News AMD’s 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs will release in mid 2019, 8-core model to be as fast as Intel’s i9 9900K

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AMD’s 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs will release in mid 2019, 8-core model to be as fast as Intel’s i9 9900K | DSOGaming | The Dark Side Of Gaming

At CES 2019, AMD demoed an eight-core model with a not finalized frequency against Intel’s high-end Core i9 9900K and the 3rd generation Ryzen CPU was slightly faster. Not only that, but the AMD chip draws less power than the Intel chip.

If true, Ryzen 3 could be a major pain for Intel.

 

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not if it also costs just as much, like they did with the GPU