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You’ll only need to buy a cutting-edge X570 board if you want the future-proofing benefits of PCIe 4.0. (See our guide to all of the X570 motherboards we saw at Computex 2019.) Otherwise, many of the dozens of AM4-compatible X470 and X370 motherboards will work, along with certain other AMD chipsets under AM4. That is now a key difference between the latest Core i7 CPUs and all Ryzen 7s. Ryzen X is a great CPU overall, and it’s arguably the sensible choice for most users.
Thanks to the extra threads available via SMT, the 3700X is about 18 percent faster than the 9700K in multithreaded workloads. Include all of the benchmarks and it’s about a 7 percent lead for AMD overall—and at a lower price, since you’d still need an aftermarket cooler with the 9700K. All of the benchmarks that follow were done running the latest Windows 10 May 2019 update, with updated drivers and BIOS firmware. Unlike some other sites (and I’m not faulting their testing protocols. It’s just not how I do things), all CPUs are tested with high speed DDR CL14 memory, with XMP memory profiles enabled.
Although the 3700x has more cores, the 5600x has a faster render speed and more performance in Premier pro and most of the adobe suite products. The Ryzen X, meanwhile, also punched well above its weight and offering similar performance to the Core i9-9900K in Adobe Premiere Pro, at least in my 4K video export, is rather damning for Intel given the price difference. Ultimately, what this all boils down to is for everything content creation/multi-threaded, AMD is now absolutely dominant except if you have piles of cash to spend on an Intel Core i9-9980XE and rendering/exporting time is money.
As far as connectivity goes, the Asus AM4 TUF Gaming X570 boasts the typical 8 SATA ports, two M.2 slots for fast SSDs and two PCIe 4.0 x16 slots for your graphics cards. It also features Wi-Fi right out of the box, a great addition not typically found on X570 motherboards in this price range. Of course, if you’re a performance hound, most of the time you will be playing in situations where you are limited by your GPU’s power. After all, why buy a high-end video card then run it at a low resolution, versus pushing it to the top of its capabilities? The differences here mainly matter to extremely competitive gamers who strive to eke out every last frame from their PCs with a high-end card at lower resolutions, and use a high-refresh-rate monitor to view games at 150fps or 200fps.
Please check these components and perform temperature tests to see if you experience overheating with the Ryzen X. Altogether, the Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming is the best option available for gamers on budget. It offers incredible value when compared to other mid-range motherboards gtx 1080 8gb in its class, and blows them out of the water with its overclocking prowess. You will definitely find a lot to love with this board, especially since there really isn’t much to dislike. The only real downside is the price, which is a bit higher than you would expect.
Additionally, it only offers two DIMM slots, so gamers and folks with higher memory requirements will be slightly disappointed. However, the board supports memory speeds up to respectable 4133MHz. Anyone looking at building an AMD based PC will find a lot to like with the Ryzen X. It’s basically as fast as the more expensive third gen Ryzen parts when it comes to gaming, and certainly fast enough for most other tasks. It’s also about 10 percent faster than the previous generation Ryzen X in gaming performance, and 15 percent faster overall. And it might improve even a bit more if AMD and its partners ever get the firmware and turbo stuff sorted out. With Ryzen 3rd Generation, as the CPU cores are on their own chiplets, AMD was able to pack way more L2 and L3 cache into the Ryzen X – with 4MB and 32MB, respectively.
Our testbed did not have the Windows 10 May update installed during testing, which means that in some cases, the Ryzen X’s performance could be slightly better than shown above. The Ryzen X is at the low end of prosumer CPUs, if you are looking to handle complex content-creation workflows, and it’s more than capable in a pinch. For example, it was only about a minute slower to encode a 12-minute 4K video to 1080p using the gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb Handbrake app than the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X, a monster 16-core CPU that generally sells for well more than twice the price of the 3700X. It was also significantly faster on this test than the Core i7-8700K , and nearly as fast as the much more expensive ($499, at this writing) Core i9-9900K. Although many modern complex apps are designed to run on multiple cores, single-core performance is nevertheless still important.
Besides that, the quality, performance and design are the best-in-class. You’ll also love the Game Boost knob that juices your machines performance gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb when the situation calls for it. Keeping it cool won’t be an issue either, and the network connectivity is unmatched in its class.