When AMD announced the Ryzen 9000-series CPUs at Computex, one particular little nugget caught my attention. The 8-core Ryzen 7 9700X was given a very respectable 65W TDP. That's well below the 105W and 120W TDPs of the Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 7 7800X3D respectively.
A new rumor suggests AMD might have jumped the gun on that, at least when it comes to gaming performance. AMD's Senior Technical Marketing Manager of Consumer Processors Donny Woligroski confirmed the 9700X won't have the grunt to beat out the 7800X3D in gaming...