AMD has officially announced the new Ryzen 3000XT series of processors. These new chips are refreshed chips of their popular 7nm desktop processors and offer a higher boost clock than the regular versions.
The new chips feature the refreshed Zen 2 architecture that the Ryzen 3000 series is built on. The announcement revealed three new chips, which included the Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT, and Ryzen 5 3600XT. These are built on a more refined 7nm process, which results in slightly higher performance than the base variant. Despite having slightly higher boost clocks, the overall TDP of these CPUs have remained the same.
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Furthermore, the primary focus of these chips was to improve single threaded performance, which is an area their competition, Intel, generally win at. According to official notes, the Ryzen 9 3900XT offers 4 percent higher performance than the Team Blue’s counterpart, Intel Core i9-10900K. Interestingly, AMD has also announced that the new processors will also be offered at the same retail price as the non-XT chips.
Notably, only the Ryzen 5 3600XT is bundled with a Wraith air cooler, since the company recommends water cooling for both the Ryzen 9 3900XT and Ryzen 7 3700XT. The high end Ryzen 9 3900XT only boasts a 100MHz higher boost clock, which is also reflected with the Ryzen 5 3600XT. On the other hand, the Ryzen 7 3800XT arrives with a 200MHz higher boost clock than the non-XT versions. So while these are great offerings, they aren’t exactly ground breaking improvements over the pre-existing lineup.
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