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Will AMD’s 16 cores of goodness erase Intel’s gaming advantage? Only tests will tell.
BY GORDON MAH UNGW
ith the debut of AMD’s
16-core Ryzen 9 3950X,
Intel’s slim lead in gaming
CPUs could disappear.
Announced recently by AMD CEO Lisa Su at
her keynote at E3, the company also claims
that its new stack of 7nm-based Ryzen 3000
chips are competitive with Intel’s higher-
clocked CPUs in games, and dominant inmulti-tasking chores.
The big news, of course, was the long-
awaited, much-whispered Ryzen 9 3950X.
During her keynote, Su said the CPU, which
will be available in September, features a
boost clock of 4.7GHz with a base clock of
3.5GHz. The chip will sell for $749.
Besides a massive cache of 72MB, not
much else was said about the Ryzen 9 3950X.IMAGE: AMD