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Even with a tight budget, you can put together a computer that displays games in Full HD smoothly. You don’t have to save on RAM or SSD.

Construction proposal 2020: Inexpensive gamer PC for Full HD enjoyment Fleet SSD, lots of RAM The Gamer Budget The installation Finale and fine-tuning Item in c’t 24 / 2020 read For PC buyers on a tight budget, 2020 is a good year. Not only that storage prices are falling steadily. There are finally new processors and graphics cards in the entry-level segment that allow gaming in Full HD (1920 × 1080) at high Enable detail level without annoying stuttering.

One of these new releases is the Radeon RX 5500 XT from AMD’s first generation of navigation systems. It delivers roughly the performance of an RX 590, but goes to work much more efficiently. With 8 GB it has more memory reserves than Nvidia’s equally fast GeForce GTX 1660 with 6 GB. However, you have to do without hardware-accelerated ray tracing effects in this price range. We chose the round 200 Euro expensive Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 2020 XT, which is also under full 3D use Remains whisper-quiet as long as you operate the card in quiet mode. All you have to do is push the small slide switch on the edge in the direction of the connection strip.

With the processor, we initially had a lot more difficulties. According to our article on core scaling in 3D games, it was clear that it had to be a quad-core CPU with SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading, called Hyper-Threading at Intel). Whether it should come from AMD or Intel was hotly debated because the manufacturers supply equivalent CPUs. AMD has the edge in application performance and can use the more modern B 94 – Throw in the chipset with support for PCIe 4.0. It also supports upcoming Zen 3 processors, which promise another performance boost, especially in games. Boards with the cheaper, but limited to PCIe 3.0 A 200 – When we put the systems together, chipsets were just as expensive as the B 550 he, which is why we did not consider them.

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Preface Last Friday, we posted a questionnaire about HWI attendees’ upgrade plans when it comes to processors. We received almost 2. 800 responses, and the relevant news item received ample 300 replied times – enough to discuss!

In a little over two weeks, AMD’s Ryzen 5000 chips are hitting the (digital) shelves, and the red camp has big promises for its new Zen 3 models. On the side of Intel, Rocket Lake is under construction, but it is expected that it will take until February-March 2021 before we see those CPUs. The main question we had was: Are you convinced by what AMD has shown, and will Ryzen 5000 the next processor series to settle into your system?

The majority take the leap to Zen 3 For 63, 5 percent of the participants answered that question ‘yes’. Of course, this survey was conducted before the chips are actually on the market, and – possibly more importantly – the independent tests and reviews have not yet arrived. In addition, the title and format of the questionnaire naturally allows for some self-selection as far as participants are concerned, so while the results give a nice indication of the market, they are probably not fully representative. On the following pages we will further elaborate on the background information that we have collected with the questions.

After the two upper-class models Ryzen 9 5950 X and Ryzen 9 5900 X are also the two cheaper processors Ryzen 7 5800 X and Ryzen 5 5600 X arrived in our editorial office. They use the same Zen 3 architecture (code name Vermeer) and fit into AM4 motherboards, but are cheaper with eight or six cores. We tested the newcomers in their first 3D games and ran the Cinebench R render benchmark 20 hunted.

For PC gamers, the Ryzen 5 5000 X interesting: Thanks to increased computing power per cycle (Instructions per Cycle, IPC) it shows everyone 3000 he predecessors the taillights, appeals to most games -Engines with 12 Threads already out.

Due to similar prices, a comparison to the eight-core Ryzen 7 is possible 3700 X an: In the shooter “Metro: Exodus” the Ryzen 5 is 5600 X about 36 Percent faster in the action adventure “Rise of the Tomb Raider” 35 percent and in the shooter “Far Cry 5” 27 percent. The only exception: the badly scaling “Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey” with 6 percent higher frame rate.

Game benchmarks, measured under Windows 10 (2004), 16 GByte RAM (according to specification) and GeForce RTX 3080 (456. 71 WHQL) Game Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey Metro: Exodu s Shadow of the Tomb Raider Far Cry 5 Settings DX 11, Full HD, High DX 12, Full HD, Normal DX 12, Full HD, High, SMAA, 16 x AF DX 11, Full HD, High, SMAA Ryzen 9 5900 X 126 fps 195 fps 189 fps 179 fps Ryzen 7 5800 X 124 fps 196 fps 179 fps 162 fps Ryzen 5 5600 X 119 fps 191 fps 178 fps 158 fps Core i9 – 10900 K 127 fps 186 fps 175 fps 164 fps Ryzen 9 3900 X 120 fps 143 fps 136 fps 131 fps Ryzen 7 3700 X 112 fps 140 fps 132 fps 124 fps Ryzen 5 3600 105 fps 137 fps 128 fps 123 fps The Ryzen 9 5900 X can move a bit away from the Ryzen 7 in games thanks to higher clock frequencies 5800 X and Ryzen 5 5600 X submit the additional CPU cores only bring it a noticeable advantage in applications.

More performance per CPU core In the multith reading test of the Cinebench R render benchmark 20 the Ryzen 5 reaches 5600 X 4386 Points, the Ryzen 7 3700 X 4910 Points. Cinebench scales well with CPU cores and clock frequencies and thus shows that increased performance per core means the lower number of CPU cores (8 vs. 6, – 27 percent). In the single-threading benchmark, the six-core just manages to exceed the 600 he brand and thus leaves all 3000 he Ryzen and Intel 10. Core i generation behind.

Benchmark Cinebench R 20 mode single threading Multithreading Ryzen 9 5900 X 639 8639 Ryzen 7 5800 X 627 6024 Ryzen 5 5600 X 601 4386 Core i9 – 10900 K 537 6384 Ryzen 9 3900 X 534 7372 Ryzen 7 3700 X 513 4910 Intel has meanwhile too Little to laugh about in the middle class . In 3D games, the Ryzen 5 takes it 5000 X even with the fastest gen – 10 – Model Core i9 – 10900Purchase. The opponents Core i5 – 10600 K and Core i7- 10700 K are 400 to 500 MHz slower than the Core i9.

Ryzen 7 5800 X: expensive and hot During Ryzen 5 5000 X contains a purchase recommendation, it looks for the Ryzen 7 5800 X worse. In 3D games it is only slightly faster than the Ryzen 5 5600 X, costs with 450 Euro but 50 percent more. If you want to have additional CPU cores, you can go directly to the 12 – Kerner Ryzen 9 5900 X for 550 Euros grab – provided the processors are available.

In addition, the Ryzen 7 5800 X difficult to cool at the factory because it is a Thermal Design Power (TDP) from 90 instead of 65 Watt like the Ryzen 5 5600 X has. In practice this means: He may up to 142 instead of 88 Watt record (from AMD within Package Power Tracking so provided). In the case of the eight-core, all the waste heat is concentrated on the I / O die and a single chiplet, which limits the heat transfer to the cooler. The two Ryzen 9 processors have the same TDP, but an additional CPU chiplet.

Even with compact water cooling including 280 – mm radiator – here a NZXT X 63 – the CPU temperature rises up to 90 degrees Celsius, for example in Cinebench R 20. This in turn limits the boost.

Under high load, the Ryzen 7 reaches 5800 X even with a good cooler 90 ° C.

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Users can set the TDP level in the Ryzen Master Tool themselves to 65 Watt (88 Watt PPT) to improve temperatures. According to AMD’s Director of Technical Marketing Robert Hallock, new undervolting functions will also come in the future. One 3700 X successor with 65 Watt TDP has not been announced by the chip manufacturer.

Purchase recommendation For players the Ryzen 5 contains 5600 X a clear purchase recommendation . It is the cheapest model from AMDs so far 5000 series, but does not have to hide from the more expensive processors in 3D titles. Compared to Intel’s Core-i 8639 generation AMD’s six-core can even compete with the fastest models.

If you are looking for a pure gaming CPU, you can safely go to the Ryzen 5 5600 X grab. The surcharge for Ryzen 7 5800 X is better off with the graphics card – the latter is faster than the processor in most games anyway. Users, for whom money plays a subordinate role and who do not want to compromise, use the Ryzen 9 5900 X.

AMD continues to sell for tighter budgets 3000 models like the Ryzen 5 3600. The latter costs just once 180 Euro and thanks to the very good price-performance ratio is part of the basic configuration of our optimal PC 2021.

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Die shots of AMD’s all-new 5000 series CPUs have been taken by news outlet Hardwareluxx from one of its community members who had the courage to destroy a shiny new Ryzen 5 5600X for the sole purpose of seeing exactly what Zen 3 looks like under the hood.

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You’ll notice the destruction when the enthusiast de-lidded the processor, but there are some more interesting pictures in the album. Looking at the pictures, you can see both the I/O Die (IOD) and the Core Compute Die (CCD) that houses the eight Zen 3 cores on the Ryzen 5 5600X (two of them are disabled to make a six-core chip).

We can also see the mounting pads next to the CCD for a second CCD, which would be installed for a Ryzen 9 chip. In the closeup shots, you can see some of the CPU cores themselves and the L3 cache in the middle of the CCD. Moving over to the IOD, you can see all the components that make up that unit, as well.

If you are unfamiliar with 3rd- and 4th-gen Ryzen architectures, they work on a multi-die based system. The cores and cache are housed in their own dies called CCDs, while the memory, I/O, and communication between CCDs (via the Infinity Fabric) is handled by the I/O Die. This allows AMD to use different nodes for different dies, which is more efficient for manufacturing CPUs. Specifically, the I/O die is on TSMC’s older 12nm process, while the CCDs use the 7nm node from TSMC. The bigger 12nm I/O die is much cheaper to produce.

It’s cool to see real shots of the new Ryzen 5000 series CCDs and I/O die, not just animated slides from AMD, even if a Ryzen 5 5600X had to be sacrificed in the process.

The term Scalper-Bots may not be too familiar to many PC users in this country, but will be used in Future, as long as manufacturers and trading partners do nothing, will certainly gain more and more awareness. So-called scalper bots have so far mainly been used to buy event tickets online and use automated methods and scripts to secure large quantities of tickets and complete the purchase process in a fraction of a second. The purchased tickets are then resold with high profits, so many honest customers are left behind and in many cases even pay twice as much.

Scalping is a well-known technique that has so far mainly been used in Ticketing industry and was most lucrative there. Since well-known manufacturers have presented their products in large shows and also stylized and praised them via social media, more and more resellers have sensed their chance for maximum profits and are now increasingly using bot programs when purchasing on the days of publication in the PC hardware sector.

Especially in the US, scalping bots and overpriced resales are at work and become part of a new reality when it comes to the introduction of new PC hardware. The best-known example is NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 series where entire stocks are sucked up within minutes using the bounce alert technology and short Time later they were resold at double the price.

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The same fate now befell AMD’s new Zen 3 processor generation. Bots used by resellers have farmed the stocks of Ryzen 2017 CPUs with the help of highly developed scalping services, only to get the auctioned goods quickly at exorbitantly expensive prices to be offered for resale on eBay. A Ryzen 9 – 5950 X-CPU worth 800 US -Dollars are offered here for example at a price of 1 30 US dollars and sometimes even more. )

In this country, too, the same picture is currently emerging, albeit not as drastically. Therefore, ASUS is now urgently warning that the first stocks of the hotly anticipated Radeon RX – 6800 – and RX – 6900 – Graphics cards may not reach all real private individuals or end customers. In October, AMD issued guidelines to its trading partners to prevent possible scalping. This calls for measures such as real-time bot detection, complex CAPTCHA implementations (math, images, etc.) and a queue-based reservation system to ensure sales to end users.

New processors are also always an opportunity for new die-shots of the silicon chips. Our community member OC_Burner also grabbed a Ryzen 5 X, beheaded it and tried it under the take a look at the first protective layers. However, this time the procedure did not go quite as planned, because when the heat spreader was removed, the indium solder between the chips and the heat spreader was probably not soft enough and tore off part of the CCD with it.

The result looked like this:

But the work can still be used because the important areas of the chips are easy to see. In the meantime, the sizes of the two chips are also known: The IOD comes on 125 mm², has 2, 11 Billion transistors and will be in 12 nm manufactured by GlobalFoundries. The CCD with the eight cores comes on 45, 7 mm², consists of 4, 15 Billions of transistors and comes off the conveyor belt at TSMC in 7 nm. The CCD is slightly larger in terms of dimensions and the number of transistors than its predecessor Matisse based on Zen 2.

Under infrared light, silicon is partially transparent and the following images were created:

The larger IOP can be seen on the left. At the top right the CCD with its eight Zen 3 cores. Directly below that, the space and also the necessary contact surfaces and conductor tracks can be seen to accommodate a second CCD, as is the case for the Ryzen 9 5900 X and Ryzen 9 5950 X is the case. There are also the first analyzes based on the new chip shots. The CCDs with Zen-2 and Zen-3 cores are largely similar. The new L3 cache structure can be clearly seen, as it is only available as 32 MB cache is available to all eight cores. The Micro-Op-, L1- and L2-Cache are largely untouched and have been completely repositioned.

In the coming days, OC_Burner will take photos of the chips under different wavelengths or light from different Publish directions and angles. These will surely produce chic desktop backgrounds again. You can find all pictures in the Flickr photo stream.

At this point the reference to the test of the Ryzen 9 5900 X and Ryzen 5 5600 X and the update to Ryzen 9 5950 X and Ryzen 7 5600 X.

by Antonio Delgado 6 hours ago …

One of the features for the new AMD Ryzen 5000 can work is to do it together with a board with a series chipset 500, although after some anger on the part of the users, promised an update in the series 400 so they can work with newer AMD based processors in Zen 3, but recently a user has managed to run nothing more and nothing less than an AMD Ryzen 5950 on a board with a series chipset 300 .

The overclock.net forum user who calls himself Brko has commented that an acquaintance of his has achieved run a AMD Ryzen 5000 series on a board Gigabyte with X chipset 370 , the board has a new beta BIOS and an AGESA update which would support this type of processors that were not supported , although unfortunately we have not seen some images of this as we commented.

Yes that we have seen images of another user in chiphell running a Ryzen 9 5900 X together with 16 GB of DDR4 RAM on a board with chipset A 320 also with an AGESA update and a beta BIOS for this logic board. Remember that will require a BIOS update with AGESA 1.1.0.0 to make these processors work.

In this way We see how it is possible for users to use the plates of the series 300 with the newer AMD processors , so manufacturers should release these updates in a future so as not to limit these boards to the use of older CPUs.

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The rise in CPU performance that we have seen from mainstream, dual-channel optimised processors in the current generations has paved the way for higher capacity two-stick RAM kits. Offering 64GB of DDR4 capacity via a pair of 32GB DIMMs, Patriot’s Viper Steel kit sports a 3600MHz rated frequency with CL18 timings.

Designed with a no-nonsense, non-RGB style in mind, Patriot looks to be appealing to users who simply want a high-capacity memory kit without paying additional fees for unnecessary bells and whistles.

The 45mm-tall Viper Steel modules feature a gunmetal grey aluminium heatspreader designed to cool the double-sided RAM PCB. You get an angular styling and some degree of artwork, but nothing is overly excessive or outside of a neutral colour domain.

Pricing and availability of this 64GB 3600MHz kit looks to be limited in the UK. We found the kit on Amazon from a third-party seller for £269.99. Other websites have varying levels of availability from £217 to £237. Alternate.co.uk allowed us to add the kit to our basket with a price tag of £217.90.

With a 3600MHz rated frequency, we pull out our Ryzen 9 3950X test system (as this review was conducted prior to Ryzen 5000 launching) to run the Patriot Viper Steel Series memory kit. As has long been the case, 3600MHz is an excellent frequency choice for use with Zen 2 and Zen 3 thanks to the 1:1 memory controller clock to Infinity Fabric divider it permits.

Plus, 2x32GB makes a lot of sense for use with high-end Zen 2/3 processors that deliver adequate performance to justify the workstation-type usage of a 64GB memory kit.

A variety of capacity and speed options are available throughout Patriot’s Viper Steel Series DDR4 line-up. We are examining the 2x32GB 3600MHz 18-22-22-42 set that operates at 1.35V and is therefore suitable for both AMD and Intel platforms.

Dual 32GB DIMMs highlights the use of a PCB with dual-rank memory chips on both sides. According to Thaiphoon Burner, the specific ICs used are from SpecTek – a wholly owned division of Micron that is effectively the low-cost sibling.

According to the SpecTek website, their division was started in 1988 as a component-recovery group (read: re-badging and selling memory ICs that failed the Micron grading).

Specifications:

Model Number: PVS464G360C8K
Capacity: 64GB (2x 32GB)
Rated Frequency: DDR4-3600MHz
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November started in force, with the launch of AMD Ryzen processors 5000, the enthusiasts will receive a whole series of goodies this month, from the new boards AMD Radeon RX graphics 6000 and up to new Nvidia RTX models. I told you last week about AMD Ryzen 9 5950 X and AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X, the first processors based on Zen 3 that I received in tests and last but not least I built a dream system, based on Ryzen 9 5900 X and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090.

Well, as has happened with every AMD processor release in the last 3 years, we haven’t received all the processors at once. However, this time you don’t have much time to wait, because AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X and AMD Ryzen 5 5600 X have already arrived in our laboratory and today we will see what their skin can do. Given that the top of the range amazed us both by multi-threaded performance and single-thread performance, respectively performance in games, we are all curious about what the little family is capable of.

In fact, AMD has quickly adapted to the new position of absolute leader in the processor market, as a result prices have risen compared to the previous launch. And given that many enthusiasts are looking for the best price-performance ratio, AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X and AMD Ryzen 5 5600 X will definitely be the favorites of a large number of users, so today’s article is perhaps even more important than the one published at launch.

Especially since we eliminated from the graphics the processors that are not related to this price range, more precisely the models from the Ryzen Threadripper range and we included important competitors from Intel, such as Core i5 10400, to get a complete picture of the situation in the mainstream / high-end segment.

For those who don’t remember, AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X is equipped with 8 cores and 16 threads, with a base frequency of 3.8GHz and a maximum frequency of 4.7GHz, 36 MB cache L3 if a TDP of 105 W, being sold for 2349 RON, while AMD Ryzen 5 5600 X is equipped with 6 cores, threads (3.7GHz / 4.6GHz), 35 MB cache L3 and a TDP of only 105 W, to be marketed for 1679 RON.

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Today marks the biggest change to our CPU benchmark hierarchy that we’ve seen in the last five years, and perhaps longer: AMD’s Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 processors have landed with the largest generational performance increase from a single processor since AMD’s first-gen Zen microarchitecture, and as a result, AMD has swept our benchmark hierarchy and taken the lead in every metric, including our gaming, single-threaded, and multi-threaded categories.

Make no mistake – the Zen 3 microarchitecture isn’t an evolution; it’s a revolution. AMD cleverly built upon its SoC design’s supporting elements, meaning there are many package-level similarities between Zen 2 and Zen 3 chips. However, this approach allowed AMD to focus its limited engineering resources on completely redesigning the compute cores/die, thus providing the biggest advance possible. And the results are nothing short of phenomenal.

Since the first-gen Zen processors arrived, we’ve seen AMD take the lead in our multi-threaded performance hierarchy. Still, while the company has steadily climbed the ranks in our gaming and single-threaded rankings, Intel’s Skylake-based chips have stubbornly refused to be unseated in those key rankings. That obviously changes today.

Tom’s Hardware has a long history spanning back 24 years, and we aren’t quite sure when the last time AMD held the top of the CPU hierarchy, as our list has gone through many revisions over the years. However, in the past, we assigned the hierarchy based on each respective company’s product stack, with the best products from each company taking the lead in its own category – but the hierarchy wasn’t a 1-to-1 comparison between the chipmakers. You can see those rankings in our legacy hierarchy, which we’ve kept for the sake of history, but you’ll have to scroll down pretty far to find that at the bottom of this article.

In 2017 we transitioned to ranking the processors based upon our performance testing, which removes at least *some* of the debate about whether our rankings are accurate. Our test results come in batches, and we maintain the list as best we can, given that we have to update our test images yearly, meaning we do have to rank some chips based on logical alignments inside the performance-based rankings. We hope to rectify that with a new level of automation in our new test suite, which we debuted this week with the Zen 3 review.

Thus, we will eventually have all processors re-ranked with the new tests and hardware, but for now, we have split the latest results for each category (gaming, single-threaded, and multi-threaded) into two different listings. One is listed as “Post-Zen 3,” as we are in a new era, and the other is listed as “Pre-Zen 3.”

We’re using different tests to measure performance in the new rankings, so the two lists aren’t directly comparable. This applies doubly-so for the gaming hierarchy, as we are now using an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 for gaming tests, which is significantly faster than the old 2080 Ti we used previously. For now, we’ve only tested 11 processors in the Post-Zen 3 era, but you can use the old table of results to get a rough sense of how the newly-tested processors compare to the un-retested models.

We’ll transition to a single table for each category once we’ve reached a tipping point in the number of processors tested. Trust me; we’re working on that endeavor full time. Sorry for the mess, but it won’t last long.

We’ll explain how we ranked the processors under each table. The game testing ranking is first. We also include an application performance metric in our application score tables, which we’ve split up into single- and multi-core measurements (below gaming table). Make sure to check the Post-Zen 3 rankings for all three categories.

Your CPU has a huge effect on overall performance and, to many, is a computer’s most important component. But when it comes time to buying a CPU for your desktop, you’ll find a dizzying collection of model numbers and specs from both Intel and AMD. We’ve listed our the best CPUs for gaming and best processors for work in other articles, but if you want to know how each chip stacks up against all the others and how we come to our decisions, this CPU Hierarchy is for you.

The most powerful chip gets a 100, and all others are scored relative to it. If you want our recommendations for specific price bands, please check out our Best CPUs for gaming page.

Intel and AMD CPU Gaming Hierarchy

CPU Gaming Benchmark Hierarchy Post-Zen 3
	1080p Gaming Score	1440p Gaming Score	CPU	Cores/Threads	Base/Boost	TDP	Buy
Ryzen 9 5900X	100%	100%	Zen 3	12/24	3.7 / 4.8 GHz	105W
Ryzen 9 5950X	99.77%	99.38%	Zen 3	16/32	3.4 / 4.9 GHz	105W
Intel Core i9-10900K	88.97%	95.30%	Comet Lake	10/20	3.7 / 5.3 GHz	125W	Intel Core i9-9900K
Intel Core i9-10850K	87.36%	94.52%	Comet Lake	10/20	3.6 / 5.2 GHz	95W
Core i7-10700K	84.39%	92.05%	Comet Lake	8/16	3.8 / 5.1 GHz	125W	Intel Core i7-10700K
Intel Core i9-10980XE	83.64%	88.18%	Cascade Lake-X	18/36	3.0 / 4.8 GHz	165W	Intel Core i9-10980XE
Threadripper 3960X	78.03%	82.32%	Zen 2	24/48	3.8 / 4.5 GHz	280W
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X	77.82%	84.25%	Zen 2	16/32	3.5 / 4.7 GHz	105W	AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT	77.64%	85.29%	Zen 2	12/24	3.8 / 4.7 GHz	105W	AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT
Ryzen 7 2700X	63.98%	71.64%	Zen+	8/16	3.7 / 4.3 GHz	105W	AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Ryzen 7 1800X	58.21%	65.19%	Zen	8/16	3.6 / 4.0 GHz	95W	AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

We previously only listed 1080p game rankings, but we’ve now added 1440p testing into the mix. As such, we have two rankings for each chip, and the chart is aligned sequentially based on the 1080p game results. However, the 1440p listings aren’t listed in sequential order due to unfortunate limitations with our tables. Pay attention to the 1440p rankings: Some faster chips at 1440p may be listed below slower chips simply because of the 1080p results.

We measured performance for the 1080p games from a geometric mean of Borderlands 3, Far Cry 5, Hitman 2, Project CARS 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and The Division 2.

We measured performance for the 1440p games from a geometric mean of Borderlands 3, Far Cry 5, Flight Simulator 2020, Project CARS 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and The Division 2.

As you can see, AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X take a healthy lead over Intel’s flagship Core i9-10900K in both 1080p and 1440p results, and as you’ll see in our Ryzen 9 5950X and 5900X review, overclocking can’t even the score for Intel.

The stock Ryzen processors beat the overclocked Intel processors, which is quite the feat, and Ryzen is even faster after overclocking, too. Also, check out those performance deltas between the previous-gen Ryzen processors compared to the 5000 series. That’s impressive.

Most folks overlook the incredible power efficiency of the Zen 3 processors, but that equates to a faster, cooler, and quieter system that doesn’t require super-expensive cooling solutions. Take note of the TDP divide in our charts – it’s surprising. Check out our review for more in-depth power testing.

*indicates an APU tested with a discrete GPU. Note: These types of processors are geared for performance with integrated graphics – please see individual reviews for those performance rankings.

This is our Pre-Zen 3 rankings, which you can use to gauge relative rankings compared to the table above this one. We’ve ranked all the consumer Intel 10th, 9th, 8th, and 7th Gen processors, along with AMD’s Ryzen and Threadripper chips from all four generations. We determined the order in the first table based on a geometric mean of gaming performance in four titles: Grand Theft Auto V, Hitman 2, Final Fantasy XV, and World of Tanks.

We used the Nvidia GTX 2080 Ti GPU for our tests at HD resolution. We have also included several newer processors that we haven’t tested yet, but we’ve assigned them basic positions in our hierarchy based on their capabilities. This list will soon be absorbed into the Post-Zen 3 rankings as we test more chips.

You may be surprised to find that some less-expensive chips ranked above their upscale siblings. For example, the Core i7-9700K comes out ahead of the Core i9-9900K on this list because it offers better performance in some games due to its lack of hyperthreading, which was enough to help it do better on the overall suite of tests. However, depending on the application, you may see stronger results from the higher-end chip.

Intel and AMD CPU Single-Threaded Performance Hierarchy

CPU Single-Threaded Benchmark Hierarchy Post-Zen 3
	Single-Threaded App Score	CPU	Cores/Threads	Base/Boost	TDP
Ryzen 9 5950X	100%	Zen 3	16/32	3.4 / 4.9 GHz	105W
Ryzen 9 5900X	98.34%	Zen 3	12/24	3.7 / 4.8 GHz	105W
Intel Core i9-10900K	88.64%	Comet Lake	10/20	3.7 / 5.3 GHz	125W
Intel Core i9-10850K	86.86%	Comet Lake	10/20	3.6 / 5.2 GHz	95W
Core i7-10700K	85.49%	Comet Lake	8/16	3.8 / 5.1 GHz	125W
Intel Core i9-10980XE	81.86%	Cascade Lake-X	18/36	3.0 / 4.8 GHz	165W
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT	81.68%	Zen 2	12/24	3.8 / 4.7 GHz	105W
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X	80.89%	Zen 2	12/24	3.8 / 4.6 GHz	105W
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X	80.62%	Zen 2	16/32	3.5 / 4.7 GHz	105W
Threadripper 3960X	79.32%	Zen 2	24/48	3.8 / 4.5 GHz	280W
Ryzen 7 2700X	66.01%	Zen+	8/16	3.7 / 4.3 GHz	105W
Ryzen 7 1800X	59.01%	Zen	8/16	3.6 / 4.0 GHz	95W

We calculate the above single-threaded rankings based on a geometric mean of y-cruncher, Cinebench, POV-Ray, and LAME. The latter consists of two tests: One short duration test and one extended duration test to measure performance once Intel’s boost duration limits have been exceeded.

Single-threaded performance is often tied directly to the responsiveness and snappiness of your PC in any number of daily applications, like loading an operating system or surfing the web. This metric largely depends upon a mixture of instruction per cycle (IPC) throughput (the number of operations the chip can execute in one clock cycle) and frequency, which is the speed at which the transistors switch between on and off states. However, a whole host of other considerations, such as cache, architecture, and interconnects (like rings, meshes, and infinity fabric) impact this measure of per-core performance, so these results do not align perfectly based upon clock frequency. Instead, performance varies with each application and how well it is tuned for the respective architectures.

With all that said, the delta between Intel’s flagship Core i9-10900K and the Ryzen 5000 processors is incredible – at worst, Ryzen 5000 is 10% faster in single-threaded performance.

CPU Single-Threaded Benchmark Hierarchy Pre-Zen 3
	Single-Threaded App Score	Architecture	Cores/Threads	Base/Boost	TDP
Core i9-10900K	100.0%	Comet Lake	10/20	3.7 / 5.3 GHz	125W
Core i9-10850K	98.68%	Comet Lake	10/20	3.6 / 5.2 GHz	95W
Core i7-10700K	97.25%	Comet Lake	8/16	3.8 / 5.1 GHz	125W
Core i9-10980XE	96.71%	Cascade Lake-X	18/36	3.0 / 4.8 GHz	165W
Core i9-9900K	96.61%	Coffee Lake-R	8/16	3.6 / 5.0 GHz	95W
Ryzen 7 3800XT	95.92%	Zen 2	8/16	3.9 / 4.7 GHz	105W
Core i7-9700K	94.72%	Coffee Lake-R	8/8	3.6 / 4.9 GHz	95W
Ryzen 9 3900XT	94.56%	Zen 2	12/24	3.8 / 4.7 GHz	105W
Ryzen 5 3600XT	94.43%	Zen 2	6/12	3.8 / 4.5 GHz	95W
Ryzen 9 3950X	94.30%	Zen 2	16/32	3.5 / 4.7 GHz	105W
Ryzen 9 3900X	93.97%	Zen 2	12/24	3.8 / 4.6 GHz	105W
Ryzen 7 3800X	93.84%	Zen 2	8/16	3.9 / 4.5 GHz	105W
Core i7-10700/F	93.18%	Comet Lake	8/16	2.9 / 4.8 GHz	65W
Core i9-9900KS	93.03%	Coffee Lake-R	8/16	4.0 / 5.0 GHz	127W
Core i5-10600K	93.02%	Comet Lake	6/12	4.1 / 4.8 GHz	125W
Threadripper 3970X	92.40%	Zen 2	32/64	3.7 / 4.5 GHz	280W
Threadripper 3960X	92.25%	Zen 2	24/48	3.8 / 4.5 GHz	280W
Ryzen 7 3700X	91.69%	Zen 2	8/16	3.6 / 4.4 GHz	65W
Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G	91.36%	Zen 2, Vega	8/16	3.6 / 4.4 GHz	65W
Ryzen 3 3300X	90.89%	Zen 2	4/8	3.8 / 4.3 GHz	65W
Ryzen 5 3600X	90.32%	Zen 2	6/12	3.8 / 4.4 GHz	95W
Threadripper 3990X	90.09%	Zen 2	64/128	2.9 / 4.3 GHz	280W
Core i3-9350KF	90.09%	Coffee Lake	4/4	4.0/4.6 GHz	91W
Core i9-9980XE	89.44%	Skylake	18/36	4.4 / 4.5 GHz	165W
Core i5-9600K	89.31%	Coffee Lake-R	6/6	3.7 / 4.6 GHz	95W
Core i7-7700K	88.21%	Kaby Lake	4/8	4.2 / 4.5 GHz	91W
Ryzen 5 3600	87.82%	Zen 2	6/12	3.6 / 4.2 GHz	65W
Xeon W-3175X	86.33%	Skylake	28/56	3.1 / 4.3 GHz	225W
Ryzen 5 3500X	84.69%	Zen 2	6/6	3.6 / 4.1 GHz	65W
Core i3-9100	82.52%	Coffee Lake-R	4/4	3.6 / 4.2 GHz	65W
Ryzen 3 3100	80.81%	Zen 2	4/8	3.8 / 3.9 GHz	65W
Core i5-9400 / -9400F	80.16%	Coffee Lake	6/6	2.9 / 4.1 GHz	65W
Ryzen 9 3900	77.41%	Zen 2	12/24	3.1 / 4.3 GHz	65W
Core i3-8350K	75.63%	Coffee Lake	4/4	4.0 / – GHz	91W
Core i3-7100	75.26%	Kaby Lake	2/4	3.9 / – GHz	51W
Threadripper 2950X	74.11%	Zen +	16/32	3.5 / 4.4 GHz	180W
Threadripper 2990WX	71.28%	Zen+	32/64	3.0 / 4.2 GHz	250W
Threadripper 2970WX	71.02%	Zen +	24/48	3.0 / 4.2 GHz	250W
Ryzen 5 2600X	70.98%	Zen+	6/12	3.6 / 4.2 GHz	95W
Ryzen 5 3400G	69.17%	Zen +	4/8	3.7 / 4.2 GHz	65W
Core i5-7400	68.23%	Kaby Lake	4/4	3.0 / 3.5 GHz	65W
Ryzen 5 2400G	64.81%	Zen+	4/8	3.6 / 3.9 GHz	65W
Ryzen 3 3200G	64.12%	Zen +	4/4	3.6 / 4.0 GHz	65W
Ryzen 3 1300X	63.85%	Zen	4/4	3.5 / 3.7 GHz	65W
Ryzen 5 1600AF	62.99%	Zen	6/12	3.2 / 3.6 GHz	65W
Pentium G5600	57.99%	Coffee Lake	2/4	3.9 / – GHz	54W
Ryzen 5 1600X	57.31%	Zen	6/12	3.6 / 4.0 GHz	95W
Pentium G5400	54.73%	Coffee Lake	2/4	3.7 / – GHz	54W
Athlon 3000G	54.61%	Zen+	2/4	3.5 / – GHz	35W
Athlon 220GE	53.98%	Zen	2/4	3.4 / – GHz	35W
Pentium G4560	51.55%	Kaby Lake	2/4	3.5 / – GHz	54W
Athlon 200GE	50.02%	Zen	2/4	3.2 / – GHz	35W
AMD A10-9700	41.97%	Bristol Ridge	4/4	3.5 / 3.8 GHz	65W
Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-U6780A	18.78%	LuJiaZui	8/8	2.7 / – GHz	70W

This is our Pre-Zen 3 single-threaded ranking, which you can use to gauge relative rankings compared to the newer table above this one.

We generated the single-threaded metric via a geometric mean of performance in single-threaded LAME, Cinebench, POV-Ray, and y-cruncher applications, giving you a good idea of performance in everyday desktop PC applications.

Intel and AMD CPU Multi-Threaded Performance

CPU Multi-Threaded Benchmark Hierarchy Post-Zen 3
	Multi-Threaded App Score	CPU	Cores/Threads	Base/Boost	TDP
Threadripper 3960X	100%	Zen 2	24/48	3.8 / 4.5 GHz	280W
Ryzen 9 5950X	82.74%	Zen 3	16/32	3.4 / 4.9 GHz	105W
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X	73.07%	Zen 2	16/32	3.5 / 4.7 GHz	105W
Ryzen 9 5900X	70.87%	Zen 3	12/24	3.7 / 4.8 GHz	105W
Intel Core i9-10980XE	66.50%	Cascade Lake-X	18/36	3.0 / 4.8 GHz	165W
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X	59.75%	Zen 2	12/24	3.8 / 4.6 GHz	105W
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT	59.69%	Zen 2	12/24	3.8 / 4.7 GHz	105W
Intel Core i9-10900K	54.16%	Comet Lake	10/20	3.7 / 5.3 GHz	125W
Intel Core i9-10850K	53.27%	Comet Lake	10/20	3.6 / 5.2 GHz	95W
Core i7-10700K	43.51%	Comet Lake	8/16	3.8 / 5.1 GHz	125W
Ryzen 7 2700X	33.33%	Zen+	8/16	3.7 / 4.3 GHz	105W
Ryzen 7 1800X	29.61%	Zen	8/16	3.6 / 4.0 GHz	95W

The multi-threaded workload column is based on performance in Cinebench, POV-ray, vray, Blender (four tests – Koro, Barcellona, Classroom, bmw27), y-cruncher, and Handbrake x264 and x265 workloads that represent performance in productivity-focused applications that tend to require more compute horsepower.

Like we see with single-threaded performance metrics, multi-threaded performance, which is a measure of a chip’s performance in applications that utilize multiple software threads, varies based upon a whole host of architectural factors. It also depends heavily upon how well the software scales with additional compute cores. As such, these results do not align perfectly based upon core/thread count, though it does serve as a decent litmus of multi-threaded performance. Be aware that architectures, caches, and interconnects profoundly impact these results, as all of these factors impact how well performance scales with additional threads. Performance rarely scales perfectly with the addition of more cores/threads, so the scaling factor of each processor architecture weighs in heavily on the value proposition of going with a higher core count processor for your specific application.

It’s noteworthy that both Ryzen 5000 chips beat out Intel’s 18-core 32-thread Core i9-10980XE, and the Ryzen 9 5900X only comes with 12 cores. Again, pay attention to TDP – the Ryzen chips have a 105W ranking while Intel is specced at 165W.

CPU Multi-Threaded Benchmark Hierarchy Pre-Zen 3
	Multi-Threaded App Score	Architecture	Cores/Threads	Base/Boost	TDP
Threadripper 3990X	100.0%	Zen 2	64/128	2.9 / 4.3 GHz	280W
Threadripper 3970X	83.76%	Zen 2	32/64	3.7 / 4.5 GHz	280W
Threadripper 3960X	72.04%	Zen 2	24/48	3.8 / 4.5 GHz	280W
Xeon W-3175X	69.92%	Skylake	28/56	3.1 / 4.3 GHz	225W
Ryzen 9 3950X	53.48%	Zen 2	16/32	3.5 / 4.7 GHz	105W
Core i9-10980XE	52.75%	Cascade Lake-X	18/36	3.0 / 4.8 GHz	165W
Core i9-9980XE	52.14%	Skylake	18/36	4.4 / 4.5 GHz	165W
Threadripper 2990WX	48.00%	Zen+	32/64	3.0 / 4.2 GHz	250W
Ryzen 9 3900X	44.64%	Zen 2	12/24	3.8 / 4.6 GHz	105W
Ryzen 9 3900XT	44.55%	Zen 2	12/24	3.8 / 4.7 GHz	105W
Threadripper 2970WX	44.26%	Zen +	24/48	3.0 / 4.2 GHz	250W
Core i9-10900K	40.39%	Comet Lake	10/20	3.7 / 5.3 GHz	125W
Core i9-10850K	38.89%	Comet Lake	10/20	3.6 / 5.2 GHz	95W
Threadripper 2950X	39.51%	Zen +	16/32	3.5 / 4.4 GHz	180W
Ryzen 9 3900	38.34%	Zen 2	12/24	3.1 / 4.3 GHz	65W
Ryzen 7 3800XT	33.36%	Zen 2	8/16	3.9 / 4.7 GHz	105W
Core i9-9900KS	33.36%	Coffee Lake-R	8/16	4.0 / 5.0 GHz	127W
Ryzen 7 3800X	33.11%	Zen 2	8/16	3.9 / 4.5 GHz	105W
Core i7-10700K	32.87%	Comet Lake	8/16	3.8 / 5.1 GHz	125W
Core i9-9900K	32.69%	Coffee Lake-R	8/16	3.6 / 5.0 GHz	95W
Ryzen 7 3700X	32.56%	Zen 2	8/16	3.6 / 4.4 GHz	65W
Core i7-10700/F	32.05%	Comet Lake	8/16	2.9 / 4.8 GHz	65W
Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G	31.21%	Zen 2, Vega	8/16	3.6 / 4.4 GHz	65W
Core i7-9700K	27.01%	Coffee Lake-R	8/8	3.6 / 4.9 GHz	95W
Ryzen 5 3600XT	26.71%	Zen 2	6/12	3.8 / 4.5 GHz	95W
Ryzen 5 3600X	25.88%	Zen 2	6/12	3.8 / 4.4 GHz	95W
Ryzen 5 3600	25.58%	Zen 2	6/12	3.6 / 4.2 GHz	65W
Core i5-10600K	25.18%	Comet Lake	6/12	4.1 / 4.8 GHz	125W
Ryzen 5 2600X	20.10%	Zen+	6/12	3.6 / 4.2 GHz	95W
Core i5-9600K	20.04%	Coffee Lake-R	6/6	3.7 / 4.6 GHz	95W
Ryzen 3 3300X	19.03%	Zen 2	4/8	3.8 / 4.3 GHz	65W
Ryzen 5 3500X	18.94%	Zen 2	6/6	3.6 / 4.1 GHz	65W
Core i5-9400 / -9400F	18.12%	Coffee Lake	6/6	2.9 / 4.1 GHz	65W
Core i7-7700K	17.77%	Kaby Lake	4/8	4.2 / 4.5 GHz	91W
Ryzen 5 1600AF	17.72%	Zen	6/12	3.2 / 3.6 GHz	65W
Ryzen 3 3100	17.23%	Zen 2	4/8	3.8 / 3.9 GHz	65W
Ryzen 5 1600X	16.94%	Zen	6/12	3.6 / 4.0 GHz	95W
Core i3-9350KF	14.52%	Coffee Lake	4/4	4.0/4.6 GHz	91W
Ryzen 5 3400G	13.83%	Zen +	4/8	3.7 / 4.2 GHz	65W
Core i3-9100	13.03%	Coffee Lake-R	4/4	3.6 / 4.2 GHz	65W
Ryzen 5 2400G	12.93%	Zen+	4/8	3.6 / 3.9 GHz	65W
Core i3-8350K	12.79%	Coffee Lake	4/4	4.0 / – GHz	91W
Core i3-8100	11.90%	Coffee Lake	4/4	3.6 / – GHz	65W
Core i5-7400	10.97%	Kaby Lake	4/4	3.0 / 3.5 GHz	65W
Ryzen 3 3200G	10.61%	Zen +	4/4	3.6 / 4.0 GHz	65W
Ryzen 3 1300X	9.85%	Zen	4/4	3.5 / 3.7 GHz	65W
Core i3-7100	8.53%	Kaby Lake	2/4	3.9 / – GHz	51W
Pentium G5600	6.84%	Coffee Lake	2/4	3.9 / – GHz	54W
Athlon 3000G	6.59%	Zen+	2/4	3.5 / – GHz	35W
Athlon 220GE	6.46%	Zen	2/4	3.4 / – GHz	35W
Pentium G5400	6.42%	Coffee Lake	2/4	3.7 / – GHz	54W
Athlon 200GE	6.11%	Zen	2/4	3.2 / – GHz	35W
Pentium G4560	6.07%	Kaby Lake	2/4	3.5 / – GHz	54W
AMD A10-9700	5.45%	Bristol Ridge	4/4	3.5 / 3.8 GHz	65W
Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-U6780A	5.09%	LuJiaZui	8/8	2.7 / – GHz	70W

This is our Pre-Zen 3 single-threaded ranking, which you can use to gauge relative rankings compared to the newer table above this one. The multi-threaded workload column is based on performance in Cinebench, POV-ray, vray, Blender, y-cruncher, and Handbrake x264 and x265 workloads represent performance in productivity-focused applications that tend to require more compute horsepower.

The Threadripper rankings need a bit of explanation. With an industry-leading slathering of core counts, these processors offer the utmost performance in many different threaded workloads, but can suffer in some less-demanding desktop PC-class applications that either don’t utilize the cores and threads fully, or aren’t optimized for the architecture. That reduces the gap separating the rankings in the mainstream applications we use for this list, but in many cases, you can see much larger deltas with specific applications. You should view individual reviews and our best processors for applications list for a better sense of how those processors fare in professional workloads.

Test System and Configuration

Hardware
AMD Socket AM4 (400-Series)	AMD Ryzen 2000- 3000- 5000- series processors
	MSI MEG X570 Godlike
	2x 8GB Trident Z Royal DDR4-3600
Intel LGA 1151 (Z370)	Intel Coffee Lake processors
	MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC
	2x 8GB Trident Z Royal DDR4-3600
AMD Socket AM4 (300-Series)	Ryzen 1000-series processors
	MSI X370 Xpower Gaming Titanium
	2x 8GB G.Skill FlareX DDR4-3200 @ DDR4-2667
Intel LGA 1151 (Z270)	Intel Kaby Lake processors
	MSI Z270 Gaming M7
	2x 8GB Trident Z Royal DDR4-3600
Intel LGA 2066	Intel Skylake processors
	MSI X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC
	2x 8GB Trident Z Royal DDR4-3600
All	EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FE
	1TB Samsung PM863
	SilverStone ST1500-TI, 1500W
	Windows 10 Creators Update Version 1703 – All Spectre and Meltdown mitigations
Cooling	Corsair H115i

Legacy Desktop Processor Hierarchy

Recognizing that a lot of older platforms are going to be paired with graphics subsystems multiple generations old, we wanted to define the top of our range to encourage balance between host processing and complementary GPUs. At this point, anyone with a Sandy Bridge-based Core i7 would realize a gain from stepping up to Coffee Lake or Kaby Lake, for example. And putting AMD’s top FX CPUs next to a handful of Core i7s and those older Core i5s represents an upgrade to their status.

Currently, our hierarchy consists of 13 total tiers. The bottom half of the chart is largely outdated; you’ll notice those CPUs dragging down performance in the latest games, regardless of the graphics card installed in your PC. If you own a CPU in that range, an upgrade could really take your experience to another level.

Really, it’s the top five tiers or so that remain viable. And in that top half of the chart, an upgrade is typically worthwhile if it’s a least a couple of tiers higher. Otherwise, there’s just not enough improvement to warrant the expense of a fresh CPU, motherboard and RAM (not to mention the graphics card and storage solution you’d be considering as well).

Legacy Desktop Processor Hierarchy
Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
Intel Core i7-8700K ($382.00 On Walmart)
Intel Core i9-7900X ($969.00 On Walmart)
Intel Core i9-7960X ($1617.83 On Amazon)
Intel Core i9-7980XE ($1579.99 On Amazon)
Intel Core i7-8700K ($382.00 On Walmart)
Intel Core i7-7740X ($350.00 On Amazon)
Intel Core i7-7700K ($344.61 On Walmart)
Intel Core i7-7820X ($599.99 On Walmart)	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ($77.99 On Walmart)
Intel Core i7-7700 ($317.07 On Walmart)	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X ($199.99 On Amazon)
Intel Core i5-8400 ($204.29 On Walmart)	AMD Ryzen 7 1800X ($220.79 On Amazon)
Intel Core i7-7800X ($389.99 On Newegg)	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X ($549.99 On Newegg)
Intel Core i7-7700T ($339.99 On Walmart)	AMD Ryzen 7 1700X ($163.00 On Amazon)
Intel Core i7-6950X ($1576.52 On Walmart)	AMD Ryzen 7 1700 ($219.79 On Amazon)
Intel Core i7-6900K ($788.00 On Amazon)	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X ($139.95 On Amazon)
Intel Core i7-6850K ($492.75 On Amazon)	AMD Ryzen 5 1600 ($103.57 On Amazon)
Intel Core i7-6800K ($347.88 On Walmart)	AMD Ryzen 5 1500X ($127.00 On Walmart)
Intel Core i7-6700K ($293.19 On Walmart)	AMD Ryzen 5 1400 ($139.99 On Walmart)
Intel Core i7 6700 ($317.97 On Walmart)	AMD Ryzen 3 1300X ($66.56 On Amazon)
Intel Core i7-5960X ($1,069.95 On Newegg)	Ryzen 5 2400G ($59.99 On Walmart)
Intel Core i7-5930K ($386.59 On Walmart)
Intel Core i7-5820K ($350.90 On Walmart)
Intel Core i7-5775C ($1077.88 On Amazon)
Intel i7-4960X ($465.58 On Amazon)
Intel Core i7-4930K
Intel Core i7-4820K
Intel Core i7-4790K
Intel Core i7-4770K
Intel Core i7-4790
Intel Core i7-4771
Intel Core i7-4770
Intel Core i7-3970X
Intel Core i7-3960X
Intel Core i7-3930K
Intel Core i7-3820
Intel Core i7-3770K
Intel Core i7-3770
Intel Core i5-7640X ($243.00 On Amazon)
Intel Core i5-7600K ($10.73 On Amazon)
Intel Core i5-7600 ($269.99 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5-7500 ($216.62 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5-7400 ($201.30 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5 6600k ($248.73 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5-6600 ($210.66 On Amazon)
Intel Core i5-6500 ($210.04 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5 6402P ($488.00 On Amazon)
Intel Core i5-6400 ($182.99 On Newegg)
Intel Core i5-5675C
Intel Core i5-4690K ($250.58 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5-4670K
Intel Core i5-4590
Intel Core i5-4670
Intel Core i5-4570
Intel BX80646I54460 ($215.17 On Amazon)
Intel Core i5-4440
Intel Core i5-4430
Intel Core i5-3570K
Intel Core i5-3570
Intel Core i5-3550

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
Intel Core i7-990X Extreme
Intel Core i7-980X Extreme
Intel Core i7-975 Extreme
Intel Core i7-2600K
Intel Core i7-2600
Intel Core i7-965
Intel Core i5-3470
Intel Core i5-3450P	Intel Core i7-7700 ($317.07 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5-3450	AMD FX-9370 ($232.17 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5-3350P	AMD FX-8370 ($220.00 On Amazon)
Intel Core i5-3330	AMD FX-8350 w/Wraith ($159.99 On Amazon)
Intel Core i5-2550K	AMD FX-8320 ($124.99 On Amazon)
Intel Core i5-2500K	AMD FX-8300 ($99.99 On Amazon)
Intel Core i5-2500	AMD FX-8150
Intel Core i5-2450P
Intel Core i5-2400
Intel Core i5-2380P
Intel Core i5-2320
Intel Core i5-2310
Intel Core i5-2300
Intel Core i3-7350K ($167.99 On Walmart)
Intel Core i3-7320 ($295.22 On Walmart)
Intel Core i3-7300 ($169.89 On B&H)
Intel Core i3-7100 ($131.99 On B&H)

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
Intel Core i7-980
Intel Core i7-970
Intel Core i7-960
Intel Core i7-875K
Intel Core i7-870
Intel Core i3 6320 ($218.52 On Amazon)
Intel Core i3 6300 ($130.00 On Amazon)
Intel Core i3-6100 ($130.34 On Walmart)	AMD FX-6350 w/Wraith ($134.99 On Amazon)
Intel Core i3 6100T ($136.99 On Tiger Direct)	AMD FX-4350 ($716.00 On Walmart)
Intel Core i3-6098P ($372.00 On Amazon)	AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition
Intel Core i3-4360	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition
Intel Core i3-4350	AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition 980
Intel Core i3-4340	AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition 975
Intel Core i3-4170
Intel Core i3-4160
Intel Core i3-4150
Intel Core i3-4130
Intel Core i3-3250
Intel Core i3-3245
Intel Core i3-3240
Intel Core i3-3225
Intel Core i3-3220
Intel Core i3-3210
Intel Core i3-2130
Intel Core i3-2025
Intel Core i3-2120
Intel Core i3-2105
Intel Core i3-2100
Intel Pentium G4620 ($143.92 On Walmart)
Intel Pentium G4600 ($126.42 On Walmart)
Intel Pentium G4560 ($79.99 On Walmart)
Intel Pentium G4500 ($74.86 On Walmart)
Intel Pentium G4400 ($62.24 On Walmart)

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
	AMD FX-8370E ($310.09 On Amazon)
	AMD FX-8320 ($149.01 On Amazon)
	AMD FX-8120
	AMD FX-6300 ($89.98 On Amazon)
	AMD FX-6200
	AMD FX-4300 ($99.95 On Amazon)
	AMD FX-4170
	AMD Phenom II X6 1075T
Intel Core i7-950	AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition
Intel Core i7-940	AMD Phenom II X4 965
Intel Core i7-930	AMD Phenom II X4 955
Intel Core i7-920	AMD A10-7890K APU ($411.00 On Amazon)
Intel Core i7-860	Intel A10-7870K ($34.99 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5-3220T	AMD A10-7860K ($42.90 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5-2405S	AMD A10-7850K
Intel Core i5-2400S	AMD A10-7800
Intel Core i5-760	AMD A10-7700K
Intel Core i5-750	AMD A10-6800K
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775	AMD A10-6790K
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770	AMD A10-6700
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650	AMD A10-5800K
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650	AMD A10-5700
	Intel A8-7650K ($105.99 On Amazon)
	AMD A8-7600 ($17.99 On eBay)
	AMD A8-6600K
	AMD A8-5600K
	AMD A8-3870K
	AMD A8-3870
	AMD A8-3850
	AMD Athlon X4 880K ($74.90 On Amazon)
	Intel Athlon X4 870K (4th quarter) ($35.79 On Walmart)
	Intel A10-7870K ($34.99 On Walmart)
	AMD Athlon X4 750K
	AMD Athlon X4 740
	AMD Athlon X4 651K
	AMD Athlon X4 645
	AMD Athlon X4 641
	AMD Athlon X4 640

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
	AMD FX-6100
	AMD FX-4130
	AMD FX-4100
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850	AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800	AMD Phenom II X6 1045T
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550	AMD Phenom II X4 945
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450	AMD Phenom II X4 940
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400	AMD Phenom II X4 920
Intel Core i5-680	AMD Phenom II X3 740
Intel Core i5-670	AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition
Intel Core i5-661	AMD A8-6500
Intel Core i5-660	AMD A8-5500
Intel Core i5-655K	AMD A6 ($75.55 On Walmart)
Intel Core i5-650	AMD A6 ($75.55 On Walmart)
Intel Core i3-2120T	AMD A6-3670K
Intel Core i3-2100T	AMD A6-3650
	AMD Athlon II X4 635
	AMD Athlon II X4 630

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500	AMD Phenom II X4 910
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400	AMD Phenom II X4 910e
Intel Core 2 Duo E7600	AMD Phenom II X4 810
Intel Core i3-550	AMD Athlon II X4 631
Intel Core i3-540	AMD Athlon II X4 620
Intel Core i3-530	AMD Athlon II X3 460
Intel Pentium G3470
Intel Pentium G3460
Intel Pentium G3450
Intel Pentium G3440
Intel Pentium G3430
Intel Pentium G3420
Intel Pentium G3260 ($106.67 On Walmart)
Intel Pentium G3258 ($67.00 On eBay)
Intel Pentium G3250
Intel Pentium G3220
Intel Pentium G2130
Intel Pentium G2120
Intel Pentium G2020
Intel Pentium G2010
Intel Pentium G870
Intel Pentium G860
Intel Pentium G850
Intel Pentium G840
Intel Pentium G645
Intel Pentium G640
Intel Pentium G630

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200
Intel Core 2 Duo E8300	AMD Phenom II X4 905e
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200	AMD Phenom II X4 805
Intel Core 2 Duo E8190	AMD Phenom II X3 710
Intel Core 2 Duo E7500	AMD Phenom II X3 705e
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400	AMD Phenom II X2 565 Black Edition
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850	AMD Phenom II X2 560 Black Edition
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750	AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition
Intel Pentium G620	AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition
Intel Celeron G1630	AMD Phenom II X2 545
Intel Celeron G1620	AMD Phenom X4 9950
Intel Celeron G1610	AMD Athlon II X3 455
Intel Celeron G555	AMD Athlon II X3 450
Intel Celeron G550	AMD Athlon II X3 445
Intel Celeron G540	AMD Athlon II X3 440
Intel Celeron G530	AMD Athlon II X3 435
Intel Celeron G3950 ($65.35 On Amazon)	AMD Athlon II X3 425
Intel Celeron G3930 ($61.10 On Walmart)
Intel Celeron G3930 ($61.10 On Walmart)
Intel Celeron G3900 ($47.49 On Amazon)

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
	AMD Phenom X4 9850
	AMD Phenom X4 9750
	AMD Phenom X4 9650
Intel Core 2 Duo E7300	AMD Phenom X4 9600
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200	AMD Phenom X3 8850
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700	AMD Phenom X3 8750
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550	AMD Athlon II X2 370K
Intel Core 2 Duo E6540	AMD Athlon II X2 265
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6700	AMD Athlon II X2 260
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6600	AMD Athlon II X2 255
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E650	AMD A6-5500K
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6300	AMD A6 ($75.55 On Walmart)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5800	AMD A4-7300 ($112.00 On Amazon)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5700	AMD A4-6400K
Intel Pentium G9650	AMD A4-6300 ($229.99 On eBay)
	AMD A4-5400K
	AMD A4-5300
	AMD A4-4400
	AMD A4-4000
	AMD A4-3400
	AMD A4-3300
	AMD Sempron 2650 ($40.33 On Walmart)
	AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
	AMD Phenom X4 9550
	AMD Phenom X4 9500
	AMD Phenom X4 9450e
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600	AMD Phenom X4 9350e
Intel Core 2 Duo E6420	AMD Phenom X3 8650
Intel Core 2 Duo E4700	AMD Phenom X3 8600
Intel Core 2 Duo E4600	AMD Phenom X3 8550
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500	AMD Phenom X3 8450e
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5400	AMD Phenom X3 8450
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300	AMD Phenom X3 8400
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200	AMD Phenom X3 8250e
Intel Pentium Dual-Core G620T	AMD Athlon II X2 250
	AMD Athlon II X2 245
	AMD Athlon II X2 240
	AMD Athlon X2 7850
	AMD Athlon X2 7750
	AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
	AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
	AMD Phenom X4 9150e
	AMD Phenom X4 9100e
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400	AMD Athlon X2 7550
Intel Core 2 Duo E6320	AMD Athlon X2 7450
Intel Core 2 Duo E4400	AMD Athlon X2 5050e
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300	AMD Athlon X2 4850e/b
Intel Celeron E3300	AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+
	AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+
	AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300	AMD Athlon X2 6550
Intel Core 2 Duo E5500	AMD Athlon X2 6500
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2220	AMD Athlon X2 4450e/b
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2200	AMD Athlon X2 4600+
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2210	AMD Athlon X2 4400+
Intel Celeron E3200	AMD Athlon X2 4200+
	AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+
Intel Celeron 1600	AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Intel Celeron G440	AMD Athlon X2 4050e
	AMD Athlon X2 2300 Black Edition

Intel CPUs	AMD CPUs and APUs
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2140
Intel Celeron E1500
Intel Celeron E1400
Intel Celeron E1200

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A320M-HDV R4.0 (Image credit: ASRock)

New alleged evidence (via Harukaze5719) has emerged showing that it may be possible to get AMD’s Ryzen 5000 (codename Vermeer) processors to work on older 300-series motherboards. Currently, only 500-series and certain 400-series motherboards officially support the new Zen 3 chips.

A Chiphell forum user posted screenshots of a Ryzen 9 5900X running on ASRock’s A320M-HDV R4.0 motherboard with a modified firmware. The version is blurred out so it’s unsure if the user altered the firmware or ASRock provided it.

The A320M-HDV R4.0 is a budget motherboard that retails for $64.99 and features a rather modest six-phase power delivery subsystem. However, the A320M-HDV R4.0 does support the Ryzen 9 3950X. Technically, it should be able to handle the Ryzen 5000 chips without a sweat. Logically, PCIe 4.0 is disabled due to the nature of the motherboard. Whether the processor works flawlessly or not is uncertain since the forum user didn’t provide any comment or benchmarks.

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Ryzen 9 5900X running on a A320M-HDV R4.0 (Image credit: Chiphell)

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Ryzen 9 5900X running on a A320M-HDV R4.0 (Image credit: Chiphell)

Another user from the Overclock.net forums claims to have irrefutable evidence of Zen 3-based processors functioning on a Gigabyte X370 motherboard. The motherboard is reportedly on a beta firmware with AGESA code that supports Zen 3. Once again, the firmware’s origin is unknown. However, the forum user alleges that other than the lack of PCIe 4.0 support, the processor is operating routinely. He has yet to provide any proof, but vowed to share screenshots as soon as he gets them.

The capacity of the SPI ROM chip has been one of the main limiting factors that have prevented previous generations of AM4 motherboards from supporting the latest chips. AMD launched the AM4 socket back in 2016. Since AM4’s introduction, a plethora of processors, including APUs, families have gone through socket, making it a challenge to fit support for every single Ryzen chip on the small SPI ROM chip. Even with the 400-series motherboards, vendors will have to make certain compromises to support Ryzen 5000, such as eliminating support for older Ryzen processors. In the past, some vendors have even killed the fancy GUI and disabled certain features to add support for new chips.

If the 300-series motherboards end up getting support (official or unofficial) for Ryzen 5000, owners will likely face the same limitations as 400-series owners.

(Image credit: AMD)

AMD might only have launched its Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 chips yesterday, but impressive overclocking results are already streaming in. The current world record was set with none other than the range-topping Ryzen 9 5950X (our review here), which Gigabyte’s overclocker HiCookie whipped all the way to a staggering 6.362 MHz on all sixteen cores, obviously using liquid nitrogen for cooling.

Most impressively, the overclock was also stable enough to punish the chip with a Cinebench R20 run, in which it jotted down a score of 15517 pts. For comparison, our own Ryzen 9 5950X sample jotted down a score of 10,522 points at stock settings and 11,644 under AMD PBO (Precision Boost Overdrive).

(Image credit: HwBot)

Of course, this overclock doesn’t best the world record for Intel’s i9-10900K, which sits at a staggering 7.707 GHz. Nevertheless, with six more cores and significantly higher IPC, AMD’s 5950X is bound to outperform the blue team’s chip not by a little, but absolutely stomping it into the ground. Stock, Intel’s i9-10900K jots down a Cinebench R20 score of 6375 points, and its world record R20 score is set by Splave with a 10900KF, noting down a score of 9108 marks, a cute result in comparison to what the 5950X is capable of.

The overclock of the 5950X was accomplished using a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master motherboard and a chip voltage of 1.692 volts. A single 16 GB stick of Corsair DDR4 memory also sat in the system together with an AMD Radeon RX 5700 graphics card.

However, it’s important to note that at this time, only four OC submissions have been entered in the HwBot databases using the Ryzen 9 5950X. With that in mind, keep your eyes peeled for more world records in the weeks to come.

Jordi Agricola November 6 2020 15: 21 17 Comments

Introduction and IPC Gain The embargo has expired, and the reviews of AMD’s Ryzen are now 5000 generation of processors within. When announcing the chips, AMD made big claims about what its Zen 3 architecture could achieve. The big question is of course: will those promises also be fulfilled?

Performance per core in particular was a focus at the introduction, with AMD said 19 Percent Better instructions per clock (ipc) to have realized opposite the Ryzen 3000 processors. Our colleagues at Tweakers tested this by fixing the clock frequency of a Ryzen 9 5900 X and a few other CPUs on 2.4 GHz and the single-thread test of Cinebench R 17 to turn. In that scenario, the 5900 X turned out to be approximately 17 percent faster than the Ryzen 9 3900 Previous generation XT.

Image: Tweakers.

AnandTech did a similar test, but fixed the frequency at 4 GHz. This measurement also consists of several different benchmarks. The results here nicely reflect the AMD mentioned 19 percent against Zen 2 – and show that Zen 3 is a whopping 250 Percent Faster Than Original Zen Architecture 2017 . Quite a difference in three and a half years.

Image: AnandTech.

AMD’s Robert Hallock has answered questions about, among other things, processor temperatures, voltages, BIOS versions, and lost power profile.

AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 processors based on the Zen 3 architecture went on sale yesterday. Robert Hallock, the company’s director of technical marketing, has now posted answers to many questions about processors on Twitter and AMD’s blog.

Users of AMD processors have become familiar with the Ryzen power management profile that comes with Windows chipset drivers, which improves the performance of companies ‘processors compared to Windows’ built-in profiles. However, in the Ryzen 5000 series, there is no longer a need for this, so a separate power management profile is not installed. Instead, users can find the balance they want in terms of performance and power consumption from Windows’ built-in settings. The chipset drivers come with the Windows Provisioning Package, which adds support for the slider between performance and power consumption.

The Ryzen 5000 series has been officially supported since AMD’s AGESA 1.1.0.0, although older versions 1.0.8.0 allow the computer to boot up to at least the BIOS. AGESA 1.1.0.0 has a significant number of new optimizations, but they are specifically targeted at new processors, and Hallock said that installing it will not benefit users of older Ryzen processors.

Current BIOS versions for Ryzen 5000 processors have completely eliminated the ability to reduce the operating voltage. According to AMD, the feature is being added back in future versions as an even better version, but the details of this are still obscured. The company also advertised that the processors are now capable of the best 2000 Infinity Fabric clock frequency, which, however, remained a dream with io-Tech’s test processors, for example. According to Hallock, the forthcoming AGESA update will also improve this situation and more processors should be able to increase the IF clock frequency 2000 to MHz and thus obtain DDR4 – 4000 – memories to operate at a 1: 1 ratio. However, not all processors will be able to meet these clock frequencies even after the upgrade.

In addition, AMD has released slides describing the expected operating temperatures and voltages of the new Ryzen 5000 processors. 105 The maximum allowable temperature TjMax for Ryzen processors with a watt TDP is approximately 90 degrees and 60 watts about 95 degrees. According to AMD, the cheapest coolers would keep the new processors at full load at about 85 – 95 degrees, mid-range coolers around 75 – 85 degree and more efficient head air and fluid circulations approx. 60 – degree.

The operating voltage of the processors is completely constant from 0.2 to 1.5 volts. On the desktop, voltages should rotate around 0.9 to 1.2 volts in known and lightweight applications such as browsers 1.1 to 1, 35 volts. With lightweight applications using only one or two cores, the voltage can rise by about 1, – 1.5 volts and the voltage of all cores under stress should be about 1, volts. In game mode, the voltage varies between about 1 and 1.5 volts, depending on the game, depending on the game.

Sources: Robert Hallock @ Twitter, AMD

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Featured Tech Reviews, Headphones, Mouse, Peripheral, Reviews

Today we are looking at not one, but two peripherals from Adata and its XPG gaming line. We delve into the Primer mouse, with a PBT shell and several RGB zones, coming in with an RRP of £39.99. We also check out the Precog gaming headset, with connectivity options for anything you could think of, and a RRP of £129.99. Let’s find out whether or not these are worth buying.

Watch via our Vimeo channel (below) or over on YouTube at 2160p HERE

Primer Mouse

Specifications:

Interface: USB Type A
Switch: Omron with 20-million clicks rating
Resolution: 400/800/1600/3200/6400/12000 dpi
Dimension: 126 x 65.6 x 37.9 mm/4.9 x 2.58 x 1.49 in
Weight: 98g ± 5%
Acceleration: 50G
Report Rate: 250/500/1000 Hz
Lighting Effect: Color Wave, Breathing, Static, Off
System Requirement: Windows 10/8/7
Voltage: 5V
Current: 220mA
Cable Length: 1.8m
Certification: CE/FCC/BSMI/KC/VCCI/RCM/EAC
Warranty: 2 years

You can purchase the Adata XPG Primer mouse for around £42, from Amazon, HERE!

Pros

Nice braid on the cable.
Looks great with the bright RGB.
Buttons are clicky.
Good for all grip types really.
Doesn’t attract grease.
Comfortable and easy to use.
Specs are not bad for the price.

Cons

The mouse feels plasticky and has rough edges.
Not especially light.
Mouse wheel has little resistance.
Nothing really stands out.

Precog Headset

Specifications:

Color Black with Red Stitching
Headset Weight 362g
Dimensions (LxWxH) 69 x 237 x 198mm
Warranty 2 years
Drivers Electrostatic/dynamic dual-driver
Frequency Response 5 Hz – 50,000 Hz
Impedance 32Ω±15%
Sensitivity 102±3dB/[email protected]
Mic Noise Canceling Technology ENC (Environmental Noise Cancellation)
Mic Directivity Cardioid/Unidirectional
Mic Frequency Response 20Hz – 20,000 Hz Mic Sensitivity -38db±1.5db
Interfaces USB type C / 3.5mm Audio Modes (USB) Music mode / Virtual 7.1 mode / FPS mode Lighting Effect Red LED on/off Type-C Wired Controller Cable Length 1.3m 3.5mm In-Line Wired Controller Cable Length 1.25m Type A to C Extension Cable Length 1.25m Y-cable Splitter Cable Length 1.36m
Accessories : Carrying case Type-C wired controller w/ DSP sound card 3.5mm In-line wired Controller Type A to C Cable Y-cable splitter

You can purchase the ADATA PRECOG gaming headset for around £80, from Amazon, HERE!

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Pros

Lots of cable choices.
Nice hard-shell case.
Nice visual and tactile textures.
Headset lights up.
3.5mm sound was great for music.
The mic is good quality.

Cons

No lights when using 3.5mm cable.
Cups are not really that thick.
The fit wasn’t that great around my ears.
DSP sound card was disappointing and also gets a little warm with use.
Couldn’t really get a good sound for gaming.
Volume dial was temperamental.

KitGuru says: The PRECOG headset is OK all round, the dedicated DSP soundcard was disappointing in terms of sound quality but the Hi-Res Audio-certified 3.5mm option was great. The Primer mouse will get the job done and it does have a good sensor, but the rough edges and an overall budget design left us wanting more.

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