→ Amd ryzen 7 3700x review in Spanish (full analysis)

Before starting the review, we can affirm that the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X will be one of the most purchased processors for gaming and multitasking this year. It has 8 cores, 16 threads of execution, 64 MB of cache, AMD's new chiplet system and a 65W TDP.

Will it be worth changing to buy the Ryzen 7 3700X having an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X ? We will see all this and much more during our analysis.

As always, we thank AMD Spain for trusting us by leaving us the sample for analysis.

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X technical features

Unboxing

After having thoroughly tested the 3900X model, now it's time to take a couple of steps down and try this new AMD Ryzen 7 3700X. As you can guess, this is the 3rd generation version of the Ryzen 7 2700X, so it will be very interesting to make a performance comparison between them after this review.

AMD continues to bring quality packaging so that we can Unboxing worthy of an enthusiastic user. And it is that the boxes have greatly improved their quality and safety thanks to the use of thick solid cardboard that allows us to store both the heatsink and the processor.

As for the exterior design, it is basically a square box with vertical sliding opening a little smaller than that of the 3900X and with a screenprint on its outer faces based on gray gradients and a great symbol of the Ryzen family to know well that we have In hands. Similarly, we are presented with a photograph of the heatsink fan with its RGB lighting activated and some other information on the bundle.

On the upper side we can see an opening in the central area that allows us to see the CPU directly, or rather the encapsulation of the CPU, although of course, it is protected by a rigid plastic encapsulation. And if we open the box, we will find the heatsink perfectly accommodated in a cardboard mold so that it remains immobile along with the user documentation.

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X exterior and package design

Computex 2019 was the chosen scenario where AMD under the voice of its SEO, Lisa Su, officially unveiled its new line of 3rd generation AMD Ryzen desktop processors, or rather Zen2. Reactions around the world were swift, and in the end the time has come to get these new wonders in our hands that come loaded with new features, and not only in its 7nm FinFET manufacturing process, but also in the controller. memory, controlled I / O and internal instruction processing structure. outperforming the most powerful Intel CPUs like the i9-9900K.

But now we must deal with this 8-core model and a clear successor to the Ryzen 7 2700X. Although we should not forget that there is still a second Ryzen 7 3800X model that increases its TDP due to an improvement in clock frequencies compared to this model, although it is otherwise exactly the same processor.

Without further ado, let's start by talking about its upper face, that is, where we find the CPU encapsulation. And the truth is that in this model we will not have too many surprises in its design, since its IHS is made of copper with a silver coating on which the information concerning the processor is printed. And how could it be otherwise, AMD has chosen to solder the IHS directly to the die to greatly facilitate heat exchange between the interior of the processing cores and the heatsink.

The other way to install the IHS is by contacting the die through thermal paste, just like the one used outside to make contact with the heatsink, but its thermal efficiency is internal and we would be in trouble with such powerful processors like these.. In any case, it is not good news for users who want to delidding the CPU, that is, removing the IHS and applying thermal liquid metal paste to improve cooling.

If we turn the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X around, we find the entire substrate area where the chiplets are installed, although in this case there is only one, and the entire connection interface. As you may already know, these new Zen2 still use the AM4 socket to communicate the CPU with the motherboard, exactly the same as that of previous generations. So all the connection pins will be located in the processor itself with a gold plating to facilitate the exchange of energy at these incredible frequencies.

The mounting system and orientation is perfectly indicated in one corner of the CPU, indicating with a small arrow the direction the CPU should have when installed. In short, this arrow must match the one on the printed motherboard. Recall that none of the four sides of the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X have notches or dies that only support mounting in one direction.

It seems that AMD will keep this type of Socket AM4 at least until 2020, and we consider it a success from the point of view of compatibility. And it is that we will not need to acquire a new motherboard to be able to install the new Ryzen, since we have the same socket and fully compatible chipsets. The outlay of money can be much smaller than carrying out a complete update of our equipment. Of course, we will lose the support with the PCIe 4.0 bus of the new boards, but it is a small price to pay to save us some money.

Heatsink design

We continue to analyze the heatsink of the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, which, like the higher models, is the AMD Wrait Prism, a classic already in Ryzen processors due to its excellent performance despite being a stock heatsink. As for design, nothing has changed about it, not even the size or its manufacturing materials. It would have been good enough if it differed a little from the previous ones to point out that we have a Ryzen 3000, but we did not complain either.

The mounting system is AMD's own, extremely simple, with two lateral claws and a pressure coupling system to keep it fixed. The heatsink of AMD Ryzen 7 3700X can be divided into three well-differentiated parts, the first of which is the fan. It is presented with a 92 mm diameter and transparent propellers to reveal the entire RGB LED lighting ring on its outer perimeter, along with those located on the rotor itself. This system will be compatible with the main lighting technologies of the motherboard manufacturers, being able to synchronize it without problems.

The second part consists of a block made of aluminum provided with two floors, a smaller one located closer to the CPU and a larger one that supports the quick installation system of the fan. This block has a dense finned that allows heat to be exchanged with the environment thanks to the forced flow of air generated by the fan. Finally, in the lower area we have a block built in copper that makes direct contact with the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X IHS. In it, there are four copper heatpipes that are in charge of transferring the heat more quickly to the aluminum block due to its greater heat conductivity.

Without a doubt a heatsink that will give us very good results in this 8-core processor. Its good size and good materials will practically be more than enough for a high-end gaming equipment. Although, if we are going to have it subjected to large processes of continued stress, the temperatures will become high.

Benefits

As we have done with previous processors, and especially in this new generation, we are going to stop for a while to see all the main features it offers us before seeing its real performance . In the review of the 3900X we already explained in detail the novelties of the Zen2 architecture, so we will not repeat them again in this AMD Ryzen 7 3700X.

AMD has used an 8-core, 16-thread processing setup thanks to the use of AMD SMT multicore technology, just like all Ryzen. You will already know that thanks to Infinity Fabric, all instruction management is much faster between main memory and CPU, one of the major shortcomings in the previous generation. This memory controller has been completely redesigned, although it remains in a 12nm process. Supports 128GB DDR4 at 3200MHz in dual channel configuration.

Well, these cores are manufactured under 7nm FinFET lithography and offer a speed of 3.6 GHz of base frequency, and 4.4 GHz in boost mode. Due precisely to this decrease in size of the transistors and restrained frequencies, we will have a TDP of only 65W. Let's remember for example that the 2700X was capable of reaching 4.3 GHz in 8/16 configuration and had a TDP of 105W, so the jump in efficiency has been spectacular. And not only is this, since AMD has shown in its analyzes an improvement in the IPC (instructions per cycle) of 15% compared to the previous generation, a great leap that we will see how it is reflected in our performance tests and in games.

Also a great novelty is its internal structure based on chiplets, which are basically provided with 8 cores and cache memory, in which the manufacturer disables or activates the operating cores of each model. The result here is an 8-core processor, so we only have one chiplet installed.

Finally we are going to review the cache memory configuration, because it is another novelty. In addition, it has shown to increase the performance in games for these processors in a very notable way thanks to having double the capacity. Starting at the lowest level, we have a L1 cache divided into L1I and L1D of 32 KB each, smaller than the previous generation, but 8-way. In the upper tier we have a 4 MB L2 cache, divided into 512 KB blocks for each core. Finally we have a 32 MB L3 cache, which is included in the chiplet that we have spoken divided into blocks of 16 MB for 4 cores.

As in the rest of the new generation processors, none of them includes integrated graphics. So we still don't have APUs for this new generation Zen2. And as you may already know, another of the great innovations is the native support of the PCIe 4.0 bus, also available on the motherboards with AMD X570 chipset, of which the manufacturer ensures that there will be a total of 57 models available for its processors spread across multiple manufacturers.

Test bench and performance tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Base plate:	X570 Aorus Master
RAM:	16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB Royal DDR4 3600MHz
Heatsink	Stock
HDD	Corsair MP500 + AORUS M.2 1TB NVME PCI Express 4.0
Graphic card	Nvidia RTX 2060 Founders Edition
Power supply	Corsair AX860i.

To check the stability of AMD Ryzen 9 3900X processor in stock values. The motherboard we have stressed with Prime 95 Custom and air cooling. The graph that we have used is an Nvidia RTX 2060 in its reference version, without further delay, let's see the results obtained in our tests.

Benchmarks (Synthetic tests)

We have tested performance with the enthusiastic platform and the previous generation. Will your purchase be worth it?

• Cinebench R15 (CPU Score).Aida64.3dMARK Fire Strike.VRMARKPCMark 8Blender Robot.

Game testing

Overclocking

Like the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, the processor does not allow overclocking from the AMD Ryzen Master or from the BIOS (Currently). We can only adjust the voltage, to make it undervolting. In the event that we raise the multiplier to improve the frequency, the equipment will freeze and restart.

In this video we already clearly explain the importance of the motherboard to have quality VRM to get the most out of it. With Ryzen 3000 it is super important to have a good motherboard and a good heatsink to maintain good temperatures and frequencies of our PC.

We are sure that this automatic overclocking measure, for less expert users, will take it as a positive. While the old rockers will not like it as much, since Intel processors give enough hours of cluttering looking for the frequency limit of each processor.

NVMe PCI Express 4.0 performance with AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

The new motherboards with X570 chipset incorporates several new features. One of them and one of the most interesting is the incorporation of SLOT NVME compatible with PCIE Express 4.0 that supports extremely high sequential read and write rates.

To test the performance of this platform and how Aorus has sent us an AORUS NVMe Gen4 SSD 1 TB with 4400 MB / s writing , a sequential reading of 5000 MB / s and a beautiful copper heatsink that covers both sides of the tablet. Securing us up to 1800 TBW of writing. We have taken the opportunity to test it with this processor, we will not roll up anymore and I leave you the results we have obtained:

As you can see, the results are very close to what Aorus promises. We highly doubt that a normal user for everyday use: office automation, web browsing or gaming notices the difference compared to an NVMe PCI Express 3.0. Although we will do tests later and we will remove you from doubts.

Consumption and temperature

Well, we come across more than decent temperatures with the reference heatsink. We have 3 7ºC at rest and 45ºC at maximum power. Taking into account that the processor gives the maximum it can offer (at least for the moment) we think that it is very good. Also keep in mind that the heatsink in this case is very quiet and we don't need to buy any additional ones.

In the event that the temperatures increase to more than 95 ºC, the equipment will restart automatically to avoid the degradation of the processor. It is a good measure but somewhat drastic on the part of AMD.

We have used Prime95 in its large version to test both temperatures and consumption. All Watts readings have been measured from the wall socket.

Taking into account the above. We have a consumption of 70 W at rest and 295 W at maximum performance. We see a lot of difference with other Ryzen that we have tested, but it must also be said that the frequencies are much higher than the previous models. In this case it leaves us a tad cold, and more considering that we are with a GPU with a very good power / consumption ratio.

Final words and conclusion about AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Well AMD has made a very competent and multipurpose processor. The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X has eight cores, 16 threads of execution thanks to SMT technology, a base frequency of 3.6 GHz that goes up to 4.4 GHz (200 MHz less than the Ryzen 9 3900X), has 64 MB of cache and a TDP of 65 W.

At the performance level we have seen a very good performance against its older brother and Intel's flagship : i9-9900k. In Gaming the situation is very equal, where in 4K resolution, the GPU is more demanding than the CPU. But when we see its performance in benchmark it takes a lot of chest.

In the refrigeration section, we really liked its temperatures with the stock sink. We believe that it is not worth acquiring a better heatsink, since at the moment it does not allow to do overeclock. At all times it works at 4400 MHz and controls the frequency very well. Good job AMD!

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The consumption is higher than previous generations and this is because the frequency it reaches is 4.4 GHz. It is already more than enough to move any AMD Radeon RX 5700 / RX 5700 XT or RTX mid / high range graphics card..

Is it worth exchanging my Ryzen 2700X for this Ryzen 3700X? If you do not like to overclock, we believe that it can compensate you for the change, but if you have already uploaded your processor to 4.2 GHz, we can more clearly see the jump to Ryzen 9. In the case of buying a new PC, we recommend it 100% and we will insert it in all our configurations.

Its price in Spain will be around 362 euros, although its price in dollars is 385 dollars. It always goes up a little bit more due to tariffs. What do you think of this processor? Which of the new Ryzen do you find more interesting?

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
- POWER	- CAN NOT DO OVERCLOCK MANUAL
- IDEAL FOR MULTITAREA	- HIGH STARTING PRICE BUT RECOMMENDED TO BUY A NEW PC
- VERY GOOD TEMPERATURES
- SERIAL HIGH FREQUENCIES
- MUCH MORE CACHE AND WITH X570 PLATE WE CAN GET ALL THE POTENTIAL FROM THE PLATFORM

The Professional Review team awards you the gold medal and recommended product:

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

YIELD YIELD - 95%

MULTI-THREAD PERFORMANCE - 90%

OVERCLOCK - 80%

TEMPERATURES - 85%

CONSUMPTION - 80%

PRICE - 88%

86%

Possibly one of AMD's most offset processors. Ideal for gaming, multitasking, video rendering, and use as a 4x4 device. Its good temperatures and 3600 MHz memory support with a single click are very welcome news.