Ryzen 7 7700: indications of non-X CPU with 65 watt TDP [Gerücht]

On By Garmin Philip
Ryzen 7 7700: indications of non-X CPU with 65 watt TDP [Gerücht]


from Maximilian Hohm –
The first leaks speak of a Ryzen 7 7700. The omission of the X suffix is ​​intended to reduce the TDP from 105 to 65 watts, leave the number of cores untouched and typically lower the clock rates minimally. Such a CPU could be a sensible entry point for many players on the AM5 platform and increase sales. Read more about this below.

New high-end processors are currently being delivered with TDPs of 170 watts (AMD) or PBP/MTP of 125/253 watts (Intel). The corresponding chips offer a very high performance, but both manufacturers work away from the sweet spot that the chips can reach. In the recent past, AMD in particular had really useful chips with the Zen 2 recommendation Ryzen 7 3700X and the Ryzen 7 5700X based on Zen 3, which was only released late in the life cycle, and which were able to offer a good compromise between price, power consumption and performance or can.

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In the current Ryzen 7000 lineup, on the other hand, there is not a single processor that is delivered with a TDP of 65 watts. The six-core Ryzen 5 7600X could – as demonstrated in our test – get by with it without any problems, but it still comes with a 105 watt TDP ex works. According to the latest leak from @momomo_us, this should change in the near future and a Ryzen 7 7700 could close this gap. Like its counterpart with a 105 watt TDP, it is said to offer eight cores and, of course, relies on AMD’s latest Zen 4 architecture.


There are no further details in the leak, but such a chip would make sense, especially in the current situation. AMD could definitely use a cheap option for the AM5 platform, since it has been extremely expensive so far and budget-oriented users therefore still often turn to AM4. AMD has already offered models such as the Ryzen 7 5800 in the past, but they could also be overclocked without the X suffix and offered a lower TDP ex works with almost identical performance in practice.

Source: @momomo_us



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