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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X / Ryzen 9 7950X Benchmarks Show Impressive Zen 4 Linux Performance
The AMD Ryzen 9 7900 series works out very well for multi-threaded video encoders like with Intel's own SVT-AV1.
Testing a variety of other video encoders for AV1, VP9, and H.265/HEVC all had the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X now leading the race of these desktop x86_64 CPUs.