AMD Reveals 3rd Gen Ryzen 9 3900X: $499, 12-Cores, 4.6GHz With Ryzen 7 And Ryzen 5 Models Too

The wait is over - AMD has shown its cards, revealing the monster 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X, which will cost just $499, plus two eight-core models - the Ryzen 7 3800X and 3700X. From what it claims in terms of performance, the results are that we could be looking at a seismic shift in desktop performance and an end to Intel's reign at the top despite last night's launch of its Core i9-9900KS.

AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su took the stage this morning at Taipei's Computex technology show and revealed three 3rd Gen Ryzen Zen 2 7nm CPUs, which use AMD's 7nm chiplet design. Starting with the Ryzen 9 3900X - this has 12 cores and is so far the flagship of the range, so despite rumors pointing at a 16-core part, it appears that 12 and not 16 cores are the limit for now. It offers 24 threads, uses two Core Chiplet Die's (CCD) to get to 12 cores, sports a massive 70MB cache and can boost up to 4.6GHz. Perhaps the most remarkable feature, though, is that its TDP is only 105W.

Model Cores/Threads TDP (Watts) Boost/Base Freq Total Cache SEP (USD) Availability
Ryzen 9 3900X 12/24 105W 4.6/3.8GHz 70MB $499 July 7, 2019
Ryzen 7 3800X 8/16 105W 4.5/3.9GHz 36MB $399 July 7, 2019
Ryzen 7 3700X 8/16 65W 4.4/3.6GHz 36MB $329 July 7, 2019
Ryzen 5 3600X 6/12 95W 4.4/3.8GHz 35MB $249 July 7, 2019
Ryzen 5 3600 6/12 65W 4.2/3.6GHz 35MB $199 July 7, 2019

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