AMD Screeches Ahead of Intel with Ryzen 9 12-core processors

Ever since the recession of the once great Athlon Architecture, Advanced Micro Devices, (AMD), connoisseurs have been let down time and time again, as their processors continue to be outperformed by their Intel Counterparts. Despite Ryzen’s Accelerated Processing Unit (APU),nestled deep inside of the IHS, the performance of AMD’s Central Processing Unit’s (CPUs) will leave you with a-lot to be desired. Their Intel counterpart, however, have a venerable flagship: The Intel Core i9 9900K. The 9900K has 8 physical cores clocked in at 3.6 GHz(5.0 GHz TURBO), 16 threads, a 22M cache, and just as well supports UHD resolution rendering on it’s onboard graphics.

On July 7th, AMD Released the next generation of Ryzen, Generation 3, slingshotting AMD back into the race for the fastest clocks. The Ryzen 9 3900X APU has a whopping 12 cores, clocked in at 3.8GHz(4.6GHz TURBO), it has a staggering 64M of L3 cache. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, and in benchmarks, AMD has outperformed Intel in rendering, multitasking, and yes, even gaming. The popularity of AMD in search queries, and interest in general for Ryzen and the 3900X has been through the roof, especially when compared to their friends over at Intel.

In addition to this performance gain, AMD managed to keep the price lower than Intel had ever imagined, pricing the new Ryzen 9 at just below $500. However Intel quickly responded by dropping the price of their flagship I9 from $530 to a significantly lower $480, a 10% drop in price.

AMD has rocked the sometimes all but too smooth sailing of the micro electronics industry. Whether or not you are an AMD fan, the accomplishments, and the value really is there with the Ryzen 3 platform. And the Ryzen 9 is going to be my first choice when I start my next build.