AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
Maximum PC|September 2019

AMD’s third-gen Ryzen vies for the CPU throne

Jarred Walton
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

The build-up to AMD’s launch party for its Ryzen 3000 CPUs, aka third-gen Ryzen, aka Zen 2, has been huge. The Ryzen 3000 processors are the first mainstream CPUs to utilize a 7nm manufacturing process, and after flirting with the crown for the first two Ryzen generations, this could be the day AMD claims an outright victory. Will the Ryzen 9 3900X be the best CPU for gaming—and everything else? It’s time to find out.

This story is from the September 2019 edition of Maximum PC.

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