Among AMD's bold claims about Zen 5's gaming performance was that the Ryzen 7 9700X would be 6% faster than Intel's Core i7-14700K. However, AMD has since walked back this claim, stating in a blog ...

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The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X has a tough job, following up from the controversial Ryzen 7000 lineup. Because while the last generation of AMD processors really pushed performance to a new level, it did so ...

AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs have arrived, marking the debut of the more powerful and efficient Zen 5 architecture and a quartet of Dragon Ball Z meme-adjacent processor numbers: 9600X, 9700X, 9900X and ...

The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 9 7900X are some of the most powerful mid-premium gaming chips you can buy. Both processors are designed to handle the most powerful graphics cards on the market.

It's fair to say that AMD's latest run of CPUs, the Ryzen 9000 series arrived with a lot of fanfare but not too much in terms of an overall performance against their predecessors. With this in mind, ...

The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 7 7700X are some of the best eight-core CPUs in the market. Both chips are set to offer some of the best price-to-performance for high-end gaming systems and can be ...

Meet double O seven with a nine up front, our Ryzen 7 9700X review, this young rascal has eight cores and sixteen threads based on the new Zen5 architecture. The CPU will be analyzed, tested, and ...