The Rise of AMD Ryzen 2020
" Ryzen 5000 has landed; you can see the full launch day review of the Ryzen 9 5950X and 5900X here . We've also now had a chance to review the mainstream Ryzen 5 5600X , which cements AMD's commanding lead over Intel's Comet Lake chips. With the Ryzen 5000 series, it's fair to say that AMD has finally, and fully, eclipsed Intel's performance dominance in desktop PCs. AMD 's Zen 3 architecture has landed in the new Ryzen 5000 series, breaking the 5GHz barrier with a newer version of AMD's most successful architecture to date. We've got plenty of gaming and application benchmarks, power measurements, and thermal testing here in this article to serve as a guide to the performance you can expect from AMD's most dominant series of processors in more than a decade. We also have pricing guides and links to tips on where to find the chips at retail. The desktop PC is first on AMD's Zen 3 chopping block, but the new microarchitecture will eve...
