AMD Ryzen 9 7950X release date, price, pre order & where to buy
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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
Cores
16
Threads
32
Base Speed
4.5GHz
Boost Speed
5.7GHz
Cache
64MB
Socket
AM5
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Ryzen 7000 series is available right now. Buy the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X now! Don’t miss out!
AMD is said to be releasing its Ryzen 7000 series CPUs along with its AM5 motherboards in late September. The Zen 4 architecture contains four CPUs, and our processor of choice today is the Ryzen 9 7950X. Here’s our “where to buy” including AMD Ryzen 9 7950X release date predictions and prices.
Our Ryzen 7000 series CPU reviews are live, take a look if you’re in the market for a new Ryzen 7000 series CPU.
These are AMD’s latest and greatest CPUs and it’s easy to see why when you read into them a little bit. They bring a plethora of features never before seen on the AMD platform, and processing power like you’ve never seen.
The Ryzen 9 7950X is AMD’s Zen 4 flagship CPU, the 7950X promises performance we’ve never seen before. With its massively increased Multi-core performance and its IPC increases, we’re sure it won’t disappoint. This CPU is top spec.
The 7950X is just raw power on a piece of silicon. The IPC improvements and high clock speeds make this processor an absolute monster in terms of performance.
Zen 4 updates
1/09/22 – AMD Ryzen 5 7600X is 11% faster than the i9-12900K. AMD, during its “together we advance PCs” event stated that the Ryzen 5 7600X is 11% faster in F1 2022 than Intel’s Core i9-12900K. AMD also spilled the beans on single-threaded performance in Geekbench for all four Zen 4 CPUs.
02/09/22 – Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 series CPU samples should be getting sent out to reviewers any time now, we expect to receive ours shortly.
05/09/22 – The Ryzen 9 7950X reportedly reaches a massive score of 37425 in Cinebench R23 multi-threaded benchmarks. However, the Ryzen 9 7950X reaches 96°C with a 360mm all-in-one cooler in the process.
6/09/22 – The AMD Zen 4 review embargo has been confirmed as the 26th of September 2022, which hopefully means we should be getting review samples within the next week or so.
Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 series where to buy pages
If you’re looking for another Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 series CPU, here are our other Zen 4 where-to-buy pages. Check them out if you want to grab yourself a new CPU
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X release date
The release date for the Ryzen 9 7950X is the 29th of September 2022. As recently confirmed by AMD at their “Together we advance PCs” event on August 29th, 2022.
AMD plans to release the 7950X along with the other three Ryzen 7000 series CPUs on September 27th, 2022. The very same day Intel unveils its 13th gen “Raptor Lake” CPUs.
We don’t think this is a coincidence, as Intel beat AMD to the post the last time CPUs were released.
Check out our “AMD pushes back Ryzen 7000 series release to September 27th” article if you want to know more on the matter.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X price
AMD recently confirmed the prices of all the Zen 4 CPUs in its “together we advance PCs” event on August 29th, 2022.
The launch price of the Ryen 9 7950X will be $699 USD. A true beast capable of taking the throne as the best gaming CPU of the generation. Check out full coverage of the event in our “Ryzen 7000 series price, performance, and specs revealed” article
Ryzen 9 7950X specs
The Ryzen 9 7950X is designed to be the best of the best hands down. The 7950X has a core count of 16 cores and 32 threads, it will also have a high base core frequency of 4.5GHz, and a boost clock speed of 5.7GHz.
The 7950X also has a huge 170W TDP (65W higher than any Ryzen 5000 series Zen 3 CPU). As for Cache, the Ryzen 9 7950X comes with 80MB total, 64MB from L3, and 16MB from L2 (1MB per core).
Ryzen 9 7950X where to buy?
So, where do you buy a Ryzen 9 7950X? We’ve outlined a list of retailers that will stock the 7950X upon release.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
Cores
16
Threads
32
Base Speed
4.5GHz
Boost Speed
5.7GHz
Cache
64MB
Socket
AM5
Ryzen 9 7950X Pre order
Here are the places you can buy a 7950X.
US links
UK links
Canada links
Other useful where to buy & Pre order pages
Here are some of our other “Where to buy” pages if you don’t happen to find what you’re looking for here.
- Where to buy Ryzen 9 7700X
- Where to buy Ryzen 5 7600X
- Where to buy Ryzen 9 7900X
- Where to buy an ASUS Noctua RTX 3080
- Where to buy RX 6650 XT
- Where to buy RX 6950 XT
- Where to buy an Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti
Final word
So that about does it for our Ryzen 9 7950X where to buy page. We’re very much looking forward to the release of AMD Zen 4 7000 series CPUs, as they’re rumored to bring performance increases as we’ve never seen them before.
You can rest assured that we will be putting the new Zen 4 CPUs through their paces when we get our hands on them.
When will the Ryzen 9 7950X release?
The release date of the Ryzen 9 7950X, according to recent leaks, will be the 27th of September 2022. The same day Intel plans to announce its “Raptor Lake” CPUs.
Ryzen 9 7950X price?
The launch price of the Ryzen 9 7950X will be $699 USD as confirmed by AMD in its “together we advance PCs” event