Besides an overview of the Ryzen 3000 processors was also published earlier than expected, which was supposed to appear only on Sunday, July 7. This time, the German resource PCGamesHardware.de stood out, which, of course, soon removed the page with the review of the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X processors, however, screenshots of charts with test results remained online.
Both processors were tested on the new ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard, which is based on the AMD X570 chipset. The board received the latest BIOS version for the correct operation of SMT and Turbo mode. The system was also equipped with 16 GB of DDR4 RAM operating at 3200 MHz and a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card.
Recall that the Ryzen 7 3700X processor has 8 Zen 2 cores and 16 threads. Its clock speeds are 3.6/4.4 GHz. The chip also has 36 MB of L3 cache, 40 PCI Express 4.0 lanes, and keeps within a TDP of just 65 W. The recommended price of the Ryzen 7 3700X will be $329.
On the other hand, the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 Zen 2 cores that can handle 24 computational threads. The base clock speed is 3.8 GHz, while in Turbo mode it reaches 4.6 GHz. The L3 cache size is 70 MB, and the number of PCI Express 4.0 lanes is also 40. The TDP of this chip is 105 W. The recommended price is $499.
Thus, the processors were tested in various games at a resolution of 720p, where the dependence of performance on the processor is most evident (it doesn’t ‘bottleneck’ in the graphics card). In gaming tests, both AMD chips managed to provide approximately the same performance, both minimum and maximum.
In Far Cry 5, the maximum FPS was quite close to that of the Core i7-7700K, but the minimum FPS of the Intel chip was higher. In Rise of The Tomb Raider, the Ryzen 7 3700X matched the Core i7-7700K, while the Ryzen 9 3900X was able to outperform this Intel chip. The processors on Zen 2 performed well in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, where they were roughly on par with the Core i5-8600K.
It is worth noting the testing results of the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X in the game Assassins Creed Odyssey, where they managed to surpass the higher Core i9-9900K by up to 6 FPS.
In video encoding with Handbrake (30 s, HEVT, 10 bit, 140 Mbps), the Ryzen 9 3900X performed similarly to the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX (148 vs. 142 seconds), while the Ryzen 7 3700X's result can be compared to that of the Core i9-9900K (212.8 vs. 211.7 seconds).
In the well-known Cinebench R15, the Ryzen 7 3700X outperformed the Core i9-9900K in the multi-threaded test (2180 vs. 2068 points) and fell slightly behind in the single-threaded test (207 vs. 213 points, respectively). The Ryzen 9 3900X showed the same single-threaded performance and managed to surpass the 18-core Core i9-7980XE in the multi-threaded test (3218 vs. 3217 points).
Finally, regarding power consumption, the high-end Ryzen 9 3900X, despite having more cores, consumed less than the Core i9-9900K. Meanwhile, the Ryzen 7 3700X turned out to be slightly more 'power-hungry' than its predecessor, the Ryzen 7 2700X, even though the TDP for these processors is 65 and 95 W, respectively.
Source: 3dnews.ru
