Poor | Average | Good | Excellent | |
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Processor lithography | 7 nm Best: HP AMD EPYC 7702 Processor lithography: 7 nm | |||
Number of cores | 12 Best: Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor 7290 Number of cores: 72 | |||
Clock speed | 3.1 GHz Best: AMD FX 9590 Clock speed: 4.7 GHz | |||
Max turbo speed | 4.3 GHz Best: Cisco Intel Xeon E5-2609 Max turbo speed: 24 GHz |
If you're a content creator who hasn't already dabbled with AMD's killer Zen 2 Ryzen CPUs, the Ryzen 3900XT, a tune-up of the 12-core 3900X, is worth a second glance in its price lane.
The Ryzen 9 3900XT is the flagship of the new AMD Ryzen XT series. It comes with higher boost clocks and can sustain them better, which helps with single-threaded workloads. In our Ryzen 9 3900XT review, we also saw better overclocking and lower temperatures than on the original Ryzen 9 3900X.
The AMD Ryzen 9 3900 might be the best CPU on the market right now but you can't actually go out and buy it
AMD's 12-core 65W CPU gets an outing.
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