$200 AMD Zen 2 CPU Beats $500 Intel Core i9-9900k | Leaked Benchmarks
Intel Doesn’t Stand a Chance?
Right now Intel controls the majority of the gaming and productivity market with their Coffe Lake CPUs but, it seems like that monopoly is finally going to end thanks to the world’s first 7nm CPU, AMD Zen 2. Although Intel is having a really hard time with 10nm CPUs, AMD is going to release their 7nm Zen 2 series CPUs on July 7th and according to the latest rumors and benchmarks, Zen 2 is going to be quite a beast!
AMD Zen 2 Specs and Price
As you can see below, AMD Zen 2 is going to change the gaming market forever. Zen 2 starts at a price point of $199 and it brings 6 cores/12 threads for only $199. Only a year or two ago, a 6 core CPU would’ve been considered high-end but thanks to the competitive market started when Ryzen launched, Intel stepped up their game. Intel was quickly able to outperform Ryzen with Coffe Lake but, it seems like that’s not going to happen this time as Intel has no plans for the future right now.
| AMD Ryzen 3000 Desktop AM4 Series | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cores/Threads | | Base Clock | | Turbo Clock | | TDP | | MSRP | |
| Ryzen 9 3950X | 7nm 16C / 32T | 3.5 GHz | 4.7 GHz | 105W | TBC |
| Ryzen 9 3900X | 7nm 12C / 24T | 3.8 GHz | 4.6 GHz | 105W | 499 USD |
| Ryzen 7 3800X | 7nm 8C / 16T | 3.9 GHz | 4.5 GHz | 105W | 399 USD |
| Ryzen 7 3700X | 7nm 8C / 16T | 3.6 GHz | 4.4 GHz | 65W | 329 USD |
| Ryzen 5 3600X | 7nm 6C / 12T | 3.8 GHz | 4.4 GHz | 95W | 249 USD |
| Ryzen 5 3600 | 7nm 6C / 12T | 3.6 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 65W | 199 USD |
Leaked Benchmarks
Thanks to a foreign tech site called Elchapuzasinformatico, we have gotten our hands on leaked single-core benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen AMD Ryzen 5 3600. Single-core performance is very important in gaming which is why Intel Coffe Lake was easily able to outperform Ryzen in gaming benchmarks but, it seems like that’s not going to be the case with Zen 2 as the $200 Ryzen 5 3600 is able to perform on par with $500 Intel Core i9-9900K in Cinebench 15’s single-core test. Of course, we have to mention that the Core i9-9900k has a TDP of 95W while the Ryzen 5 3600’s TDP is only 65W.
Thanks to this leaked benchmark, we now know that AMD Zen 2 is going to beat the competition in both single-core and multi-core performance which means that Ryzen will take the lead in gaming and productivity. Gamers are a large segment of the CPU market hence, the CPU with better gaming performance can be the winner. Intel Coffe Lake performs a bit worse then Ryzen in multi-core benchmarks but, significantly outperforms it in gaming benchmarks which is why Coffe Lake was able to beat Ryzen in 2018 and 2017.