AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT and Ryzen 7 3800XT CPU Review

1. Ryzen 9 3900XT & Ryzen 7 3800XT: Zen 2 Boosted2. All-Core and Boost Operating Frequencies3. Manual Overclocking - 4.6GHz Achieved!4. Testing Methodology5. CPU Tests: Cinebench R20 & Blender6. CPU Tests: 7-Zip Decompression & Compression7. CPU Tests: Handbrake H264 & H2658. Memory Tests: Memory Bandwidth and Latency9. Gaming: Red Dead Redemption 210. Gaming: Shadow of the Tomb Raider11. Gaming: The Division 212. Technical: Power Draw, Efficiency, Temperatures13. Value: Cinebench Performance per £14. Closing Thoughts15. View All Pages

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

We use the DirectX 12 mode, anti-aliasing disabled, and the Highest quality preset.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider tends to reward higher core counts with slightly higher frame rates. As such, we see the 3800XT’s better frequency than the other eight-core Zen 2 chips deliver slightly better performance but without matching the 3900XT.

Intel’s 10^th Gen 8-core and 10-core are, again, quicker in terms of average and 1% low numbers. But the Zen 2 chips deliver close to 140 FPS average across the board, so this victory for Intel will be of more importance to high refresh rate gaming enthusiasts. Gamers with a monitor up to 144Hz are likely to be as happy with the Zen 2 chips as they are with the Intel 10^th Gen alternatives.

Increasing the resolution workload to 1440P sees the margins squeezed heavily. Now, there is very little performance difference between the Zen 2 stack and the Intel competitors are barely any faster.

For 1440P gamers, the Ryzen 3000XT chips are perfectly good gaming solutions, but they are not realistically any better or worse than the Ryzen 3000X alternatives.

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