AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and Ryzen 9 7900X Review
Test Setup
As always here at OC3D when there is a move to a new platform we have taken the opportunity to refresh both our test system and the things that we are using to benchmark. Naturally this means that some of our new tests will have fewer results than some of the others, but given how rapidly the market has moved forwards it’s fair to say that anything older than the last generation is going to be left in the dust. Clock speed only gets you so far after all. We’ve also rejigged our graphs a little after last time to hopefully make them more legible with less neck-ache. Don’t forget you can embiggen them.
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X
ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Hero – BIOS 0604
G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 4800 32GB
Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti
Patriot Viper VP4100 NVMe
BeQuiet Silent Base 802 Case
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 12 1200W PSU
BeQuiet Silent Loop 2 360
BeQuiet Silent Wings Pro Fans
Windows 11
Clock Speeds
The Ryzen 5 7600X is already pretty much at its limits out of the box, and so our overclocking efforts were largely confined to getting the rated clock speed across all the cores, instead of pushing for higher speeds on a core or two that only look good in a screenshot.
So all core boost hovered around 5.15GHz but we did manage to get 5.35GHz for an all core overclock at 1.275vcore
The Ryzen 9 7900X manages to boost itself up to 5.7 GHz in low thread tasks if you choose to leave it alone, whilst those of you who want to ensure that every core is running at the same speed naturally need to give up a little at the high end for thermal reasons. Hence our 5.45 GHz all core clock at 1.3v
