TechPowerUp: "As mentioned before, AMD has set a 65 W TDP for the Ryzen 7 9700X, which matches the Ryzen 7 7700 non-X and is considerably lower than the 105 W setting on the 7700X. Combined with the enhancements in microarchitecture and the 4 nm production process, this design makes the Ryzen 7 9700X a remarkably energy-efficient design."
Tom's Hardware: "The Zen 5-powered AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X deliver large generational gaming improvements that exceed price-comparable Intel models. The processors also deliver class-leading single-threaded performance but still trail Intel in heavily threaded applications. Overall, Ryzen 9000 delivers impressive generational performance gains, but have a 40% lower TDP than their predecessors, ultimately yielding a cooler, quieter and faster system."
PC Gamer: "The biggest eye-opener was the photo editing benchmark. If this is the kind of task you're going to be throwing regularly at your CPU, it's self-evident which one you'd choose and it's the Ryzen 7 9700X. And just like the 9600X, it does all this with a maximum power budget of 88 W."
AnandTech: "Overall, Zen 5's performance in single-threaded workloads, especially in rendering, certainly takes things up a notch. And from an architectural perspective, Zen 5 is clearly an improvement over Zen 4 in virtually every way possible."
PCMag: "The lower power consumption translated nicely to reduced operating temperatures, too. All of these processors were tested with the same cooler, making the Ryzen 7 9700X one of the coolest-operating processors we’ve tested to date."
guru3d: "This is among the best 8-core processors that we have had our hands on in a while."
IGN: "The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X is an incredibly powerful mid-range processor. Thanks to improvements included in the Zen 5 architecture, AMD was able to deliver performance on-par with its last-generation processors without the frightening temperatures and power consumption that plagued Ryzen 7000 chips."
