AMD Zen 3 Ryzen deep dive review: 5950X, 5900X, 5800X and 5600X tested

When AMD announced that its new Zen 3 core was a ground-up redesign and offered complete performance leadership, we had to ask them to confirm if that's exactly what they said. Despite being less than 10% the size of Intel, and very close to folding as a company in 2015, the bets that AMD made in that timeframe with its next generation Zen microarchitecture and Ryzen designs are now coming to fruition. Zen 3 and the new Ryzen 5000 processors, for the desktop market, are the realization of those goals: not only performance per watt and performance per dollar leaders, but absolute performance leadership in every segment. We've gone into the new microarchitecture and tested the new processors. AMD is the new king, and we have the data to show it.

AMD didn't lie - these new processors are insanely good, and insanely good value, to boot. If you're building a new PC today - AMD is the only logical choice. What a time to be alive.