Tom's Hardware Verdict

The Ryzen 7 7700X3D offers 7600X3D-like gaming performance, just at a higher price. A price cut to between $250 and $280 would make it far more competitive with Intel’s offerings, as well as AMD’s other Zen 4 X3D chips.

Pros

+ Slots into existing AM5 boards, no BIOS update required

+ Remarkable efficiency in games, often better than 7800X3D

+ Within 5% of the gaming performance of the 7800X3D

Cons

- Only 2% faster than 7600X3D, despite $90 price increase

- Weak single- and multithreaded application performance

- Expensive at $330

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The 7700X3D always made sense. Ever since the 5800X3D released and showed itself as the best CPU for gaming (at the time), AMD has continued to double down on 3D V-Cache, dominating the competition from Intel in games by double-digit margins.…