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This is only a handful of workloads, as well we’re sure some others might flex the 5950X’s architectural improvements better. We’d wager that the generational gains seen in workstation workloads isn’t quite as dramatic from Zen 2 to Zen 3 as it was from Zen to Zen 2, but any improvement on top of what was already great performance (and market-leading in some cases) is still really welcomed.

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While this article focuses around gaming, we know that there are many readers who come here today expecting to see some workstation performance, so we wanted to deliver some results for the time-being, and as mentioned above, we’ll expand with a full article next week. That EFI will also introduce access to the new Smart Access Memory (resizable bar) feature, although that’s something we can’t test until AMD releases its new Radeons later this month.

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If so, you should see an EFI update from your board vendor. These new Zen 3 CPUs will work in current motherboards, as long as those motherboards have either an X570 or B550 chipset. Or can it?! That’s what we’ll find out here.īefore going further, here’s a quick refresher of AMD’s current lineup as of today’s launch: While the previous Zen processors were great for most purposes, those who wanted super-high frame rates at lower resolutions found themselves sticking with Intel, and Intel has made it obvious through its marketing that a chip like the 10900K can’t be beat. The biggest reason to explore gaming is that it’s one of the biggest catch-ups AMD claims to have made. We will have some normal software benchmarks below, but our full look will come next week after we can get more test scripts updated and more CPUs tested. We’d normally greet a new AMD Zen launch with a plethora of workstation benchmarks, but for a couple of reasons, we’re focusing this article largely around gaming performance instead. Soon, AMD is going to also be launching its new ‘Big Navi’ Radeons, so overall, we definitely have our benchmarking work cut out for us this fall.

NVIDIA just last week launched its third Ampere-based GeForce in a month-and-a-half, and we’re of course seeing AMD release its first Zen 3-based processors today.

It’s proving to be an incredibly busy time for PC hardware releases.