I had given up on AMD… until today - Ryzen 9 3900X & Ryzen 7 3700X Review
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HN mostly references it for launch benchmarks comparing Ryzen and Intel, rather than recommending it outright.
What it is
Linus Tech Tips reviews AMD's third-gen Ryzen 9 3900X and Ryzen 7 3700X at launch, testing gaming and workstation performance against Intel.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2019 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Cites aristophenes · 2019-07 · on “The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising the Bar”
The new Ryzens perform very well, it's even more impressive considering that the Intel chips did not have the Fallout/Zombieload mitigations applied[1], that come with significant performance degradations. LinusTechTips, that used to somewhat favor Intel, did their benchmarks with current patches to everything: [this video] [1] [LINK]
Cites rwmj · 2019-08 · on “AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range”
If you don't mind watching a video, Linus Tech Tips compared Ryzen 7 & 9 with similar (but more expensive) consumer Intel chips and Ryzen came ahead in basically all tests except one related to high-end gaming: [this video] Price/performance of the AMD chips was ahead in everything.
Critical Thorrez · 2019-09 · on “Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4”
You're talking about this video: [this video] ? On CSGO, AMD wins on average FPS, ties on 95%, and loses on 99%. On Rainbow Six: Seige, AMD wins on average FPS, but loses on 95% and 99%. On the other 3 games (Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Metro: Exodus, and Battlefield V), Intel wins all 3 categories. So overall, Intel still wins.