Zen2 facelift! The new Ryzen 3000 series CPUs have been on the market for exactly one year. With small improvements, AMD has now introduced three XT models of Ryzen processors and we took a closer look at the AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT. Whether it’s worth buying and what strengths and weaknesses the 8-core offers, you can find out in this review.
We have known the Zen2 architecture for almost exactly one year now. The advantages of the chipset design are obvious and before Zen3 replaces Zen2 as its successor, AMD has introduced three new processors based on the Zen2 architecture. The flagship, the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, remains the same. The 12-, 8-, and 6-core processors however have undergone various clock speed modifications. In the naming scheme, the new Ryzen models are given an XT, indicating the Refresh-CPUs.
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