AMD's Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT and Ryzen 5 3600XT has been listed at retail

-They're going for a 7/7 launch.

-3900xt & 3800xt will have 4.7 boost.

-3600xt will only have 4.5 boost

-they're coming in at the same RRP as the "X" models launched at last year.
 
Both Intel and AMD are cheating with their "max boost". CPUs are tuned to burst just before executing a task so that you see the reported frequency. Rest of the time they are on much lower frequencies. I hope these ones can sustain much higher clocks.
 
Both Intel and AMD are cheating with their "max boost". CPUs are tuned to burst just before executing a task so that you see the reported frequency. Rest of the time they are on much lower frequencies. I hope these ones can sustain much higher clocks.
That's still fairly useful for frequency dependent use cases. Gaming and Photoshop come to mind.
 
That's still fairly useful for frequency dependent use cases. Gaming and Photoshop come to mind.

Not what I meant. For example if you look at single-threaded task graphs CPUs will boost to max (4.6 AMD, 5.3 Intel) for a fraction of the second, just to say they did it and then continue executing tasks at a much lower speed.

Edit: Here is the image. No actual work was done at the advertised frequency. Just a bit boost before and after so that HW Info could repot max frequency of 4.6. And single-threaded tasks are executed at 4.3-ish GHz.

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I see, I fully agree id the window is literally exactly or under a second. I thought it lasted a bit longer, in 10 second range, where it could kick in for the brief periods when GPU no longer was the limiting factor.
 
It isn't so black and white.

You need to be in high performance mode. Disable some low power stuff, LLC, EIST, etc.

On AMD might be a little different. I just know on Intel I can force it's default turbo and have it stay there until it's max temp is increased
 
It isn't so black and white.

You need to be in high performance mode. Disable some low power stuff, LLC, EIST, etc.

On AMD might be a little different. I just know on Intel I can force it's default turbo and have it stay there until it's max temp is increased

Not sure if I'm misinterpreting what you're saying or not, but i wouldn't call LLC a low power option
 
What I will say though, is that a fraction of a second is an age for microprocessor(You could fit over a billion instructions in a fraction of a second now), and the first instructions, before the pipeline has filled, are the slowest to execute, so boosting to counteract that and get to a filled pipeline quickly makes sense for speed & efficiency reasons. I think it's disingenuous to say this does nothing, for most general tasks it probably boosts for the whole execution window and for larger tasks it probably boosts until after the pipeline is filled, both would have some measurable impact(With the right tools anyway) , just not a huge one.
 
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