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Review on AMD Ryzen 3900X 24 Thread Processor by Adam Czajkowski ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Valuable purchase, nothing but pluses!

The processor was taken for various tasks - video rendering in AdobePrimere, photo processing in Lightroom, running virtual machines, programming. As a result, it is NOT possible to load the processor by 80-100%, well, only if you run benchmarks. AdobePrimere uses only half of the cores for rendering, totaling 50% of the load, the remaining 50% rest. Yes, you can watch YouTube, use the browser at the time of rendering, but this does not change the picture much - well, 60% will be the load on the processor. Lightroom also cannot load the processor more than half, however, at 50% load of the ryzen 3900x, photo processing is much faster than at 80-100% of the ryzen 2600. This is very noticeable. Therefore, if you do not have a clear plan for each core of the 12 cores of this monster - better look towards 8-core processors, such as 3700-3800. They are cheaper, cooler easier and will be less idle. If I had a choice again - I was taking the ryzen 3700. For cooling - I have a thermalright ARO-M14O. When rendering, video, games - the temperature above 70 practically does not rise. However, it is worth running a benchmark - the temperature instantly flies up to 90 degrees and even higher. Neither a more powerful fan, nor an additional fan, nor a more powerful tower saves (for some, even water does not help). But then again, this is just on benchmarks. In normal operation, loading it at 100% for at least a couple of minutes is unrealistic, and therefore, in normal operation, the temperatures are quite acceptable. In general - think again, do you really need a 12-core percent? Can your programs load all 12 cores and all 24 threads? Most programs barely master 2/4 of the stream, and even 24 - almost no one, except for benchmarks. motherboard asrock x470 master sli, quite normally pulls 3900x. The processor works completely in stock, it makes no sense to overclock, since it has already been overclocked to the maximum at the factory. Yes, and there is no point in overclocking - there is nothing to load it with.

Pros
  • Fast, 12 cores Works out of the box Cheaper than intell with similar performance in multithreading
Cons
  • Overperformance and multithreading (see comment) Sharp jumps in temperature 4.6 in Boost is more marketing than reality, my copy in stock (without overclocking and modifications) most often does not rise above 4.2 GHz at all.