—after months of rumors about AMD’s Zen 4 and Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs, both arrive within weeks of each other. We’ll have to wait until next month for the arrival of Intel’s Core i9-13900K to put it through its paces, but the first topof-the-line offering from AMD, the Ryzen 9 7950X, is here. Coming in at $699, it’s a premium CPU for sure, but at $100 less than the 5950X it effectively replaces, it’s also pretty good value for
