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testbed until just before the launch here), which means that in some cases, the
Ryzen 9 3900X’s performance could be slightly better than shown above. AMD
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like Rocket League.
A PEEK AT GAMING PERFORMANCE
The Ryzen 9 3900X will appeal to content creators relying on heavily
multithreaded software as well as to
folks building a tricked-out gaming
desktop. So we ran a host of games—
cutting-edge and older ones—to see
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test, a simulation that taxes a chip’s
graphics capabilities. (3DMark reports
a proprietary score rather than the
frames per second from the
benchmarks in the individual games.)
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that to show performance at the
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CPU comes more into play. Memory
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additional context.