AMD Ryzen 7 3700X review: The long-awaited Core i7 killer?
Earlier this week, I put together a list of what I think are the best gaming CPUs you can buy today. At the top end of the scale was Intel’s Core i7-9700K, a £350 / $365 processor that, at least in my admittedly rather limited, non-water-cooled PC, was easily the fastest CPU for gaming that didn’t cost an absolute fortune *cough*Intel Core i9-9900K, I’m looking at you*cough*.
The new Ryzen 7 3700X is AMD‘s answer to this mighty Intel chip – and on paper, it sounds very impressive indeed. Built using a 7nm manufacturing process and AMD’s new Zen 2 CPU architecture, this eight-core, sixteen-thread Ryzen 3000 processor also supports the super-fast PCIe 4.0 standard, which, when combined with a compatible motherboard (such as AMD’s new X570 chipset family), massively increases the amount of bandwidth available to your PC components. But is it enough to wrench away the Core i7-9700K’s best gaming CPU crown? Here’s wot I think.