AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X: Two minute review The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X is finally here, and it's hard to argue that this isn't the best consumer processor ever made. This is a big claim, and with Intel Raptor Lake quickly approaching, we'll know soon enough if Team Blue is going to be able to counter a very resurgent AMD, but we are not going to sugar coat it: AMD has set the bar very high with the Ryzen 9 7950X, and Intel is going to be hard pressed to even keep pace with what this processor brings to the game. To start, AMD used TSMC's 5nm node to produce the new Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 series chips, and the Ryzen 9 7950X is a 16-core, 32-thread beast with 80MB cache memory and a boost clock within sight of 6.0GHz. What's more, unlike Intel's turn to big.LITTLE architecture, all 16 of the Ryzen 9 7950X's cores are full performance cores, so while Intel might be using the Arm-pioneered performance core-efficiency core pairing, the Ryzen 9 7950X simply runs roughshod...