Some performance rumors are beginning to leak out about AMD's upcoming Zen 3 CPUs that flesh out its generation with some lower-tier models. The Ryzen 7 5700X is one of the most intriguing of the lineup, offering the same eight cores and 16 threads as the 5800X, but at a substantially reduced cost. It will reportedly be just as fast, too, making it an attractive buy for anyone building a mid-range gaming PC in 2022.
There's no denying that Intel's Alder Lake generation of processors has captured both the performance crown and the zeitgeist, with the 12600K through 12900K wrecking just about anything AMD has to offer in most metrics and benchmarks. However, that doesn't mean AMD's chips aren't great, they're just back to offering solid value and decent performance, rather than class leading power at a premium price.
This is familiar territory for AMD and it's leaning into it with a number of new Zen 3 CPUs, including the 5700X. This chip will reportedly deliver the same kind of single threaded and multithreaded performance as the 5800X, which makes sense, as its specs are essentially identical.
What isn't, is the pricing. When it debuts in the next few weeks, the chip will allegedly have a price tag of just $300. That's very competitive with the 12600K, and should make the 5700X a great buy for anyone over the next few months.
That said, anyone who can wait, should, as Raptor Lake and Zen 4 are just months away and should be far better than everything available today and in the near future.
