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

The Division 2

We run the game with quality set to Ultra, VSync disabled, and DX12 mode.

The Division 2 likes frequency, so the 3800XT and overclocked 3900XT both deliver very marginally higher frame rates at 1080P. Realistically, this is basically a performance tie between the stock-clocked Zen 2 chips, once again.

Intel’s competitors are faster on average, but the performance increase is realistically not going to be noticeable.

1440P shows basically identical behaviour to 1080P. All of the Zen 2 chips show very similar performance, accounting for run-to-run variances in the frame rates. Intel’s 10^th Gen Core chips show basically no noticeable increase in performance.

Gaming Summary:

The Ryzen 3000XT processors are fractionally quicker or, more often, the same performance as the original Zen 2 Ryzen 3000X parts. You will need particularly frequency sensitive games with a high-end GPU to notice the performance differences.

Intel’s chips still maintain their performance lead in gaming, but this is title dependent as to whether it is important. Red Dead Redemption 2, for example, shows a good and worthwhile performance improvement for Intel's 10^th Gen even versus Ryzen 3000XT. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a less useful performance improvement when going past the Ryzen 3000XT options. The Division 2 is basically the same performance between Intel and AMD offerings.

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