14 PCWorld JULY 2019NEWS
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give budget gamers an
affordable taste of Radeon Vega
AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 APUs don’t step it up the way the new Ryzen 3000 CPUs do, but
they look to still be decent updates. BY GORDON MAH UNGI
f you’re on a Top Ramen diet, the last
thing you’re probably jazzed for is
AMD’s new $750 16-core Ryzen 9
3950X or its $450 Radeon 5700 XT
(go.pcworld.com/navi) graphics card. But
AMD buried some good news for budget
gamers among its massive CPU, GPU, and
motherboard PCIe 4.0 announcement blitz atE3 2019: A pair of affordable new Ryzen
3000-series APUs.
AMD’s APUs blend the company’s Ryzen
processing cores with Radeon Vega graphics
on a single ready-to-game chip.
The Ryzen 3 3200G will feature a quad-
core chip running with a 4GHz boost and
3.6GHz base speeds. For graphics, it will