The wait is over - AMD has shown its cards, revealing the monster 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X, which will cost just $499, plus two eight-core models - the Ryzen 7 3800X and 3700X. Starting with the Ryzen 9 3900X - this has 12 cores and is so far the flagship of the range, so despite rumors pointing at a 16-core part, it appears that 12 and not 16 cores are the limit for now. It offers 24 threads, uses two Core Chiplet Die's (CCD) to get to 12 cores, sports a massive 70MB cache and can boost up to 4.6GHz. As expected, there are six-core Ryzen 5 parts too, both with 12 threads and slower frequencies than the flagship Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 parts, again with 65W and 95W TDPs. Even if it doesn't, though, AMD has done what we'd hoped and all signs are that 3rd Gen Ryzen will live up to the hype.

Source: Forbes May 27, 2019 03:22 UTC