AMD announces Ryzen 7000 series processors, available September 25

AMD today announced its Ryzen 7000 series of consumer desktop processors. Based on the new AM5 platform and the new Zen 4 architecture, these new CPUs introduce significant improvement in performance over previous generation Ryzen 5000 series as well as introducing cutting edge features like DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5. The four CPUs being announced today are the 7950X, the 7900X, the 7700X, and the 7600X. These have similar core and thread counts as the initial wave of Ryzen 5000 releases but with some changes in the prices. At the top of the stack is the Ryzen 9 7950X, a 16-core, 32...