PC World - USA (2020-12)

DECEMBER 2020 PCWorld 33

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any will see November 5,

2020, as a historic day in

computing power. With its

new Ryzen 5000 desktop

CPUs, AMD has finally knocked Intel to the floor,

and is raising its boxing gloves in victory as the

flash bulbs pop and the ref declares a winner.

The headline takeaway: Ryzen 9 5900X and

Ryzen 9 5950X have trounced Intel’s Core i9.

The Ryzen 5000 chips using AMD’s Zen 3

cores are arguably the best consumer desktop

CPUs the world has ever seen. Ryzen 5000

simply gives no quarter to its Intel arch-nemesis

in any single task. Heavy lifting multi-core work?

AMD. Light single-threaded tasks? AMD.

Gaming? AMD. PCIe 4.0? AMD. No need to

throw away your existing motherboard? AMD.

The $800 Ryzen 9 5950X and $550 Ryzen

IMAGE: GORDON MAH UNG

Reviews & Ratings

TESTED IN PCWORLD LABS

WE PUT HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

THROUGH RIGOROUS TESTING

Ryzen 5000: The best consumer

CPU we’ve ever seen

AMD’s historically good Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X desktop CPUs have

trounced Intel’s Core i9. BY GORDON MAH UNG