AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

[W1zzard]

The flagship of AMD's new Ryzen 3000 lineup is the Ryzen 9 3900X, which is a 12-core, 24-thread monster. Never before have we seen such power on a desktop platform. Priced at $500, this processor is very strong competition for Intel's Core i9-9900, which only has eight cores.

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[gmn17]

Amd rules

 

[Wavetrex]

Here we goooo....
Start your reading engines and defog those glasses !

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Edit: After reading the parts which interest me, one thing is clear:
This is my next CPU (will skip the 16-core, it's too much and from the cost difference I can get a nice 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD)

Video encoding results are astonishing for the price !

 

[Steevo]

The most energy efficient per workload, and manages to kick Intel in Dez Nuts at essentially everything within a few percent.

Good work AMD.

 

[r9]

It's definitely and improvement but I was expecting more to be honest.

 

[Hockster]

Hopefully this isn't typical for overclocking levels. Was hoping for better results.

 

[W1zzard]

Hopefully this isn't typical for overclocking levels. Was hoping for better results.

Heat is the problem, I'm sure the CPU can go much higher if you have the cooling for it

 

[oxidized]

Nothing incredible to see here, i honestly was hoping for a better overclocking ability, and power consumption wasn't supposed to be far lower than intel and temps too?

 

[Eskimonster]

And the king is still 9700k/9900k, you can pick the one you prefer even.

 

[Shatun_Bear]

The 9900K is now obsolete unless it gets a heavy price cut.

This offers basically the same gaming performance as the 9900K in 1440p and up, consumes less power despite 4 extra cores, and demolishes it in productivity

 

[Eskimonster]

The 9900K is now obsolete unless it gets a heavy price cut.

This offers basically the same gaming performance as the 9900K in 1440p and up, consumes less power despite two extra cores, and demolishes it in productivity

No matter your reasons for buying amd or intel, you cant say the new AMD beats intels in gaming.
only reason to go AMD is if you want pcie4.

 

[oxidized]

The 9900K is now obsolete unless it gets a heavy price cut.

This offers basically the same gaming performance as the 9900K in 1440p and up, consumes less power despite two extra cores, and demolishes it in productivity

9900K was already obsolete, but still up there in charts, most of the times it's ahead in gaming, other times it's on par, and it's 4 extra cores, and no it doesn't consume less power https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-3900x/18.html

Hell even the 3700X consumes more (most of the times), and it's got the same amount of cores/threads.

 

[Mephis]

The 9900K is now obsolete unless it gets a heavy price cut.

This offers basically the same gaming performance as the 9900K in 1440p and up, consumes less power despite two extra cores, and demolishes it in productivity

Maybe I'm an idiot, but the power graphs seemed to show the exact opposite. It uses more power than any other chip tested.

 

[Deleted member 157276]

Don't worry, AMD won't allow themselves to be beaten by 8700K and even 9700K in gaming. They'll have a 5 GHz part coming out to prove that, as we know they have one according to the reputable TheLostSwede. He has evidence (I know, the evidence has zero relation whatsoever to anything about Zen 5 GHz parts, but who cares? It'S eVidENcE!!).

 

[B-Real]

And the king is still 9700k/9900k, you can pick the one you prefer even.

Hahahaha, poor guy. Since Zen+, AMD has been outselling Intel 2 to 1. It will outsell it at least by 3 to 1 with Zen2.

No matter your reasons for buying amd or intel, you cant say the new AMD beats intels in gaming.
only reason to go AMD is if you want pcie4.

Who said AMD would bet Intel in gaming? Even graphs in the AMD event showed that it's near to the best Intels (in some games it was faster, in some it was a bit slower). And it's really near them: with the strongest GPU on the market, Intel has 5% lead on FHD. With a $1200 GPU.

The 9900K is now obsolete unless it gets a heavy price cut.

This offers basically the same gaming performance as the 9900K in 1440p and up, consumes less power despite two extra cores, and demolishes it in productivity

It offers the same performance in FHD too. Just realize that the difference is 5% with a 2080Ti on FHD. That's absolutely marginal in terms of high fps. Plus if you "only" use a 1080Ti or 2080, this difference lowers to 0.

 

[Shatun_Bear]

No matter your reasons for buying amd or intel, you cant say the new AMD beats intels in gaming.
only reason to go AMD is if you want pcie4.

You AMD haters are trying so hard and getting very anxious

The difference in real-world 'gaming' res of 1440p is 2 PERCENT. Margin of error. So much for king of gaming!

 

[Mephis]

Hahahaha, poor guy. Since Zen+, AMD has been outselling Intel 2 to 1. It will outsell it at least by 3 to 1 with Zen2.

Are we really going to continue to use the sales from a single web shop in Germany as a representation of the entire CPU market? I know it may be hard to believe, but the majority of CPU sales are not made to enthusiasts.

Yes, AMD has made great improvements and I personally would buy Zen 2 over any Intel right now, but please just stop with the nonsense.

 

[EatingDirt]

And the king is still 9700k/9900k, you can pick the one you prefer even.

Alternatively, you could say the king is 3700x/3900x. 10% & 12% faster in CPU tests, only 9% & 7% slower in 720p gaming tests. Both while being better value. For the 3700x a massive 27% better value than the 9700k, and the 3900x being a respectable 8% better value than the 9900k.

 

[Vario]

Anandtech shows the Ryzen 3000 under full load using less power than the Intel parts, Techpowerup shows it using more. Maybe Anandtech isn't loading it hard enough.

 

[W1zzard]

Anandtech shows the Ryzen 3000 under full load using less power than the Intel parts, Techpowerup shows it using more. Maybe Anandtech isn't loading it hard enough.

Probably depends on the software used. I saw huge differences between Prime95's various stress test types

 

[Eskimonster]

Alternatively, you could say the king is 3700x/3900x. 10% & 12% faster in CPU tests, only 9% & 7% in 720p gaming tests. Both while being better value. For the 3700x a massive 27% better value than the 9700k, and the 3900x being a respectable 8% better value than the 9900k.

That value goes into nothing if you buy a expensive 570x

 

[Shatun_Bear]

Are we really going to continue to use the sales from a single web shop in Germany as a representation of the entire CPU market? I know it may be hard to believe, but the majority of CPU sales are not made to enthusiasts.

Yes, AMD has made great improvements and I personally would buy Zen 2 over any Intel right now, but please just stop with the nonsense.

It's not just from Mindfactory, it's everywhere you look. I just captured this from Amazon.com CPU best sellers. This list is absolutely representative of sales ratios because of the amount of PC hardware Amazon sells. If Ryzen 2000 looks better than 50/50 share, it's only going to get much worse. To be clear I'm talking about the DIY desktop marketshare only, but the same fate will befall other market segments eventually as there is no answer to these CPUs from Intel, only another 14nm refresh of a refresh of a refresh coming 2020.

 

[Deleted member 157276]

You AMD haters are trying so hard and getting very anxious

Lol I knew this guy was lying from the start, comes across more like an Intel employee, trying to create unrealistic expectations.

The most hilarious part of that is that by noting this very fact, and how people like him fabricate a situation of false hype, and therefore create a sense of disappointment for a fantastic product (because Zen 2 is great; I'm looking forward to finally put a high-end 8 core CPU in my ITX build, without having a jet engine-sounding fan, like Intel's offerings did), you become branded as an Intel fanboy.

 

[LocutusH]

Just a question.

Do you always retest every number, in the latest win10 update, and driver enviroment, or are the other processor and vga results just taken over from older reviews?

 

[W1zzard]

Do you always retest every number, in the latest win10 update, and driver enviroment

yes, I retested everything, took me two weeks