AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU Review Ft. MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk – The Most Efficient High-End CPU

A new era is upon us, an era that involves a reenvisioned focus on performance and efficiency leadership in the CPU landscape. There are two companies that are battling hard to hold the throne of this segment but given the incremental (and sometimes revolutionary) changes that each chipmaker is bringing to the field in a span of a few quarters, there's no decisive victor. In return, the consumers keep on reaping the benefits of this heated battle between red and blue which is the most intense it's ever been.

While Intel may have managed to take the performance and value throne from AMD with its 13th-Gen Raptor Lake & 12th-Gen Alder Lake lineup, AMD wasn't going to sit silent. The red team has been offering some great discounts across its entire Ryzen 7000 CPUs and even offered more value in the form of the Non-X Ryzen 7000 series. But today, we get a taste of their X3D parts, featuring for the first time, the Ryzen 9 SKUs for enthusiast gamers out there.

In the five years of Zen, the company went from performance leadership to core leadership, efficiency leadership, and gaming leadership. And today, the red team even manages to secure the clock speed leadership, something that we thought was impossible against a rival such as Intel.

While the initial Ryzen 7000 focused on a brand new platform with great gen-over-gen uplifts, the Ryzen 7000 X3D CPUs aim to drive the gaming performance to the next level. This week, AMD is introducing two flagships, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, and Ryzen 9 7900X3D which aim at the high-end enthusiast market.

The main features of AMD's Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs include:

So for today's review, we will be taking a look at the flagship AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU on MSI's brand new MAG X670E Tomahawk motherboard and see how it performs.

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