AMD Ryzen 3000XT review — Flexing because you can

Motion is relative. That’s true of objects in space, and it also applies to the companies that make computer processors. We can tell that AMD is moving ahead because we have the stalling Intel as a comparison. But you can also look at how AMD is moving now compared to the way it carried itself in the past to find evidence of a newly acquired swagger. And the new AMD Ryzen 3000XT CPUs are the result of that.

The Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT, and the Ryzen 5 3600XT exist because they can. AMD is no longer trying to catch up to Intel, and that means the company now has the bandwidth to quickly answer any potential products from its competitor. These new chips don’t really change the dynamics in the battle between AMD and Intel. The reasons to buy one processor over the other are still the same as they were before. What’s changed is AMD. It wants to keep Intel on its heels while controlling the narrative, and it’s succeeding at that.