AMD Ryzen 3900X and 3700X review | igor'sLAB

1 - AMD Ryzen 3900X und 3700X 2 - Straßenpreise 3 - Schneller DRAM 4 - Speicherbandbreite und L3-Cache 5 - Speicherlatenzen, L3-Cache und Intercore 6 - 4 Leistung: H.265-Kodierung 7 - Leistungsmerkmale: 3DMark TimeSpy 8 - Leistung in Spielen 9 - Leistung: Frametimes 10 - Leistung: SPECviewperfs 13 11 - Leistung: SPEC Workstation 12 - Leistungsaufnahme 13 - Fazit

Summary

You can see that AMD has invested enormous resources in the development of the new Ryzen 9 3900X and Ryzen 7 3700X processors. Thanks to the Zen 2 architecture and the 7 nm manufacturing process, the company finally has the opportunity to end the dominance of its eternal competitor Intel. Especially because its fastest end-user products continue to suffer a little from the limitations of older 14 nm production.

But even if the architecture of the Ryzen 3000 product family is indeed one of the most interesting and promising developments of recent years and can really shine with its excellent theoretical performance in multithreaded applications – this is how the game-playing look a little different for many titles. The processors offer more cores, but also a lower clock speed than their blue competitors. This puts the Ryzen 9 3900X and Ryzen 7 3700X CPUs slightly behind the 9th most powerful i-core processor. Generation of Intel.

It will of course be the subject of further follow-ups to overclock and test these CPUs even further, which is still feasible for the end user and above all useful. But this has really exceeded the scope of the time available to us, because even the updates for the motherboards came as always quite late and even several times. Added to this are the problems with the mail update of Windows and various game patches, which all too often made comparable values with older versions obsolete. This also applies to games such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which came with another patch later this week. Then it would be better to have no results than wrong ones. And it has not been postponed.

In direct comparison, however, the performance in many production areas is very good to good, which of course also makes some Threadripper configuration obsolete if it is to be (currently) up to 12 cores. Intel still has no real antidote, if you hide the X299 enthusiast platform, which plays in a completely different league in terms of price and has become partly superfluous in the case of the smaller CPUs.

New performance level per watt and price?

In addition to the pure performance that no longer lags behind Intel's performance, amD's proposed pricing structure and low power consumption of the new Ryzen products compared to Intel processors are the real positive surprises, if you set power consumption against performance. The power consumption values were determined in the worst case with perfectly scaling applications, where the new Ryzen CPUs can usually clearly win the performance comparisons.

TSMC therefore seems to have a good grip on 7 nm production, which should ultimately lead to interesting and forward-looking products in the coming years. And maybe that's the icing on the cake: these end-user CPUs need good applications with multithreading support to get the most out of themselves. Multithreading in games is still grossly under-represented, but the number of corresponding titles is steadily increasing year after year. And when it comes to the IPC, AMD isn't that far away. And away from gaming? The Ryzen 3000 product family is already a powerful and, above all, affordable alternative for professional work PCs and workstations!

The only downside is the somewhat expensive motherboards, but we are sure that there will be some more in the market. In the end, the customer will (can) take care of this with his purchasing behaviour. Well done, AMD! It could have looked different and turned out. The hype train has not derailed this time, but it has arrived at the destination, something late and also with a slightly more expensive ticket than perhaps hoped, but at least well preserved. And that's actually what really counts in the end.

At this point, i would like to thank the French colleagues who supported me here with the Basics and there will also be real laboratory tests on Ryzen in the foreseeable future, including user experience from everyday life. So I will divide the input for the readers nicely dosed ,but then everyone will have something of it.