AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Processor Review

System Overview & Testing Procedures

We are going to be testing a handful of processors today. We have listed the different systems we are using and their components.

AMD X570 System
Processors: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, Ryzen 7 3700X, Ryzen 7 2700X, Ryzen 5 2600X
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS Master
Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro 6G
Memory: 16GB G.SKILL Trident Z Royal 3600 MHz
Storage: Crucial MX 300 750GB
Cooling: Noctua NH-U12A
Power Supply: Corsair AX860i
Case: PrimoChill Praxis WetBench

Intel Z390 System
Processors: Intel Core i9-9900K, i7-8700K
Motherboard: ASRock Z390 Extreme4
Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro 6G
Memory: 16GB G.SKILL Trident Z Royal 3600 MHz
Storage: Crucial MX 300 750GB
Cooling: Noctua NH-U12A
Power Supply: Corsair AX860i
Case: PrimoChill Praxis WetBench

For testing the processors everything will be set to auto in the BIOS. The reason we do is because most people will have this setup on their own PC. This is the default mode if you do not go into the BIOS and change anything. For both Intel and AMD systems we did however enable the XMP profile for our memory.

Here are the specifications of all four processors we will be testing today.

Core i9-9900K: 3.6 GHz / 5.0 GHz
Core i7-8700K: 3.7 GHz / 4.7 GHz
Ryzen 9 3900X: 3.8 GHz / 4.6 GHz
Ryzen 7 3700X: 3.6 GHz / 4.4 GHz
Ryzen 7 2700X: 3.7 GHz / 4.3 GHz
Ryzen 7 1700X: 3.4 GHz / 3.8 GHz

Here are the tests that we will be running:

CPU Testing
AIDA64
– CPU Queen
– CPU ZLib
X265 Benchmark
POV-Ray 3.7
CINEBENCH R20
Sisoftware Sandra
– Processor Overall
– Processor Arithmetic
– Processor Multimedia
Geekbench

Graphics & Gaming
3DMark Time Spy
3DMark Fire Strike
Ashes Of The Singularity Escalation (1080p)
The Division 2 (1080p)
FarCry 5 (1080p)
Final Fantasy XV (1080p)

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