AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Review
As part of AMD's third-generation Ryzen 3000 CPU lineup hitting the market July 7, the $329 Ryzen 7 3700X offers revolutionary new features like support for the fourth-generation PCI Express interface and a whole new processor microarchitecture from AMD, Zen 2. This new CPU may represent just an incremental raw-performance improvement over its second-generation equivalent, the Ryzen 7 2700X, but it does it an impressive 65-watt TDP. Plus, the price remains the same, and the performance was very good for the money. What that means: If you're thinking about building a powerful Ryzen-based PC from scratch, the Ryzen 7 3700X offers AMD's most compelling, efficient alternative to Intel's Core i7 CPUs that we've seen yet. It wins an Editors' Choice for mainstream CPUs.
At First Blush, an Incremental Improvement
A combination of a marketing update (the introduction of a "Ryzen 9" tier) and engineering advancements means that the Ryzen 7 chips are no longer AMD's mainstream flagships,...
An aggressively priced eight-core CPU, AMD's Ryzen 7 3700X is a powerful general-purpose processor with low power consumption, straddling the border between prosumer flamethrowers like AMD's Threadripper and mainstream chips like Intel's Core i5.
Just 65-watt TDP; Attractive pricing; Support for PCI Express 4.0; Lots of L3 cache; Multithreaded, with eight cores and 16 threads; Easy overclocking tools; Good in-box cooler
Single-core performance occasionally behind competing chips; No integrated graphics processing