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AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X has dropped to £312 at Amazon UKA great price for the best value Zen 4 CPU for gaming.
A great price for the best value Zen 4 CPU for gaming.
AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors offer incredible gaming and content creation performance, though high prices have stifled their adoption. Now, these CPUs - and their accompanying motherboards and RAM - are starting to become more affordable, with the high-end Ryzen 7 7700X dropping from a launch price of £440 to just £312 at Amazon UK as of today.
Get the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X for £312 (was £440)
The 7700X is the most desirable Zen 4 processor for gaming, as it packs the maximum number of cores into a single core complex, delivering excellent frame-rates without the slight penalty of data needing to travel from one complex to another as we see on the Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X. That means, despite the 7700X costing significantly less, we actually see it outperforming the Ryzen 9 CPUs in some games - you can see examples of this inmy 7700X review for Digital Foundry.
The 7700X seems a good candidate for future-proofing too, as it supports all of the same tech as the higher-end Ryzen chips (PCIe 5.0, DDR5) while also sporting the same basic configuration of the current-gen consoles (eight cores and 16 threads). I often saw a gap between the 7600/7600X and the higher-end Ryzen 7000 CPUs, so there’s some evidence to suggest that an eight-core or higher CPU is desirable for playing the latest games.
Note that normally I would recommend the Ryzen 7 7700, the non-X 65W part that debuted early this year, but this CPU actually costsmorethan the 7700X right now - £312 for the X versus £338 for the non-X. That doesn’t make any sense, but it means that you can at least pick up the 7700X knowing that you’re not leaving even a smidgen of performance on the table!
In any case, I hope this helped! That’ll be the last deals article from me this week, so thanks for joining me and I’ll see you again on Monday most likely! Cheers.
