All about AMD Ryzen 3rd gen!!!

All about AMD Ryzen 3rd gen!!!


As teased back at CES, AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs will use a 7 nanometer (nm) manufacturing process. This refers to the size of a processor’s individual transistors. The smaller they are, the more you can cram onto a single piece of silicon, which, in theory at least, should make them more powerful than processors with larger, and therefore fewer transistors packed into the same area. For comparison’s sake, the current generation of Coffee Lake CPUs, for example, use a 14nm manufacturing process, so their transistors are literally twice the size of AMD’s. That doesn’t necessarily mean AMD’s new CPUS are going to be twice as fast as Intel’s – there are various bits of technical wizardry too complicated to explain here as to why that is – but there are several reasons why 7nm is pretty exciting.

For example, every individual 7nm core in AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series will be based on their new Zen 2 architecture. This is a complete overhaul from their previous generation of Zen core (known as Zen+), with AMD claiming it can deliver 15% greater performance across all types of PC application. That’s a pretty impressive jump. What’s more, Zen 2 also has a much larger cache size than Zen+, which may not sound particularly sexy, but its reduced memory latency times should help make games perform better as well.

AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs are also going to be the first PC platform in the world to support the super fast PCIe 4.0 standard. You’ll need a PCIe 4.0-enabled motherboard to take advantage of it, of course, but PCIe 4.0 massively increases the amount of bandwidth available to your PC components, allowing them to churn through a heck of a lot more data in the same amount of time – and should provide a potent combo when paired with one of AMD’s Navi GPUs, which also support PCIe 4.0.

Indeed, AMD showed that an entire PCIe 4.0 system – such as the Ryzen 7 3800X and RX 5700 PC they demoed on stage – was up to 69% faster than the PCIe 3.0 Intel Core i9-9900K / RTX 2080 Ti PC they showed running 3DMark’s upcoming PCIe Feature test, which is designed to show how much extra graphics performance you can get from PCIe 4.0.

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