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AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

PRICE £366 (£440 inc VAT) from scan.co.uk

The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X is one of the cheapest high end processors in the entire Labs, which is all the more impressive when you consider the amount of power that AMD has loaded inside this CPU

The 3900X has a whopping 12 multithreaded cores, meaning it can handle 24 concurrent threads. That’s two more cores than the Intel Core i9-10900K (see p86), which offers ten cores for a higher price of £530.

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