AMD Steals the Show at Computex
to anybody, Computex 2019 was AMD’s. It picked the event to launch its new 7nm Zen 2 Ryzen 3000 series processors and the first Navi graphics cards. Zen 2 is no surprise—we’ve been drip-fed details for months—what we do have now are the hard numbers for the initial release. The five new chips range run from a $199 Ryzen 3 3600 through to a 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X for $499. Clock speeds don’t vary much, with 300MHz between the fastest and slowest base clocks, and 400MHz on the boost clocks. We can’t expect miracles—as the die process shrinks, you have to lower voltages, which makes it harder to run really high frequencies. Chips are
