AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

It’s not all just benchmarks today. AMD does have a trump card that Intel still lacks. I am, of course, talking about PCIe 4.0. For those wanting the bleeding edge of NVMe drives, AMD is where you’ll find it. The only real threat to the 3800X right now is the 3700X Both perform pretty close, but if you want to save a few quid, it’s a good option. Then again, if you want a little more performance, the 3800X is still a competitively priced solution.

If there is one main take-away from this review it would be that AMD has indeed created a mainstream processor line which no longer needs to rely upon more cores to compete with Intel. Instead AMD's Ryzen 7 3800X can easily go toe to toe with Intel and...

So yes, the Ryzen 7 3800X is an excellent buy, but only because the Ryzen 7 3700X already is, and because of that we can't recommend it to anyone who was looking to invest in an eight core 3rd Gen Ryzen CPU. Get the 3700X and put the savings towards some faster memory or something. Only if the extra few seconds you save in video rendering absolutely matter to you is the Ryzen 7 3800X worth buying over its brother, but equally if that's the case then save for the outstanding Ryzen 9 3900X. The Ryzen 7 3800X is a great CPU, but not significantly different enough from the 3700X to justify the extra expense.

So that's that, we have been able to take a good look at the Ryzen 7 3800X processor. There's one more left in September, the 16-core part. The 3800X is half that in the sense that it has 8-cores and 16-threads. The processor managed to seriously...

Out of the box, the Ryzen 7 3800X offers a better mixture of single- and multi-threaded performance than Intel's competing chips, and support for the PCIe 4.0 interface unlocks the potential of ultimate storage throughput. The impressive power...