Specifications and FeaturesĪMD’s Ryzen CPUs still use the same general layout with an I/O die (IOD) and up to two Core Cluster Dies (CCD) per CPU. We also include the i9-12900K (16-core $564) and the Ryzen 9 5950X (16-core $549) for comparison to align core count and pricing. Today we have the 12-core, 24-thread RyX with a suggested E-tail price of $549 and the Ryzen 7 7700X (SEP $399) to run through our testing suite. We have also included a list of SKUs with specifications and pricing below.

The new RyX has a suggested release price of $699, which is $100.00 less than the RyX released in November 2020, nearly two years ago. First, we have the switch from 7 nm to TSMC’s 5 nm process node, DDR5 memory, and the next generation PCI Express 5.0. The flagship CPU using the new Zen 4 architecture, code-named Raphael, is a 16-core, 32-thread CPU with a maximum boost speed of 5.7 GHz, yes, you read that correctly, and we’ll elaborate more on this later. This round of Ryzen CPUs comes with a laundry list of changes. After nearly two years, AMD is back with their newest Desktop processor based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture.

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