AMD has just released the first official gaming benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X. AMD has put its new CPU against the Intel i9 9900K and from what we can see, AMD’s new CPU is as fast as Intel’s offering at 1080p.
As we can see, in Devil May Cry 5 the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X is slower than the Intel i9 9900K, whereas in Counter Strike: Global Offensive the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X is faster than Intel’s high-end gaming CPU. In the other games, the Ryzen 9 3900X performs similarly to the Intel i9 9900K, something that will definitely please a lot of PC gamers.
AMD has also shared some official gaming benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 7 3800X and the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X. The red team compared the first CPU with Intel’s i7 9700K and the second CPU with the Intel i5 9600K. Again, AMD’s CPUs appear to be doing great on gaming and the gap between Intel’s and AMD’s CPUs is pretty minimal at this point.
AMD will release its 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs on July 7th. The AMD Ryzen 3800X (which will target most gamers) will be priced at $399, will feature 8 CPU cores, will support 16 threads, will be clocked at 3.9Ghz with a turbo-boost of 4.5Ghz, and will require 105W of power.
On the other hand, the AMD Ryzen 3900X will be priced at $499, will feature 12 CPU cores, will support 24 threads, will be clocked at 3.8Ghz with a turbo-boost of 4.6Ghz, and will require 105W of power.
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Already got a buyer for my 2700X, 3900X here I come….
Hellz yeah!
I will be building a rig after ~7 years using a 3900X! My current PC I built in 2012 and kept adding small upgrades over the years using i7-4770K, currently has 16GB DDR3 @ 2400MHz, GTX1080, and a bunch of SSDs + HDDs for storage.
Hmm i expected the 3800x to completely leave my 9700k in the dust…i guess more optimisations have to be made and games need to use more cores/threads so its still early to say, in the long run im sure even the 3700x will be better than the 9700k when games will be optimised for more cores
Just look at the R5 1600 vs i5-7600K in 2017 vs now in gaming. Anyone who buys an 8c/8t i7-9700K instead of a 8c/16t Ryzen 7 is simply shooting themselves in the foot years down the line for absolutely no reason.
I dont regret my 9700k actually its doing great and will probably do great for the next 3-5 years for my needs
Of course in the long run the 3700x will be faster i have no doubt about that, but i would not call owning a 9700k shooting myself in the foot.
But if i had to recommend a cpu to upgrade to right now the 3700x is the best value imo
Only reason to buy Intel was for gaming performance and if this is true i can no longer see any reason what so ever to recommend Intel. Not for performance per watt not for performance per fps and as always not for performance per dollar.
To add some detail to this, if Amd has matched or beaten Intel’s IPC this is something we haven’t seen since the K8 days(2003), now i’m almost certain frequency will still be higher on coffee-lake and on overclocks which should give Intel the edge in single threaded performance but this is serious business. I simply can’t wait to see 3rd party benchmarks if someone told me back in 2012 Amd would even be this close i would have started laughing.
Well amd have 1-2 years to gain as much cash as they could, after that who knows, things may look like core2duo era again with Intel entering GPU market and Jim keller’s next gen Intel architecture coming not long after that.
Things are looking bleaker for Nvidia though, because they’re going to fight against 2 entities while having only half the product range.
Actually no, there’s a 4th entity looming over from the mobile sector too (Qualcomm trying to get into laptop segment)
Intel can no longer beat AMD even with PC. AMD at 4.4 matches Intel at 5 GHZ. Intel can push to 5.2, MAYBE to 5.3. AMD can push to 4.8, confirmed.
Intel is finally behind AMD in IPC.
While i’m happy to see AMD FINALLY makes a meaningful comeback in the cpu market the 9700k will cost less than the 3800x for a much more mature platform. Idk how the pcie4.0 and all the bells and whistles are going to perform day 1 but there’s always early adopters problems for new chipsets/architecture.
Still i love this and looking forward to true third party benchmarks. Looking at you nexus 😉
Mature=old
Also AM4 is not a new platform. This is the 3rd iteration of processors.
This gen of ryzen is bringing a new chipset with new specs regarding pcie.
“9700k will cost less than the 3800x for a much more mature platform.” The $330 3700X is a thing that exists, did you forget that? And what the hell are you talking about??? AM4 is three years old at this point. That’s LITERALLY as mature as a platform gets. The delusions are strong with this one, rofl.
Well i used the two cpus they listed in their slides so what’s up with that. Also true am4 isn’t new i’ve used a poor choice of words, i meant specs regarding pcie and x570 as a whole. Everytime there’s a new chipsets there are tons of bios updates in the months following it’s release. Point being, early adopters might have problems. Also, calling people delusional might hurt their feelings.
A mature intel platform is an outdated one… these greedy f*ck are changing their socket every 2 gen…
Well yea i’ll give you that they’re changing them quickly but why? What makes a microchip manufacturer change their socket ?
Seriously, AMD had to dig out Counter Strike: Global Offensive from its grave just to find a win against Intel?
Perfect to benchmark a CPU ….
Maybe actually learn how CPU benchmarking works *facepalm*…
I lived long enough to see AMD beat Intel, now I’ll live long enough to see AMD become worse than Intel with price hikes.
Sooo happy to finally see AMD rise on top after more than a decade! 3900X here I come!
Encouraging news.
However, the i9 9900K has a very considerable amount of headroom for overclocking but can the same be said of Ryzen 9 3900X?
P.S. What is it with the heads of AMD and Nvidia having a fetish for wearing black leather on stage?!
The 9900K requires exotic cooling to push it past 5GHz, which is only 300MHz higher than its all core boost. With PBO I would expect sustained 4.7-4.8GHz clocks on a single core, which would be enough to outpace just about any air cooled 9900K.
man I wish they’d stop using 1080p benches, and actually start aiming for 1440p and 4k ones.
Stop hiding behind low res barriers.
Also, stop using old or unoptimised games for those wins as well.
I want my next AMD CPU to be one over Intel, but not if it’s bought on crappy benches alone, and then turns out to be hot garbage when faced with a real 1440p bench-test.
Please do refer to the term bottleneck for an answer to why they did use FHD, and IMO they should go with HD.
Because it’s not about @ what res people plays it’s about performance of chip.
Ideally they should strip all drawing calls and just run engine / game / only with game loop logic nothing more and do predefined route / benchmark without any visual output.
Such test would tell us:
– how engine performs
– how CPU performs
Missed Your sentence:
They're here to benchmark with reference to real world tangible results. Not for the sake of it.But still it would be interesting to see these numbers.
And I noticed that I did reply to wrong person, intended to reply to @Scourge.
I don’t see any reason to test CPU @ 4K ….
I do, as well as others, especially for 1440p…
Whatever helps you sleep at night mate…
5 days ago I might add as well.
No, it really is what helps you sleep at night, because it took you 5 days to come back at me, from a different comment strain, for a point that was made over 5 days ago.
No safe space needed mate, but I guess you really need one after wasting people’s time.
No need to wish me good luck, not when you don’t intend for it. Drop the “better man” act, because there is none to be found on here.
And yet you decided after 5 days to respond to it, as if there were something to gain from a 5 day old post.
Could I ask what you thought to gain from such a late comment?.
I never once thought it was a scenario where it becomes “better than you”. I just disagree with your general thought process, because really, if we applied that to say 50 years from now, it frankly wouldn’t fly and apply.
You know CPU’s can be benched on CPU intensive scenarios, not just limited to 1080p, because we know we’ve tested before 1080p was even around, and it won’t stay 1080p benching for 50-100 years either and you know that as much as I do.
I’m not specifically asking for what happens during those benches. I just want to see a CPU bench test environment, where it’s tested at 1440p, with multiple settings turned to max, that are CPU intensive. I couldn’t care about the resolution part being GPU related, because I already knew that. I was simply asking for an environment that’s basically suited to where I am currently at with my setup, which is a 1440p based one, not 1080p. Any 1080p bench, be it GPU or CPU related is worthless to me, because I know the benching on a 1440p system would end up performing differently.
I do apologize for being rash beforehand. I’ve got some stuff on my plate irl, and over the past few days, it reached boiling point.
Performance metrics, not visual quality benches.
At 1440p you are mostly GPU bottlenecked, so you end up benchmarking the GPU instead of the CPU (and going to 4K, your CPU choice becomes mostly irrelevant). Now explain to me why in the freaking heck they’d want to benchmark a GPU for a CPU reveal???? For the love of God, please learn how CPU benchmarking actually works…
So you’re telling me that till the end of time, we’ll never need CPU benches for above 1080p res?.
Factually forever?.
If the answer is yes, you blew my mind, if no, then you’ve goofed.
My FX8350 looked at me today with its little wet eyes and said “Foxy…don’t leave me please…”.
I said to him “Don’t worry mate, you did well for these years aside from what people said about you…but it is time to go, my father will still use you but not for gaming anymore”.
Ryzen here we go!
U sound crazy. Intel will not die from this.
Intel has NOTHING major for desktop on their roadmap’s till 2021!!! Even next year’s 10c/10t “Comet Lake” is just 14nm Coffee Lake + 2x more cores & HT disabled. Gonna pull more power than a house furnace and STILL get it’s butt absolutely wrecked by the Ryzen 9 3950X.
These are AMD’s benchmark, that don’t mean sh*t if you ask me! They always show up to par when they release stuff and yet Intel dominates them in the real world every single time so I’ll pass. You get what you pay for in tech, it’s just the way it is.
Well i have a 8700k 2080ti rig and a 2700x radeon 7 rig. And a 5820k 2080 rig but im gonna replace my daily driver pc the 8700k with the 3900x and the aorus master or crosshair viii even though i thought about using the crosshair vii i have with the the 2700x and just get a b450 mb for it. But the new vrm’s on the x570’s seem to be a step above the x470. I will probably preorder on the 1st because i have a filling it will be hard to find for awhile. And i hope we get an all core of 4.4-4.5 and are able to oc to 4.6-4.7 but im sure 5ghz is way out of the question. And i dont think amd will take the gaming crown from 8700k, 9700k or 9900k but it will be so much closer and destroy them in multithreaded applications. The 9900KF will take the gaming crown but ill take a little less gaming performance for 12 cores. I play at 3440×1440 120hz on my main rig and 1440p 144hz on my other ones. So the only place amd will not do as good at is 1080p and if your buying a 3900x you should have at least a 1440p display. I hope more people will get 1440p displays now with freesync displays that are gsync compatible for under $300. I already have $1000 put back for the 3900x and the motherboard and just ordered a kracken x72 for cooling it. I guess time will tell but if i was a betting man i would say the 3900x is gonna be a great cpu.
It is even fastest than the Intel Core i9-9920X, which has the same number of cores and threads. While the 3950X is 32% more powerful comparing to the 9960X. We can say that AMD has succeeded with this new bet of better and cheapest chips!
https://gadgetversus.com/processor/amd-ryzen-9-3900x-vs-intel-core-i9-9920x/
Intel will have to drastically revises its prices.