![]() As I explained over in my AMD Ryzen 7 3700X review, getting an accurate picture of a CPU's gaming chops is still pretty difficult. Instead, I want to know which CPU is best tuned to give me the fastest speeds while playing games - and in that respect, having 12 cores and 24 threads at my disposal makes absolutely naff all difference.īefore we dive into my test results, though, a brief word about CPU gaming benchmarks. I'm not really fussed about how fast it can render animation programs or tear through creative applications. ![]() Again, I should stress that, much like my other gaming CPU reviews, my main priority here is finding the best gaming CPU for gaming, and gaming alone. Unfortunately, it's not a story that has a particularly happy ending for AMD. Its gaming prowess, however? That's a whole other story. Packing 12 cores and 24 threads as opposed to Intel's rather piddly-sounding 8-core-16-thread offering, the Ryzen 9 3900X is an absolute speed machine when it comes to general desktop performance. ![]() ![]() The Ryzen 9 3900X, however, is quite a bit beefier in the old specs department - and comes with a decent cooler bundled in the box, which its Intel rival does not. Priced at $499, AMD are positioning this chip as their Intel Core i9-9900K killer, which at time of writing is just a bit cheaper at £485 / $490. If you are one of these so-called power users with $500-odd to spare on getting the absolute bestest best gaming CPU money can buy, however, then your choices have literally just doubled with the introduction of AMD's new Ryzen 9 3900X. Should you ever spend $500 on a gaming CPU? Personally, I think you'd be mad to spend that kind of money on a processor, especially when Intel's Core i7-9700K offers such incredible gaming performance for about two thirds of the cost. ![]()
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