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much you need lots of cores and threads at your command. The Ryzen 9 3900X
has plenty of advantages here.
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Intel consumer chips that are currently on the market are made on 14nm or
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necessarily improve clock speeds, though. The Ryzen 9 3900X’s base clock is
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the highest-end AM4 chip before the current generation rolled out.)
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scenes improvements that boost the Ryzen 9 3900X’s appeal. Some of these
involve hardware changes, including double the bandwidth of the bus that
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The Ryzen 9 3900X
features cutting-
edge hardware
including double bus
bandwidth allowing
intra-CPU
communication
within the AMD chip.