The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 has simply dropped to its lowest ever worth on Amazon, making this eight-core gaming CPU a wonderful possibility for these in search of an AMD CPU deal. It’s not absolutely the quickest CPU AMD makes for gaming, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a fantastic all-rounder, and it’s practically $100 cheaper than the present king of the hill the 7800X3D.
With eight of AMD‘s newest Zen 4 cores housed inside it, the Ryzen 7 7700 is a strong CPU, and if had this worth at launch it might have discovered itself a spot on our greatest gaming CPU information. Nevertheless, this can be a limited-time deal, so that you’ll should act quick to get this nice CPU for this worth.
In comparison with its authentic MSRP of $329, this deal worth of $246.98 works out as a 25% saving. The CPU has had just a few different moments of being discounted since its launch final 12 months, and has extra lately been accessible for round $280, however that is the bottom the value has ever been by some margin.
Within the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 assessment on our sister website, Customized PC, we discovered that the chip supplied glorious all-round efficiency, with it being significantly notable for its low energy consumption, drawing simply 208W below full load. That compares to 546W for the Intel Core i9 13900K or 389W for the Intel Core i7 13700K.
The chip isn’t absolutely the quickest possibility for gaming PCs, however that is solely actually mirrored in video games working at very excessive body charges. If you happen to are inclined to play cinematic video games, and solely goal 60-120fps, there’s subsequent to no significant distinction in comparison with sooner chips, as it can virtually definitely be your graphics card that’s limiting efficiency. There are some CPU-intensive video games, equivalent to some real-time technique titles, however these must also cope properly on an eight-core chip like this.
What’s extra, if you’re tempted to ever improve for extra gaming efficiency, this chip and its AM5 platform make for a super improve path. It affords strong efficiency now, after which your AM5 motherboard can help AMD’s upcoming Zen 5 CPUs and certain the subsequent era after that.
You may study extra concerning the Zen 4 structure that makes this CPU tick in our Zen 4 deep dive on Customized PC, and study simply what else is concerned in placing collectively a brand new gaming PC in our information on how you can construct a gaming PC, the place we take you thru the entire course of, together with putting in your CPU.
