The Ryzen 7000 series CPUs have just launched, and they are just like a cool, gentle breeze for gamers as they bring amazing performance at a cost. Today I’ll review the CPUs known as the Ryzen 5 7600, Ryzen 7 77,00, and Ryzen 9 7,900 and the X lineup of the same CPUs. Before reviewing the CPUs, let’s compare both of their specs a bit:
Main Specs Comparison:
| CPU | Ryzen 5 7600 | Ryzen 5 7600 X | Ryzen 7 7700 | Ryzen 7 7700x | Ryzen 9 7900 | Ryzen 9 7900 X |
| Base Clock(GHz) | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.7 |
| Boost Clock(GHz) | 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.6 |
| TDP(Watts) | 65 | 105 | 65 | 105 | 65 | 170 |
| Max Power(Watts) | 88 | 142 | 88 | 142 | 88 | 230 |
| Price($) | 229 | 299 | 329 | 399 | 429 | 549 |
AMD Ryzen 7000X vs 7000:
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X and Non-X Variant Difference:
For all of you confused about the difference between the “X” and “non-X” series, let me clarify, the X series only has the significant difference of having a dedicated GPU, which is only functional for lighting up your screen and making your Operating System function.
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Gaming Performance Benchmarks:
If we talk about the gaming performance of these CPUs, it can be easily judged by their gaming benchmarks. I’ll share a Benchmark below for reference:
We can see from this Gaming benchmark (Shadow of The Tomb Raider) that the performance of the X and Non-X Variants is quite similar except for the 7900X which gaps its non-X brother by some margin whereas if we talk about the other CPUs, we can see that they are pretty much neck and neck over here. Make note that this game is a CPU-dependent title.
Now let’s take a look at another benchmark to clarify things a bit:
We can see from here that the performance of the Non-X counterparts is pretty much on par with the X variant, which is something buyers should be wary of, as buyers might spend more money than intended for no purpose.
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Work-Related Benchmarks:
We know that some of you people don’t really care about gaming and have to do other stuff like rendering or modelling, etc, that puts a relative amount of stress on the CPU. Here are some productivity benchmarks to clarify things a bit:
Now, this is where things get a little sketchier as we see some margin between the performances of the X and Non-X variant, except for the 76,00, which performs the same as its X counterpart. The difference that we see here is usually due to the power constraint of the Non-X CPUs. Let me clarify one thing, this type of difference is only seen on software that requires some CPU power, for lighter software like Procyon and Adobe Photoshop, the difference that we see is less between the X and Non-Xs.
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Temperatures:
Now, temperatures/thermals are something where the Non-X variant demolishes its X counterparts due to its low power draw.
My thoughts:
Well if you are just a regular gamer who wants a Ryzen 7000 series CPU I’d suggest you go with a Non-X variant as it draws way lesser power, has stable temperatures and is cheaper but if you use heavy softwares like blender which require a lot of CPU work, I’d suggest you go with an X CPU or simply we can wait and find out how these Non-X CPUs would do with safe overclocking and give them a test too.
