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Zen 4: all that we’d hoped for

it begins. AMD’s Zen 4 has landed and Intel’s 13th generation Raptor Lake chips aren’t far behind. The fight for CPU supremacy is on. First, those new AMD chips. The Zen 4 range starts with four new models. At the top is the Ryzen 9 7950X, with 16 cores and 80MB of L2 and L3 cache. The base clock is 4.5GHz, with a boost to 5.7GHz, and costs $699. Next is the Ryzen

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