AMD launches Ryzen 9: 12-core CPU, PCIe 4.0, for $ 499

At Computex 2019, AMD has just introduced the new generation Ryzen 3000 CPU, the world's first 7nm CPU for the desktop. Ryzen 3000 series uses Zen 2 architecture, with increased caching to help increase performance but reduce power consumption.

The most prominent is the Ryzen 9 3900X CPU, the most powerful CPU in the new series, with 12 cores, 24 threads and the price is only 499USD, less than half of the 12-core Intel i9-9920X ($ 1,189). Ryzen 9 3900X is up to 16% faster when rendering via Blender software and consumes only 105W less than 165W of Intel CPU.

Ryzen 9 3900X has a 3.8Ghz clock that can boost to 4.6GHz, 70MB cache and 105W TDP.

Ryzen 7 3800X has 8 cores and 16 streams, speeds of 3.9 GHz / 4.5 GHz, 36MB cache, 105W TDP, costing 399 USD.

Ryzen 7 3700X has 8 cores, TDP 65W with 15% speed improvement in single-threaded Cinebench R20 test and 18% faster while multithreading. The selling price is 329USD.

Ryzen 5 3000 series has 6 cores and 12 lines, with two models of Ryzen 5 3600 (3.6GHz clock, up to 4.2GHz, 65W TDP and also 35MB cache) and Ryzen 5 3600X (3.8GHz clock can boost to 4.4Ghz and 95TW TDP, cache 35MB).

The 3rd generation Ryzen CPU will be sold by AMD from July 7.