AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Review

👤by Matthew Hodgson  Comments 📅24-07-19

Test Setup & Software

For the purpose of testing AMD Ryzen 7 3800X we used the ASRock X570 Taichi – this motherboard is a strong offering and provides us with a good platform to analyse performance.

CPU being tested
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X (3.9GHz – 4.5GHz Boost) Zen 2

TEST SETUP

Cooling be quiet! Dark Rock 4
Motherboard ASRock X570 Taichi
Memory 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz
Graphics Radeon RX 480 8GB
Storage Corsair LX 512GB SSD
PSU Corsair RM 1000 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU

BENCHMARKS

Cinebench R15 – CPU/OpenGL Score
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware SANDRA – CPU & Memory benchmarks
POV-RAY – CPU benchmarks
TrueCrypt – CPU benchmarks
AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks & Memory
PCMark 8 – Creative & Photoshop
PCMark 10 – Extended
3DMark FireStrike – 3D Benchmark
3DMark TimeSpy – 3D Benchmark
Games – Rise of the Tomb Raider & Total War: WARHAMMER