AMD Ryzen 3900XT, 3800XT, 3600XT Review and Benchmarks - The Choice Is OBVIOUS!

  a few weeks ago I quickly covered twonew AMD announcements the availability of b550 motherboardswell sorta because those boards just seem to be selling up everywhere andthen three new Ryzen CPUs.

 well they're sort of new so there's a Ryzen 9 3900XT the Ryzen 7 3800XT and the Ryzen 5 5 3600XT when we publishthat video a lot of you were expressing concerns about its pricing overallperformance and most importantly what their launch would do to AMD's currentlineup well we've got all three of them right over here and this review is goingto follow our usual course so first I'll walk you through what has changed interms of specs and then go over how the new XT series compared to what's alreadyout there and then finally wrap up with a metric ton of benchmarks also do keepin mind that a lot of the numbers that you're going to be seeing in just a bithave been updated with new numbers and the reason for that is over the last fewmonths there have been some major updates for Windows and someapplications that we use and we're also going to be breaking this review intodifferent segments.

 just so if you want to get to a particular area you can justsimply hover over the timeline now if your devices and support that featurewill make sure you leave timestamps in the description down below so with thatout of the way let's talk about these new XT CPUs right after this what doesit take to experience a compact high performance gaming notebook you wantspecs that can meet the most demanding tasks like a fast CPU up to 32 gigabytesof RAM ultra-fast nvme SSD and r-tx graphics you also want something that'sa lightweight and easy to carry around how about a robust optical mechanicalkeyboard with perky RGB lining and a fast 144 Hertz IPS display .

this is a newxbg senior gaming notebook check it out at the links below and game to theextreme ok so before I get into the juicy details I think it's important forme to set the stage a little bit today actually marks exactly one year sinceZen 2 and Ryzen 3000 series CPU's were launched that's right exactly one yearhas just flown by so over the course of those 365 days AMD has proven that itcan dominate Intel on almost every front that includes even after comet Lake swas announced if anything that CPU lineup showed howmuch ground Intel had to make up for but AMD still can sit on his heels eitherso that got me thinking with all these massive successes a firm lead over thecompetition and Xen 3 which is confirmed to be launched later this yearwhy even bother with the XT series.

 well I have an answer or more like I have anassumption it all starts with andis use of an enhanced seven animatedarchitecture for these new processors basically over the course of last yearthey have been able to fine-tune transistor characteristics to get higherperformance through better frequencies without increasing voltage powerconsumption or heat well those refinements will probably becarried over into z3 so this is a great opportunity for a production test runbefore the updated manufacturing process gets rolled into the next generation ofCPUs technically this should mean less headaches down the road while we getsome new tech to talk about but what kind of advancements are we actuallygonna see right now well like a lot of you said it's pretty underwhelming atleast on paper starting off with the Ryzen 5 3600 XT it gets a hundredmegahertz boost to the single core boosts clonk versus the 3600X.

 the Ryzen 7 3800XT meanwhile gets a bit more generous bump of two hundredmegahertz to it's single thread clock and you'll notice the 3700XT isn'tlisted here that's probably because it's already so close to the 3800X'sperformance that adding an XT version would make a 3800X kind of pointlessthe big boy of this new lineup is the 3900XT and when lined up against the3900X well yeah you only get a hundred megahertz here again.

 now I really needto highlight one very important thing all of those are listed as up to andfrom our experience it does take a little bit of work to get thosefrequencies on a regular basis first of all you need to find the right mojo withyour motherboard settings on our ass rock x5 Sony Taichi that meant leavingeverything to auto while on the MSI x5 70 ace we needed these settings you'llalso need to make sure that windows detects enough idle processor time thatit parks course into a completely idle state in order for that to happen on aregular basis I found you need to disable always-on applications likeAdobe Creative Cloud and Autodesk app we also found an issue withsteam you play an origin requesting CPU cycles that directly impacted Cinebenchsingle core results so once those hoops were jumped through this is what weactually saw while AMD claims the 3900 xt hits 4.7 gigahertz.

 we saw an averagesustained frequency of four point six two gigahertz that's still 50 megahertzhigher than he 39 our next though so it's something I guess but when it comesto peak single thread speed the CPU did indeed hit four point seven fivegigahertz every now and then switching to multi-threaded workloads AMD doesn'tclaim any improvements but when averaged out over the course of a 20-minute myrinthere's a really really small 20 megahertz advantage let's see where thatcomes from since it impacts the behavior of all the xt cpus there were quite afew times throughout the all core test where the cores are consistentlyboosting fifteen to fifty megahertz higher.

 this will probably cause a veryvery narrow advantage for the 3000xt cpus in some applications but not enoughto make a visible difference this pattern repeated itself almostidentically for the 3800XT though it has a slightly larger single core advantageover the 3800X since its weighted boost clock has been increased by 200megahertz the 3600XT is a copy and paste of that too with higher Peaks butvery similar averages compared to the 3600X so with all of that taken intomind there isn't gonna be a huge performance leap over the non xt cpusbut.

 there is a huge price gap between them like a lot of you brought up in thelast video game DS retail partners have already started to lower prices on the3900X 3800X and 3600X so let's check out how they all line up basicallywhat you're gonna see is the XT variants hitting the same prices as theirpredecessors did a year ago the main problem is those reduced prices not withthe 3900X at $420 the 3800X at 320 dollars and you 3600X at just 220dollars meanwhile the 3700X will continue to beat $275 but when you start looking at things paying between 30 and 80 bucksfor .

a few extra megahertz seems like a pretty raw deal I shouldalso mention that the 3900XT and 380 XT don't have coolerswhile the 3600XT includes a rates fire in its box but before I jump into anyconclusions let's head into the benchmarks you can pause here if youwant to read through the complete system specs starting things off with singlethread performance and yeah it looks like there is a small bump when movingfrom the X series to the new 3000XT's it isn't much at only around 5% but it'sthere in this one case things change.

 when moving on to purely multi threadbenchmarks and this is something we'll see pretty much throughout bothsynthetic and real-world tests basically the 3900XT the 3800XT and the 3600XTdon't offer any tangible benefits in CPU intensive applications meanwhile inprograms that are slightly less multi-threaded or used a GPU forsecondary processing the benefits are a bit higher and I mean a bit this is aresult of a higher sustained speeds over the course of each test but honestlythis.

 doesn't amount to much in real world in gaming pretty much all thesemid-level and higher-end CPUs align with one another but if you dive down a bitinto the results the differences in average frame rates between the X andthe XT Series was literally nothing there was a slight bump in 1% lows forthe faster CPUs it wouldn't make a visible impact in gameplay but aftermultiple runs it was there another thing that amy mentioned is the xt seriesshould see more of an advantage in games that are sensitive to frequencies wedidn't see any of that here but maybe it comes down to which titles were usingand the fact that every one of them is set to the highest details powerconsumption showed really minor increases for all these processorsexcept the 3900XT which was a bit high personally i think this is because the3900X.

 we have in the office tends to run really cool and seems to be anoverall more efficient chip compared to some of the others that we've comeacross either way all these numbers are pretty much within the margin of errorwell guys a lot of you mentioned that these refresh processors from AMD seemedpretty underwhelming since they don't offer a huge leap in terms ofperformance but they also cost a lot more than the CPUs that are currently inthe market right now and unfortunately that's the conclusion that we've comebased on what AMD has been bringing to the table over the last year the 3000XTseries just look like a poor value.

 I mean look when you look at the currentlineup the non-XT CPUs are at their lowest price point right now which isamazing it almost feels like AMD was expecting their existing refreshprocessors to be able to achieve higher sustained speeds but that just didn'thappen so they were sort of forced to launch them anyway as for thecompetition against the comet Lake lineupwell I'm just gonna voice in caution for AMD in general Ryzen 3000 processors offer a phenomenal value when compared to anything in team Blueslineup but these new CPUs almost wipe out any pricing advantage I mean surethe XT is still win by a longshot in many productivity applications and yetmany Intel CPUs tend to be an overall better choice for gaming even if theyare attached to an outdated platform a few price cuts for Intel could reallyruin the XT series at least in gaming so here's the deal if you're in the marketfor a new AMD CPU skip the XT series because the small benefits which againin terms of performance doesn't seem to be justifiable considering how expensivethey are compared to the current rise in lineup I would save that money and justinvest that into a better GPU or storage so on that note thank you so much forwatching and I'll talk to you guys in the next one