AMD Ryzen 7 5800X review: A potent octa-core desktop CPU without as strong an identity as its siblings
Announced in early October and unleashed on PC enthusiasts about a month later, AMD’s new processors (CPU) based on the Zen 3 architecture are successors to the now-last-gen Ryzen 3000 desktop chips using the Zen 2 architecture. TheseRyzen 5000 CPUs, including the Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X, and Ryzen 9 5950X, are, if nothing else,fast. The new chips are based on a 7nm process like the 3000 series, but they’ve undergone a core architecture redesign that boosts performance and efficiency compared to Zen 2....