"Building (or upgrading) a gaming PC means making smart choices about where to invest your budget and the processor sits at the heart of everything. AMD's Ryzen 7 9700X occupies that sweet spot in their lineup where you get serious performance without crossing into extreme enthusiast territory. This 8-core chip from the latest Zen 5 architecture delivers the processing muscle needed for modern gaming and content creation while staying within reach for most builders."
"The Ryzen 7 9700X packs 8 cores and 16 threads into your system, a setup that is no stranger to multitasking and still capable of providing the single-threaded performance that games require. That 5.5 GHz maximum boost frequency means the CPU can increase speed when needed, accelerating frames in fast-paced games where milliseconds matter. AMD says this part can produce over 100 FPS in mainstream games which is supported by the Zen 5 design's gains in instructions per clock cycle over the previous gen."
The Ryzen 7 9700X is an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 desktop processor that balances high performance with mainstream pricing. It reaches up to 5.5 GHz boost frequency and benefits from Zen 5 IPC gains to improve single-thread and gaming performance. The CPU includes an unlockable multiplier for overclocking, enabling higher clocks with sufficient cooling. A combined 40 MB of on-die cache reduces memory stalls and helps gaming workloads access texture and asset data faster. Native DDR5-5600 support future-proofs memory bandwidth. A Prime sale price of $250, down from $359, represents an all-time low but expires during Prime Big Deal Day.
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