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slightly favors the Core i9 but only by about 2
percent. The Ryzen 7 2700X can’t say the
same as it trails by the familiar amount we’re
used to with older Ryzen CPUs against Core.
If you’re here to see the Ryzen 9 3900X leave
the Core i9-9900K eating its dust in gaming
benchmarks, prepare to be disappointed. For
the most part, in all of the games we tested, the
Ryzen 9 3900X generally trailed by single-digit
ranges of 1 percent to 7 percent in most games
using that wicked GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE.
Ryzen fans shouldn’t take that as a failure.
In many ways, we see it as a win for Team Red.
Remember: The two previous generations ofRyzens have trailed Core i7 and Core i9 by
double digits in the vast majority of games at
1080p resolution. To see the Ryzen 9 close to
striking distance in just about every game we
ran is a major upgrade.
In Far Cry 5, we actually saw a fairly big gap
of about 15 percent between the Ryzen 9 and
Core i9. We would have explored this further
but we have to blame the copy protection
system Ubisoft employs. Apparently it gave up
on us after we had run it too many times for it to
be able to tell we legally obtained it.
That graphic above might give you a
heartache, but most of the games looked likeRyzen 9 3900x Zen 2 (12/24)Core i9-9900K Cofee
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(8/16)Rainbox Six Siege
19x10 Ultra Setting, GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (Fps)LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE336354265Rainbow Six Siege favors the Core i9 as well, but not by much.Ryzen 9 3900X Zen 2 (12/24)Core i9-9900K Cofee
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Ryzen 7 2700X Zen+
(8/16)Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
19x10 Ultra, DX12, GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE (Fps)LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE112121Deus Ex: Mankind United also broke on us.85