The AMD Ryzen 7 9700F is an 8-core “Zen 5” processor that does not require an iGPU.

AMD hopes to launch the Ryzen 7 9700F, an 8-core/16-thread processor, at a price point considerably below $300, perhaps as low as $250. According to naming convention, the processor will not have integrated graphics. The 9700F will probably have the same or slightly lower clock speeds as the 9700X, a 65 W TDP, and probably even lack this “105 W mode.” This is because AMD hasn’t released 65 W variants of its Ryzen 9000 series “Granite Ridge” processors, instead giving the 9700X a 65 W TDP out of the box, but with a motherboard BIOS-based “105 W mode” that improves boost frequency residency. AMD wants to provide a respectable substitute for the Core Ultra 5 245K.

Based on the “Granite Ridge” MCM, the Ryzen 7 9700F will include a single 4 nm CCD with eight “Zen 5” CPU cores, each of which has 1 MB of dedicated L2 cache and shares a 32 MB on-die L3 cache. The 9700F either provides performance similar to the 9700X out of the box with a 65 W power limit or a 100 MHz lower boost frequency out of the box with unlocked multipliers. The 9700X has a base frequency of 3.80 GHz that rises to 5.50 GHz.