AMD’s new Ryzen 3 chipsets come with 16 cores, 32 threads

A day after Microsoft announced that it is upcoming gaming console codenamed ‘Project Scarlett’ will be powered by AMD high performance custom SoC, US based semiconductor company made some key announcements in it’s Next Horizon event on the sidelines of E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) in Los Angeles.

The show stealers included the new Ryzen 9-3950X, which is the first desktop chip to offer 16 cores and 32 threads and 4.7GHz turbo boost.

It is followed by Ryzen 9- 3900X desktop chip, which offers 12 cores and 24 threads and AMD claims it is comparable to Intel’s flagship Core i9 9900K chip in terms of 1080p gaming performance while being 58% more energy efficient at the same time.