AMD appears to want to shake up the processor market with the unveiling of the third generation of the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X at the “Next Horizon Gaming” event during E3.
And again we will have to wait for Intel's response.
The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is a 16-core/32-thread chip based on the 7-nanometer Zen 2 architecture. The chip runs with a base clock speed of 3.5GHz, has a boost clock of 4.7GHz with an impressive 72MB cache.
It is the highest core count for a desktop processor aimed at the general public.
The Ryzen 9 3950X uses an AM4 socket and AMD recommends installing it on one of the company's new X570 motherboards that were released (announced) at Computex.
All of the above can happen at a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of just 105W. You can compare the result to AMD's 16-core Threadripper which has a TDP of 180W and Intel's 16-core offering with a TDP of 165W. No relation...
The 3950X uses two of the eight Zen 2 cores in combination with an IO die that provides 24 PCIe 4.0 lanes.
The price of $749 may be very high for today's processor prices aimed at “simple” users, but this particular chip shows us what AMD can do with the Zen 2 architecture.
Are you looking for high performance? What do you think of the company's price for this particular "mainstream" desktop processor? Would you buy it for your home computer?
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