{"id":309665,"date":"2019-06-11T08:04:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T06:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=309665"},"modified":"2019-06-11T08:06:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T06:06:55","slug":"amd-ryzen-9-3950x-the-ultimate-gaming-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/309665-amd-ryzen-9-3950x-the-ultimate-gaming-processor.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD Ryzen 9 3950X – The ultimate gaming processor"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMD announced<\/strong><\/a> new PC gaming hardware at its E3 2019 event, including a new lineup of powerful third-generation Ryzen desktop processors.<\/p>\n

The company’s new CPUs were headed up by the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, which boasts 16 physical cores and 32 threads.<\/p>\n

The chip features a boost clock speed of up to 4.7GHz, with AMD stating that these capabilities make the Ryzen 3950X the “ultimate desktop process for gaming”.<\/p>\n

“The Ryzen 9 3950X processor now holds the crown in two important dimensions: highest performance for any 16-core processor and highest performance in a mainstream CPU socket,” AMD said.<\/p>\n

Alongside this flagship gaming chip, AMD also announced two new APUs – the Ryzen 3 3200G and Ryzen 5 3400G.<\/p>\n

These processors feature Radeon RX Vega integrated graphics and have TDP of 65W.<\/p>\n

AMD said the integrated graphics on the Ryzen 3400G were capable of delivering smooth gameplay above 30 frames per second at a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080.<\/p>\n

Specifications and pricing<\/h3>\n

Below are the specifications and pricing for AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 processors, including the Ryzen 9 3950X.<\/p>\n

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CPU<\/th>\nCores \/ Threads<\/th>\nBase \/ Boost Clock<\/th>\nGraphics<\/th>\nTDP<\/th>\nPrice<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Ryzen 9 3950X<\/strong><\/td>\n16\/32<\/td>\n3.5GHz\/4.7GHz<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n105W<\/td>\n$749<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ryzen 5 3400G<\/strong><\/td>\n4\/8<\/td>\n3.7GHz\/4.2GHz<\/td>\nRadeon RX Vega 11<\/td>\n65W<\/td>\n$149<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ryzen 3 3200G<\/strong><\/td>\n4\/4<\/td>\n3.6GHz\/4.0GHz<\/td>\nRadeon RX Vega 8<\/td>\n65W<\/td>\n$100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

AMD’s new Ryzen 9 3950X gaming processor will be available in September 2019 and will be priced at $749.<\/p>\n

The Ryzen 5 3400G and Ryzen 3 3200G APUs will be priced at $149 and $100 respectively. There is currently no release date available for these chips.<\/p>\n

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AMD announced new PC gaming hardware at its E3 2019 event, including its new Ryzen 9 3950X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":309667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[577,44937,41972,59463,54185],"class_list":["post-309665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-ryzen-3","tag-ryzen-5","tag-ryzen-9","tag-third-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}