AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and Ryzen 7 3700X Review: Kings of Productivity

For many mainstream consumers: absolutely.

Obviously it's a huge deal for professionals who fall within the targeted use cases.
define a "mainstream consumer", because I fail to understand this type of logic.

as a mainstream PC user you've never had to instal software bigger than chrome? or use archives bigger than 1GB? hell, just how many of your "mainstream" friends have used photoshop and other similar software (legal or not :p)?

The whole idea that you have to a pro to make use of a better CPU is just not realistic and defies logic.
 
I am disappointed that Intel's grumblings about "real-world gaming" turned out to be right on the money. And these reviews didn't even include the i9-9980XE, which is available now from Intel, while the Ryzen competitor will only come out in September. So you can still get something from Intel that even does Cinebench better than anything from AMD. (For a much higher price, of course.)
But I'm not disappointed enough not to come to the conclusion that AMD is the best choice by far for nearly everyone looking for a new computer today.
AMD is lucky the 10nm desktop chips with AVX-512 support from Intel aren't out yet. As AMD claims to have designed these Ryzen chips for head-on competition with them, they were actually planning to bring to market something that was too little, too late. Lucky them, they failed at that plan.
You want to compare a 2000$ workstation CPU to sub 500$ mainstream CPUs? O_o Why?
 
Nothing new here. AMD is STILL playing the catch-up game. Pass.

Waiting with popcorn for the AMD warriors. Bring 'em on... **munch...munch**

Ah, yes, the Intel superiority crowd, enjoying their marginal lead in a select few games while basking in almost double the price (and no hyper-threading) and way more power consumption and heat.

Anyone thinking AMD was going to suddenly catch up to Intel after a decade behind is not being realistic.

The fact of the matter is AMD is trading blows with a company 10x it's size, and delivering awesome value for customers. How anyone views that as a loss is beyond me.

"Marginal lead" -> 30fps on the 1% lows on a lot of games. More damage control please. 2 weeks ago AMD would obliterate Intel in everything and no one would have any reason to buy Intel anymore.

LOL, wrong. Not "on a lot of games," instead in just one game at one resolution with a high 140fps already. Cherry pick your data much?

Intel games faster with a top end card at lower resolutions, but hyperbole only hurts any argument you might have.

I guess we read different reviews? Even at 1440p the AMD chips were behind INtel on basically every game? Now imagine people with high refresh monitors using medium settings (or even lower on multiplayer shooters). You get a 400€ CPU and surprise surprise, you can´t even have the amount of framerate you wanted to remain competitive and have better mouse input lag. You still battling with an overclocked 6700k from 2015. Embarrasing.

More damage control please. AMD still playing the catch up game in gaming, it is what it is.
The heck are you talking about? The only big difference in 1% lows is in world war z, and that's at 1080p with the minimum frames already above 144. Seriously, the heck are you drinking?

Sure the 9900k is marginally better at gaming, but honestly, with that price it's really really hard to recommend it over the 12c/24t monster that is the 3900x.

Lowering the details won't make the difference bigger, why would it?
 
"Marginal lead" -> 30fps on the 1% lows on a lot of games. More damage control please. 2 weeks ago AMD would obliterate Intel in everything and no one would have any reason to buy Intel anymore.

You mean not a single a game here or on any other review. I sure hope Intel is paying you decently.
 
I build to play games. Ryzen has fallen short of expectation for me. Far short, it’s on 7nm when Intel is on 14nm and yet it’s what 10% slower than Intel?

I genuinely expected Ryzen 2 to be the stronger gaming chip so personally I’m a little disappointed. If I was building now, I’d still pick the 9900K.

However, it does appear that if you aren’t a gamer then Ryzen has Intel beat almost across the board and this should be commended. Ryzen 2 is better than Intel 9xxx series in general, just not for what I buy and use these chips for - gaming. And yes I am aware the difference is small, so what? There’s still a difference, if I only buy to game then why the hell should I care about video encoding performance? I only edit and encode videos abroad in a hotel on an iPad. I basically never use my home PC to do it.

Oh and you’ve got to be having a laugh if you think I’d buy one these Ryzen CPUs and use that wraith cooler on it. I’d buy an aftermarket cooler regardless. I’m not sold on this value add by bundling the cooler. To me it’s e-waste and I’d rather save a few dollars and have no cooler.
 
According to linus review, 3900x is 50 fps faster than the 9900k in Rainbow 6 and a bit faster in cs go as well ;)
 
@Evernessince Are you serious, go to AMDs own forums. This stuff has been going on for years.
SMT being more efficient, maybe but in terms of gaming, not a chance. Hell, people actually turn the damn thing off most of the time. The same goes for Intels HT. Both get turned off due to issues with performance and/or security issues.

Is this a post from 5 years ago? No people do not turn SMT or HT off anymore (well maybe HT now due to security issues). HT / SMT has not been an issue in games in ages.

Keep reading through their CPU forums...
The Ryzen platform has been plagued with reported "game stuttering" issues since release.
Please see the AMD forums for more information.
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Besides the "Standby memory cleaner"; there is no fix.

There is a reason why many "gamers" are jumping ship....
While Ryzen is a HUGE jump over the FX/FM platform; it was rushed (in order to keep AMD out of bankruptcy).
We're hoping that the 3rd generation corrects this (and other) issue(s).

-This comes by way of a user who posted in the nvidia forums.

Yes and if I go to the Nvidia or Intel forums I too can find any issue I search for as well

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I'm not going to pretend this somehow means it is widespread. You seem to jump to conclusions based on a simple forums search. Using that logic I could "prove" Intel, Nvidia, or AMD have any and every issue. Black screen? BSOD? You can get pages and pages of both on any hardware forum. It's always curious when someone links a forums search as "evidence", more so that the person doing the linking it in the first place somehow believes it in any way constitutes anything other then it actually is. Worse still that someone would come to the conclusion that issues presented on a forum represent more occurrences then they actually appear on the forums a.k.a "widespread" based once again on nothing but a search results page.

Tech Jesus recommends not buying the 3900X for gaming only setups. OUCH!!!
AMD forgot that flagship CPU's are supposed to perform better than the rest of the lineup. It's too bad for AMD that 12 cores is too many cores too soon to be part of the Ryzen lineup. This should have totally been a Threadripper part.

Oh well. There's always Zen 3, because Intel 14nm lives on...

This statement is incorrect. Steve from GamersNexus recommends a 9900K for high refresh rate gaming. He most certainly did not say "do not buy the 3900X for gaming". I'm going to post a link as you seem to thrive off stripping reviews of their context


It is amazing to me that someone could hear "I recommend the 9900K for gaming only rigs" and interpret it as "Don't buy the 3900X for gaming only rigs!". The 9900K getting the recommendation doesn't suddenly make the 3900X bad for gaming.

You also seem to have left out the fact that steve recommended the 3600 for all categories, including gaming.


Oh and you’ve got to be having a laugh if you think I’d buy one these Ryzen CPUs and use that wraith cooler on it. I’d buy an aftermarket cooler regardless. I’m not sold on this value add by bundling the cooler. To me it’s e-waste and I’d rather save a few dollars and have no cooler.

The review pretty clearly shows the cooler performing well even with the flagship CPU. But yeah, don't like it sell it on eBay for $30. That's what I did with my 2700X cooler. I'm thinking you haven't actually seen the wraith max in person. It isn't a rinky dink Intel stock cooler, it's pretty hefty. You are about the first person I've seen complain about a free 125w TDP RGB cooler.
 
Nope, he made a valid point. Why did you test that game in DX11 when the game is a DX12 ready title? Additionally, you tested Battlefield V with DX11 as well when that game also has DX12 support. Also, you could have chosen more modern titles like Battlefield 1 and Metro Exodus for example..

You are trolling him and in doing so you are completely out of line. What seems clear is that you either didn't do your due diligence, or you deliberately skewed the results. Either way, it calls your entire testing methodology into question, and with your comment completely invalidated the objectivity of your review and have shown good reason to doubt your professionalism.

Poor showing here. Very poor indeed.

DX12 frame time performance in BFV is bad, so we don't use it. Would you like me to add DX12 support to ACO?


Hey sorry for asking this but are you planning to re-do benchmark? I heard that there were issues that new AMD Ryzen processors weren't able to reach maximum boost speed and that they released driver already so results might be even better.
 
I was all set to buy the Chip till I saw the Prices for the M.B. they START at 200. and go up 3-400 $$$$ Did you see in Gaming the I-5 9600 K BEAT or Tied these 2 Chips in gaming. I saw it on sale the other day for 225 $$ and it doesn't need a 3-400 M.B. That is NOW the Chip I want that was in 1440 2K.
Obviously not checked this at all. My ~$75 Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 Motherboard had chipset drivers released a few days ago to support 3rd gen Ryzen... At least do some research about what boards support 3rd gen Ryzen before stating the motherboards are too expensive. Intel is still the king of expensive boards.
 
@Evernessince lol Plenty of people turn off HT and SMT. Do you not know how to do research? SMT has been recommend as being turned off for years since Ryzen came out. You would know this by researching.
Even TechSpot had articles on this.
You can search just about any forum and you will see people have smt or ht turned off. Some will even recommend it off.

I personally never turned HT off as I never ran into issues like some did. My 9700K doesn’t use HT so it no longer means anything to me.

Also I never said wide spread. That’s you. I simply said that people turn off ht and smt, cause they do. Users do these things, more so gamers.
 
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@Evernessince Are you serious, go to AMDs own forums. This stuff has been going on for years.
SMT being more efficient, maybe but in terms of gaming, not a chance. Hell, people actually turn the damn thing off most of the time. The same goes for Intels HT. Both get turned off due to issues with performance and/or security issues.

Is this a post from 5 years ago? No people do not turn SMT or HT off anymore (well maybe HT now due to security issues). HT / SMT has not been an issue in games in ages.

Keep reading through their CPU forums...
The Ryzen platform has been plagued with reported "game stuttering" issues since release.
Please see the AMD forums for more information.
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Besides the "Standby memory cleaner"; there is no fix.

There is a reason why many "gamers" are jumping ship....
While Ryzen is a HUGE jump over the FX/FM platform; it was rushed (in order to keep AMD out of bankruptcy).
We're hoping that the 3rd generation corrects this (and other) issue(s).

-This comes by way of a user who posted in the nvidia forums.

Yes and if I go to the Nvidia or Intel forums I too can find any issue I search for as well

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I'm not going to pretend this somehow means it is widespread. You seem to jump to conclusions based on a simple forums search. Using that logic I could "prove" Intel, Nvidia, or AMD have any and every issue. Black screen? BSOD? You can get pages and pages of both on any hardware forum. It's always curious when someone links a forums search as "evidence", more so that the person doing the linking it in the first place somehow believes it in any way constitutes anything other then it actually is. Worse still that someone would come to the conclusion that issues presented on a forum represent more occurrences then they actually appear on the forums a.k.a "widespread" based once again on nothing but a search results page.

Tech Jesus recommends not buying the 3900X for gaming only setups. OUCH!!!
AMD forgot that flagship CPU's are supposed to perform better than the rest of the lineup. It's too bad for AMD that 12 cores is too many cores too soon to be part of the Ryzen lineup. This should have totally been a Threadripper part.

Oh well. There's always Zen 3, because Intel 14nm lives on...

This statement is incorrect. Steve from GamersNexus recommends a 9900K for high refresh rate gaming. He most certainly did not say "do not buy the 3900X for gaming". I'm going to post a link as you seem to thrive off stripping reviews of their context


It is amazing to me that someone could hear "I recommend the 9900K for gaming only rigs" and interpret it as "Don't buy the 3900X for gaming only rigs!". The 9900K getting the recommendation doesn't suddenly make the 3900X bad for gaming.

You also seem to have left out the fact that steve recommended the 3600 for all categories, including gaming.


Oh and you’ve got to be having a laugh if you think I’d buy one these Ryzen CPUs and use that wraith cooler on it. I’d buy an aftermarket cooler regardless. I’m not sold on this value add by bundling the cooler. To me it’s e-waste and I’d rather save a few dollars and have no cooler.

The review pretty clearly shows the cooler performing well even with the flagship CPU. But yeah, don't like it sell it on eBay for $30. That's what I did with my 2700X cooler. I'm thinking you haven't actually seen the wraith max in person. It isn't a rinky dink Intel stock cooler, it's pretty hefty. You are about the first person I've seen complain about a free 125w TDP RGB cooler.

I’m not “complaining” about the bundled free cooler I’m just stating that for me and probably quite a few others it’s not a value add. It looks like it’s pretty reasonable cooler but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t buy a better one. And you might sell it for $30 on eBay but chances are you won’t, I just looked and there are quite a few listings for the wraith prism at $10. What’s $10? It’s not a big deal at all, it’s not a problem they included it but the value graphs on this review are a bit unfair to people who are going to buy some kind of AIO or a big Noctua tower etc for this thing regardless. I mean in the case of a 3900X, this is a $500 CPU, are you telling me that there aren’t going to be people who won’t be happy with a bundled $10-$30 (whatever you want to value it at) cooler?
 
I still dont get some people here. So Intel is only superior in gaming? (That'sa obvious win there btw and I do care more about 0,1% lows than anything, still big differences).

I see people ignore the fact even 9700k is superior to 3700x and 3900x (!) on Photoshop,Premiere, fzd fotograph, etc

So saying Intel is only for gaming is wrong.
What are you talking about? The 3700X is above the 9700K in productivity by a wide margin.

From this article about Adobe Premiere (did you even read it?):
"The R9 3900X was 22% faster than the 9900K and even the 3700X edged out the 9900K, making it 25% faster than the 9700K.
Making these results more impressive is that Premiere is a very pro-Intel piece of software. AMD’s shown the 3900X to be a little over 50% faster than the 9900K in DaVinci Resolve"

The 9700K is pretty much dead in the water if you are just looking at productivity results compared to the 3700X.

I'm going to assume that you were referring to the Photoshop results from Gamers Nexus which puts a 9900K @5.2GHz above by about 6% compared to the 3900x. This is pretty much the only productivity application that favours clocks so much and that is also going to change with future performance updates to Photoshop, just like it did with Premiere. Premiere used to favour intel a lot more.

Luckily for Intel, it still is better in gaming, although you do need something like the 2080TI to notice any difference in benchmarks.
 
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What are you talking about? The 3700X is above the 9700K in productivity by a wide margin.

From this article about Adobe Premiere (did you even read it?):
"The R9 3900X was 22% faster than the 9900K and even the 3700X edged out the 9900K, making it 25% faster than the 9700K.
Making these results more impressive is that Premiere is a very pro-Intel piece of software. AMD’s shown the 3900X to be a little over 50% faster than the 9900K in DaVinci Resolve"

The 9700K is pretty much dead in the water if you are just looking at productivity results compared to the 3700X.

I'm going to assume that you were referring to the Photoshop results from Gamers Nexus which puts a 9900K @5.2GHz above by about 6% compared to the 3900x. This is pretty much the only productivity application that favours clocks so much and that is also going to change with future performance updates to Photoshop, just like it did with Premiere. Premiere used to favour intel a lot more.

Luckily for Intel, it still is better in gaming, although you do need something like the 2080TI to notice any difference in benchmarks.

TechpowerUp Premiere: https://tpucdn.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-3900x/images/premiere-pro.png

Plus you don´t need a 2080ti to notice difference in benchmarks you just need to play at lower settings like everyone does on first person shooters online.
 
TechpowerUp Premiere: https://tpucdn.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-3900x/images/premiere-pro.png

Plus you don´t need a 2080ti to notice difference in benchmarks you just need to play at lower settings like everyone does on first person shooters online.
I can also show you multiple Premiere results that put Ryzen above. It depends a lot on the workload, but it seems that the majority of tests are very much in favour of Ryzen even when using Premiere:


As for your "just play at lower settings" only applies to a few games. What? You need more than 4-500 FPS in CS? I can assure you that I've been playing CS since 2000-2001 and you will never ever see a difference above 240 fps (this is assuming that you actually have a 240Hz monitor).
 
I can also show you multiple Premiere results that put Ryzen above. It depends a lot on the workload, but it seems that the majority of tests are very much in favour of Ryzen even when using Premiere:


As for your "just play at lower settings" only applies to a few games. What? You need more than 4-500 FPS in CS? I can assure you that I've been playing CS since 2000-2001 and you will never ever see a difference above 240 fps (this is assuming that you actually have a 240Hz monitor).

Who talked about CS? You again with this non sense just like when we talked about Ryzen 2000 vs Intel. you also said in that time that the difference was minimal, now Ryzen 3000 is out and the difference is minimal, so afterall 2000 was far right? Yeah....

Do yourself a favor and go check what happens when you play games like:

- Battlefield V Multiplayer COnquest Large 64 players
- Black Ops 4 Multiplayer
- Quake Champions
- Escape from Tarkov
- Arma 3
- Apex Legends

Use 1080p with Low/Medium settings with a good GPU. Watch the comparasions between AMD and Intel on that scenario, specifically the 0,1% lows. Even on this review with GPU bottleneck and SINGLE PLAYER, you can see Intel leads on Battlefield. 125fps 1% lows vs 111 on AMD, 168 average vs 155. That´s with GPU at 100%.

You DO NOT need a 2080 ti to take advantage of a faster gaming CPU. Most people that play shooters online use lower settings to get the highest fps possible, and on those scenarios the GPU usage is already lower than 100% for the most part, wich also reduces input lag as any FPS player knows (100% usage = more Mouse latency, you want the GPU at 85% max, preferbaly lower than that).

There are some nasty differences on that scenario, this is just an example, with a whooping 40fps difference:

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Another example, from GN with a whooping 50fps difference:

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Talk more about "5%" difference.

You guys have problems admiting things as they are. I have no problems saying 3900x obliterates any Intel offer productivity wise as it costs same as 9900k and does WAY more at most productivity tasks, but saying AMD RYzen 3000 is as good as Intel in games or that "You won´t notice" is straight BS. Sorry.

And you guys want to talk about GPU bottlenecked situations? Fine, go grab a R5 2600 for 120€ then, it will offer same performance or within 5%, costing 2 to 3 times less.
 
I'm hoping that as the process gets refined they are able to clock higher. These are the first batch of a new process. Intel has refined 14nm to death and they are getting 5.0 GHz. I'm certainly impressed with how well AMD is doing and hope they keep pushing even harder. I don't care if you have a loyalty to either one, this is good for everyone.
 
I can also show you multiple Premiere results that put Ryzen above. It depends a lot on the workload, but it seems that the majority of tests are very much in favour of Ryzen even when using Premiere:


As for your "just play at lower settings" only applies to a few games. What? You need more than 4-500 FPS in CS? I can assure you that I've been playing CS since 2000-2001 and you will never ever see a difference above 240 fps (this is assuming that you actually have a 240Hz monitor).

Who talked about CS? You again with this non sense just like when we talked about Ryzen 2000 vs Intel. you also said in that time that the difference was minimal, now Ryzen 3000 is out and the difference is minimal, so afterall 2000 was far right? Yeah....

Do yourself a favor and go check what happens when you play games like:

- Battlefield V Multiplayer COnquest Large 64 players
- Black Ops 4 Multiplayer
- Quake Champions
- Escape from Tarkov
- Arma 3
- Apex Legends

Use 1080p with Low/Medium settings with a good GPU. Watch the comparasions between AMD and Intel on that scenario, specifically the 0,1% lows. Even on this review with GPU bottleneck and SINGLE PLAYER, you can see Intel leads on Battlefield. 125fps 1% lows vs 111 on AMD, 168 average vs 155. That´s with GPU at 100%.

You DO NOT need a 2080 ti to take advantage of a faster gaming CPU. Most people that play shooters online use lower settings to get the highest fps possible, and on those scenarios the GPU usage is already lower than 100% for the most part, wich also reduces input lag as any FPS player knows (100% usage = more Mouse latency, you want the GPU at 85% max, preferbaly lower than that).

There are some nasty differences on that scenario, this is just an example, with a whooping 40fps difference:

metro-exodus-1280-720.png


Another example, from GN with a whooping 50fps difference:

DCyUkyV.png


Talk more about "5%" difference.

You guys have problems admiting things as they are. I have no problems saying 3900x obliterates any Intel offer productivity wise as it costs same as 9900k and does WAY more at most productivity tasks, but saying AMD RYzen 3000 is as good as Intel in games or that "You won´t notice" is straight BS. Sorry.

And you guys want to talk about GPU bottlenecked situations? Fine, go grab a R5 2600 for 120€ then, it will offer same performance or within 5%, costing 2 to 3 times less.


I can also show you multiple Premiere results that put Ryzen above. It depends a lot on the workload, but it seems that the majority of tests are very much in favour of Ryzen even when using Premiere:


As for your "just play at lower settings" only applies to a few games. What? You need more than 4-500 FPS in CS? I can assure you that I've been playing CS since 2000-2001 and you will never ever see a difference above 240 fps (this is assuming that you actually have a 240Hz monitor).

Who talked about CS? You again with this non sense just like when we talked about Ryzen 2000 vs Intel. you also said in that time that the difference was minimal, now Ryzen 3000 is out and the difference is minimal, so afterall 2000 was far right? Yeah....

Do yourself a favor and go check what happens when you play games like:

- Battlefield V Multiplayer COnquest Large 64 players
- Black Ops 4 Multiplayer
- Quake Champions
- Escape from Tarkov
- Arma 3
- Apex Legends

Use 1080p with Low/Medium settings with a good GPU. Watch the comparasions between AMD and Intel on that scenario, specifically the 0,1% lows. Even on this review with GPU bottleneck and SINGLE PLAYER, you can see Intel leads on Battlefield. 125fps 1% lows vs 111 on AMD, 168 average vs 155. That´s with GPU at 100%.

You DO NOT need a 2080 ti to take advantage of a faster gaming CPU. Most people that play shooters online use lower settings to get the highest fps possible, and on those scenarios the GPU usage is already lower than 100% for the most part, wich also reduces input lag as any FPS player knows (100% usage = more Mouse latency, you want the GPU at 85% max, preferbaly lower than that).

There are some nasty differences on that scenario, this is just an example, with a whooping 40fps difference:

metro-exodus-1280-720.png


Another example, from GN with a whooping 50fps difference:

DCyUkyV.png


Talk more about "5%" difference.

You guys have problems admiting things as they are. I have no problems saying 3900x obliterates any Intel offer productivity wise as it costs same as 9900k and does WAY more at most productivity tasks, but saying AMD RYzen 3000 is as good as Intel in games or that "You won´t notice" is straight BS. Sorry.

And you guys want to talk about GPU bottlenecked situations? Fine, go grab a R5 2600 for 120€ then, it will offer same performance or within 5%, costing 2 to 3 times less.

This is literally the definition of cherry picking benchmarks, and you are doing it the day after launch... You should give things some time to mature. Thats six games, but there are literally thousands of games out there. Some AMD is right on par or outperforming the 9900K.

The best benchmark for gaming performance is to benchmark dozens of games and work out an average. You honestly can't pick reviews from multiple sites (reviews that already have a performance discrepancy), pick 5-6 games from that review that a piece of hardware performs worse in and end up with a good opinion the day after launch. It just doesn't work that way.
 
Who talked about CS? You again with this non sense just like when we talked about Ryzen 2000 vs Intel. you also said in that time that the difference was minimal, now Ryzen 3000 is out and the difference is minimal, so afterall 2000 was far right? Yeah....

Do yourself a favor and go check what happens when you play games like:

- Battlefield V Multiplayer COnquest Large 64 players
- Black Ops 4 Multiplayer
- Quake Champions
- Escape from Tarkov
- Arma 3
- Apex Legends

Use 1080p with Low/Medium settings with a good GPU. Watch the comparasions between AMD and Intel on that scenario, specifically the 0,1% lows. Even on this review with GPU bottleneck and SINGLE PLAYER, you can see Intel leads on Battlefield. 125fps 1% lows vs 111 on AMD, 168 average vs 155. That´s with GPU at 100%.

You DO NOT need a 2080 ti to take advantage of a faster gaming CPU. Most people that play shooters online use lower settings to get the highest fps possible, and on those scenarios the GPU usage is already lower than 100% for the most part, wich also reduces input lag as any FPS player knows (100% usage = more Mouse latency, you want the GPU at 85% max, preferbaly lower than that).

There are some nasty differences on that scenario, this is just an example, with a whooping 40fps difference:

metro-exodus-1280-720.png


Another example, from GN with a whooping 50fps difference:

DCyUkyV.png


Talk more about "5%" difference.

You guys have problems admiting things as they are. I have no problems saying 3900x obliterates any Intel offer productivity wise as it costs same as 9900k and does WAY more at most productivity tasks, but saying AMD RYzen 3000 is as good as Intel in games or that "You won´t notice" is straight BS. Sorry.

And you guys want to talk about GPU bottlenecked situations? Fine, go grab a R5 2600 for 120€ then, it will offer same performance or within 5%, costing 2 to 3 times less.

Do you really want me to link you several BF benchmarks that show exactly what I said? I already did this multiple times for others that were quick to mention BF.

Techspot itself has the 64 man BFV benchmark and at 1080p the game is CPU bound with the 9900K achieving 151 average FPS and the 2700X achieving 130 FPS, a 16% difference. Others have the the two even closer but in more GPU bound situations.

Productivity tasks are easily quantifiable. Your counter-argument here is to say with a straight face that you'll notice a difference between 160FPS and 190FPS at 720p when using a top of the line ultra high end CPU and ultra high end GPU.

Nobody is denying that Intel is still better at gaming, but coming here and showing 1-2 titles that favour Intel and ignoring literally pages and pages of benchmarks done by tens of publications is disingenuous at best.

As for your cherry picked "50fps" picture from GN, that game just has issues with SMT, something that GN themselves addressed in their 3900X review. As you can see even the stock 3600 gets 165FPS in that title:
https://I.ibb.co/L04t0vH/Screenshot-2019-07-08-at-16-10-17.png

I don't get why people don't read/watch the full reviews before entering into a heated debate.
 
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This is literally the definition of cherry picking benchmarks, and you are doing it the day after launch... You should give things some time to mature. Thats six games, but there are literally thousands of games out there. Some AMD is right on par or outperforming the 9900K.

The best benchmark for gaming performance is to benchmark dozens of games and work out an average. You honestly can't pick reviews from multiple sites (reviews that already have a performance discrepancy), pick 5-6 games from that review that a piece of hardware performs worse in and end up with a good opinion the day after launch. It just doesn't work that way.

That makes no sense, why Would I have to wait for things to "mature"? We analyze hardware with the numbers we have, day 1. I´m not futurology expert, no one can warranty that performance will get better in 1 year, we are comparing things now. Those are the numbers.

When even Steven from GamerNexus said "do not buy the 3900x for gaming, get 9900k instead" (just like he said do not buy 9900k for productivity, get the 3900x instead), enough said. It doesn´t take a lot of work to watch his video review he uploaded today and check how Intel runs circles around AMD on most games, and his review is very complete because he overclocks every CPU and also shows 0,1% Lows.

He also concluded saying you can´t except one CPU to be the best in everything and EACH USER has different needs. I´m a gamer, I don´t give a crap about Renders or encoding. I want frames. Intel delivers more frames? I buy Intel. AMD delivers more frames? I buy AMD, simple as that. Making up excuses won´t change the facts.

And once again, if we talk about real value, we talk about R5 2600 wich costs 120€ now. That presents more value than any Ryzen 3000 right now and ofc better value than any Intel offering.
 
I wish reviewers would start including the occasional blind test experiment in addition to traditional measurements...just in order to give some perspective on where subjectivity and objective measurements meet. Seems to me the battleground in games was in the 30-40 fps area several years ago, and things have been moving up ever since. This is a good thing of course, but there is such a thing as diminishing returns at some point (even with a high refresh monitor and the reflexes of a 22 year old esports champion). A lot of people aren't able to balance or weight these considerations and it could be very informative. It's reasonable to say that someone would notice a 20% fps increase from 30 to 36 fps but that is certainly a bigger perceivable change than a 20% increase from 100 to 120 fps which is a bigger perceivable change than a 20% increase from 500 to 600 fps.
 
I'm just going to throw in a few more benchmarks and repeat what I said because someone here is still cherry picking benchmarks. Even at 720p, a resolution that no PC gamer with a half decent rig has used in a decade, the overall difference between Ryzen 3000 and Intel 9000 is small.

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I said, ONLINE. Not singlep layer campaign. Plus, I´m not the only one saying this. Take a look at conclusions on TpU about the 3900x, listed as cons.
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See? I´m not the only one disapointed and no matter how many "5%" BS you guys throw at it, it won´t change the fact these CPUs in gaming compete with 7700k from 2017.

1) You misleadingly left out TPU's actual text and benchmarks in order to distort their conclusion. This is what TPU's conclusion said: "When looking at gaming, our results confirm that AMD has caught up big time here, too, and the performance differences are much smaller. At higher resolutions like 1440p and 4K, the gap is pretty much non-existent, and parity with Intel has been reached."

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-3900x/23.html

Their actual benchmarks show the Ryzen 3700X performing within 6% of the i9 9900K at 1080p and within 2% of the 9900k at 1440p. TPU is clearly saying Intel is faster overall, but they are negligibly faster.

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2) Let's see what Techspot has to say: "The 3900X was 8% slower than the 9900K on average at 1080p, so AMD’s halved the deficit to Intel in gaming. Then as we’ve found before with Ryzen, for almost anything else the 3900X buries the 9900K, while the 3700X delivers comparable performance."

3) Not sure how many times I have to explain to you that 90% of something is actually a 10% difference, not a 5% difference. Why do you keep making fictional claims like "people are throwing out 5%"? I clearly said multiple times that the Ryzen 3000 is "90%-95%" of Intel 9000 in most cases.

4) Intel's 7700K also competes with Intel's own 9000 cpu series in many games. According to your own logic, Intel 9000s aren't very good because the several years old 7700k performs almost as good in these games?

5) Speaking of fictional claims, the only BS here is the fictional numbers you're throwing around like claiming Intel got 200 fps in Battlefield V and then cherry picking a single example like World War Z at 1080p. Now you're trying to back track by claiming you were talking about some other benchmark and online play, but you were clearly comparing Techspot's benchmarks when you said this in your earlier post: "Battlefield V is a good example, with 9700k flying at 200fps and Ryzen 3900x at 155fps."
This is like your earlier claim that there were big differences between AMD and Intel in Hitman and Tomb Raider, but the actual Techspot benchmarks showed there was only a 10fps difference between the 3700X and 9700k in Tomb Raider at 1080p and 2-7fps difference 1440p. In Hitman 2, there is an 18 fps difference at 1080p and a 8fps difference at 1440p. You are just straight up making fictional claims and fictional numbers.

6) Techspot's conclusion says the difference between the 3900X and 9900K is around 8%, while Techpowerup benchmarks show the gaming difference between the 3700X and 9900K is 2-6% in gaming at 1440p and 1080p respectively. These are actual benchmarks and conclusions by Techspot and Techpowerup and not fictional numbers you made up.

The recurring theme here is that you're being intentionally misleading by leaving out contextual information to distort conclusions, cherry picking, and even straight up making up fictional claims.
 
A lot of people on here are admitting that Ryzen 2 is slower at games than Intel but saying it doesn’t matter because you can’t tell the difference. Well, you’re right in that in most cases you won’t be able to tell the difference. However, if you’re buying a CPU purely to game with - and it’s clear that a lot of people will be. It doesn’t really make any sense to choose the slower part. It’s like saying don’t buy a 5700 over an RX590 if gaming at 1080p because you won’t be able to notice the difference. Also, it’s likely that in say 3 years time or whatever you will be buying a GPU upgrade that will be considerably more powerful than anything available today and that will shift more games to bottlenecking on the CPU. Games will also become more CPU hungry with time as games become more comprehensive. When these things happen, there’s a good chance you will be able to notice the difference in these games.

But really, it still doesn’t make any sense to me to buy a weaker performing part at what you are planning to do with it. There are some productivity tests that show Intel very close in performance to Ryzen to the point where you probably wouldn’t notice but that doesn’t mean you’d pick Intel over AMD if you’re planning to use it for that particular application. Such a suggestion would be ridiculous.

And I don’t buy the value gamer argument, Ryzen 2 has poor value compared to the now discounted ryzen+, which you also won’t be able to tell the difference between - many claimed this between Ryzen+ and Intel so why not just buy that if you’re after value? Ryzen is cheaper than Intel but neither is cheap, if you’re buying for gaming only then I can’t see why you would pick Ryzen 2 over either Ryzen+ for value or over Intel for absolute performance.

Don’t get me wrong of course, Ryzen 2 is clearly a much better family of CPUs than Intel’s 14nm stuff practically across the board - for 19/20 users perhaps. But not if you’re a performance minded gamer. I don’t understand it, the graphs are black and white and if you’re an AMD fan you should be very happy that AMD are now dominating Intel in almost every area. It’s like you want it to be perfect to the point where AMD is literally better at everything. You can’t have everything!

Basically be happy AMD fans. All Intel have got now are the gaming performance enthusiasts like me. We are pleasure users, not people actually using this stuff for work. Those guys should be buying Ryzen.
 
Intel is still faster in gaming for 2 reasons:

1. Intel CPUs have a slightly higher clock. Which wouldn't be that important, if it wasn't for this second point below...

2. Games are still very poorly programmed. Most of them don't use multiple threads. Yes, in the year 2019. That's how crappy they are. Reminds me of the days of DOS gaming, when some games didn't use GPU. It didn't matter how much money you spent on the GPU when the stupid game used CPU for rendering. We have a similar situation today with multi-threading. Hardware is getting more and more advanced, while programmers are crappier and lazier every day. Those who know how to parallelize workload can ask for astronomical salaries.

But if you're gaming and AT THE SAME TIME doing something else in the background, AMD should be the winner. Let's say you're zipping/unzipping/backuping files in the background, or recompressing a video, while at the same time playing your favorite game in the foreground.

It would be cool to measure the gaming performance while capturing gameplay and compressing it to a video file. Or while streaming the gameplay on Twitch. That's my benchmarking suggestion for all the streamers out there.

I'm new to the PC scene ,but in your opinion which would be better for me I usually have many tabs going for browsing,research , various things etc etc ,which would be better for me if I am gaming and also have multiple tabs open as well? the Intel 9900k or the Amd 3900x Or is that more of a RAM thing ? Or do I need both.
dont woory so uch about the cpu , even a quad core Apollo lake N3455 will do.. but get lots of ram min 8gb 16gb better 32gb best.
BTW most ppl will have a budget when buying a CPU and at practically every segment the best peformant CPU will be AMD, better value for money. Everything else is just Horse-dressing Flim-Flam.
 
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