PC World - USA (2020-12)

48 PCWorld DECEMBER 2020

REVIEWS AMD RYZEN 5000

on each CPU. This gives us an idea of how a

CPU might perform on a light load to a

medium load, as well as a load that uses all of

the cores.

To help put Zen 3 in perspective though,

here’s one of the first times we did that, with

the 8-core Ryzen 7 2700X in 2018 based on

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Percent Performance

Increase

Ryzen 9 5900X (12/24) versus Core

i9-10900K (10/20)

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48

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46

55

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39

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51

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42

52

Cinebench R15 Percent

Performance Increase

Ryzen 9 5950X (16/32) versus Core

i9-10900K (10/20)

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