These new AMD 7000 Series processors are a content creator’s best friend
Photo editors and video editors can expect big performance gains
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The recently revealedAMD 7000 Serieshave been designed to power top-endworkstations, promising serious performance boosts over its predecessor, the company has said.
During last month’s‘live reveal’,AMDPresident Dr. Lisa Su explained, “Ryzen 7000 single-threaded performance is up to 29% higher compared to Ryzen 5000. These are just huge performance increases."
And that much-vaunted increase inCPUperformance is proving a major boon for content creators and the creative workflow, according to newly-released key benchmark tests.
Content creation with AMD 7000 Series
In a series of trials conducted byPuget Systems, the custom PC builder revealed thatAdobeusers can expect up to 30% performance gains inPhotoshop,LightroomClassic andAfter Effects
But, while thephoto editorsandVFX softwareperformed well against previous AMD incarnations, it’s bad news for professional video editors. Adobe’s industry-grade video editor proved less adept on the 7000 Series.
When runningPremiere Pro, AMD’s latest processors struggled againstIntel’s 12th generation CPUs.
However, the team behind the tests noted that “if you work with intraframe codecs like ProRes, the new AMD Ryzen 7000 series is about on par with theIntelCore 12th Gen processors, while RAW footage like RED can be as much as 42% faster with Ryzen.”
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For content creators in the video field, then, it means assessing the new CPUs strengths and weaknesses against their own specific use-cases.
Outside the ubiquitous Adobe ecosphere,DaVinci Resolve- our favoritefree video editing software- was put through its paces. TheAdobe Premiere Pro alternativeshowed a consistent 10-15% performance boost versus older hardware.
CineBench, V-Ray, Unreal Engine, and3D modeling softwareBlender were also tested, and each time, the AMD 7000 Series triumphed over its Intel counterparts.
The AMD 7000 Series, which features Zen 4 architecture plus DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 support, launches with the Ryzen 5 7600X,Ryzen 7 7700X, Ryzen 9 7900X, andRyzen 9 7950X. Released on 27 September, prices start at $299 / £259, up to $699 / £599.
While that’s more affordable than the previous generation, in our Ryzen 9 7950X review, we noted that while it’s “unquestionably the best processor on the market,” the lower costs are off-set by the need to invest in a newvideo editing computer.
Steve is TechRadar Pro’s B2B Editor for Creative & Hardware. He began in tech journalism reviewing photo editors and video editing software at the magazine Web User, where he also covered technology news, features, and how-to guides. Today, he and his team of reviewers test out a range of creative software, hardware, and office furniture. Once upon a time, he wrote TV commercials and movie trailers. Relentless champion of the Oxford comma.
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