![]() ![]() Finally, sitting at the top of the 3rd-gen Ryzen family is the mighty 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 3950X, which a year on is still completely unchallenged as the most powerful mainstream desktop processor, right now sitting at $700. The next step up, the Ryzen 9 3900X has also been discounted substantially, dropping from $500 at launch to just $420, for the first mainstream desktop CPU to offer 12-cores / 24-threads. The more premium 3800X has also dropped from $400 down to $300, but given it offers very little over the 3700X, we still recommend you pocket the $40 and put it towards a more meaningful upgrade. The R5 3600 has been our best value, best all-rounder pick for a year now and we're not alone in that choice.Īnother very popular option amongst shoppers is the Ryzen 7 3700X, and today it's incredible value at just $260 for an 8-core, 16-thread processor of this quality. The ever popular Ryis a great buy at the $200 MSRP, and even better at $170, a price it's been trending at for months now. However, for general consumers looking at buying a mainstream AM4 processor, there's primarily 5 models that we recommend - though parts such as the 3100, 3600X, 3800X and even the new XT variants maybe worth buying if available at the right price - for simplicity sake, we'll be focusing on the 5 top models we recommend the most.įor budget shoppers there's the Ryzen 3 3300X (when it's in stock). For example, when we reviewed the latest budget Ryzen 3 processors, none of the Ryzen 9 models were included, as $500+ parts aren't usually relevant when reviewing a $120 CPU, so we opt to remove some products in an effort to declutter the graphs.īelieve it or not, there's a total of 20 third-gen Ryzen processors if you include OEM parts and the drool-inducing Threadripper models. It's rare that we feature all of these in a single article, let alone standing on its own. This feature will serve as a quick and easy reference for those wanting to compare the Ryzen 3, 5, 7 and 9 series processors. Today's review will look at AMD's third-gen Ryzen processors, a sort of family overview if you will.
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