. Starting with the top-end Zen 4 chip, the Ryzen 9 7950X is a 16-core, 32-thread behemoth that comes with a 4.5GHz base clock and a 5.7GHz boost clock. It has a 170W TDP and is priced at $699. The next chip in the lineup is the Ryzen 9 7900X, which is a 12-core, 24-thread part clocked at 4.7GHz (base). It has a 5.6GHz boost clock and a 170W TDP. It is priced at $549.
AMD Ryzen 7000 Details
The other two CPUs in the lineup include the Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X. The former is a $399 part with eight cores and 16 threads. It has a 4.5GHz base clock, a 5.4GHz boost clock and a 105W TDP. Finally, the most affordable CPU in the Ryzen 7000 lineup is the Ryzen 5 7600X, which offers six cores and 12 threads. It has a 4.7GHz base clock, a 5.3GHz boost clock and a 105W TDP. It is priced at $299.
While the core counts in the Zen 3 and Zen 4 lineups remain the same for corresponding CPUs, AMD says that the new chips have been optimized to include an average of about 13 percent more instructions-per-clock (IPC). The clock speeds are also higher than the last-gen models, resulting in the 7950X being around 29 percent faster than the 5950X in single-threaded performance.
The Ryzen 7000 CPUs will require the AM5 socket and will only be compatible with DDR5 memory. They will, however, support third-party AM4-compatible coolers. AMD did not say when the more affordable Ryzen 7000 chips would launch, but speculations suggest that consumers will have to wait until next year for that.
Source: AMD