The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X is a desktop processor with 8 cores, launched in August 2024. It is part of the Ryzen 7 lineup, using the Zen 5 (Granite Ridge) architecture with Socket AM5. Thanks to AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) the core-count is effectively doubled, to 16 threads. Ryzen 7 9700X has 32 MB of L3 cache and operates at 3.8 GHz by default, but can boost up to 5.5 GHz, depending on the workload.
