AMD surprised attendees at the by presenting their new Ryzen 3000 processors at the 2019 Computex Convention today. The AMD Ryzen 3000, which belongs to the third generation and have been developed with Zen 2 architecture, is announced to be more powerful, more efficient and cost half the price of their Intel competitor.
AMD CEO Lisa Su gave the Computex keynote in Taipei today, the first time the company has been invited to do so and took advantage of the event by announcing their next generation series of CPUs Ryzen 3000. These processors are all based on AMD's 7nm Zenn cores and use the same socket AM4 as previous models for continuity and ease of upgrades.
All Ryzen 3000 processors will become the first CPUs to use the next-generation PCIe 4 platform for even faster performance. With its Ryzen 3000 architecture, AMD has seen a 15% increase in pulse instruction (CPI), double the cache size to improve gaming performance, and double floating-point performance for creative workloads.
There will be three models of the Ryzen 3000 processor. The Ryzen 7 3700X will be the basic model of AMD, which has eight cores and 16 threads and a basic speed of 3.6GHz that can go up to 4.4GHz. The chip supports 36 MB of full cache and requires 65 Watts TDP.
In a demonstration using the Cinebench R20 tool rendering a Ray Tracking scene, the 3700X processor was shown to be one-third faster than Intel's competitor Core i7-9700K. AMD claims a high performance of equal single-threaded and up to 28 percent faster multi-threaded performance against the Intel chip.
At the enthusiast level of AMD's processing spectrum is the Ryzen 7 3800X processor, which shares the same eight- and 16-segment performance as the 3700X. Here, the user achieves 4.5 GHz faster acceleration speeds and basic 3.9 GHz speeds with 36 MB of full cache and 105-watt TDP.
When combined with AMD's Navi Radeon RX 5700 - a new GPU based on AMD's 7nm architecture - on an x570 and PCIe Gen 4 motherboard, AMD demonstration showed that the 3800X was able to perform the PCIe test up to 69% better than the Intel Core i9-9900K coupled with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics. The AMD CPU and GPU-powered system managed to maintain 25 frames per second in that test compared to 14 FPS for the Intel and Nvidia systems.
And finally, at the top of the Ryzen family of AMD is a powerful Ryzen 9 processor with 12 cores and 24 threads, designed to compete directly with Intel Core i9-9920X. The Ryzen 9 3900X has a base figure of 3.8GHz that can go up to 4.6GHz in boost. It also comes with 70MB of total cache and operates in a TDP of 105 watts.
In a 3D rendering demonstration using Blender compared to the Intel Core i9-9920X, Ryzen 9 completed the task in 32 seconds versus 38 seconds of competition. AMD claims an improvement of 18% in a direct core-to-core test since the Intel processor also has 12 cores. With Ryzen 9, AMD also pointed out that the AMD solution also uses less power than the Intel part of 165 watts.
All processors will be available from July 7, and prices start at $ 329 for AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, $ 399 for Ryzen 7 3800X and $ 499 for Ryzen 9 3900X. Ryzen 9, as highlighted by Su, costs less than half the $ 1100 sale price of the Intel Core i9-9900X.
The fight between the tech giants, AMD and Intel, is clearly in favor of the first - at least for the moment. It is yet to see what Intell has prepared to compete.
