AMD may have unveiled its new line of Ryzen 3000 desktop processors at Computex, but it's got a lot more to tell us before the hardware launches officially on July 7. The next big show ahead of us is E3 in early June and one of the biggest details we'll learn about Ryzen 3000 chips there is how well they overclock.
AMD previously announced it would be holding a major conference at E3 known as its Next Horizon Gaming event, where it would showcase the entire product line up of the RX 5000 series of graphics cards. However, Ryzen 3000 will also be a major talking point because it will be the first CPU generation from AMD in almost 15 years that will be competitive with Intel on gaming at the top end of the pricing scale — and will likely even undercut it too.
The new chiplet design in the Zen 2 cores have greater IPC, improved clock speeds, and much improved memory latency thanks to a doubled cache size and that should all equate to big performance at lower wattages than the Intel competition. That could also mean there's plenty of room for overclocking.
When PCGamesN asked AMD's Erin Maiorino about this potential at Computex, it was told "No, no comment on that just yet… in ten days, we should be pretty good."
That sounds a lot like E3 to us and we are intrigued to see what the new CPUs and x570 chipset can do. The latter is the most power-hungry chipset we've seen in a few years, requiring active fan cooling to keep a handle on its 11-15w TDP. That's why we've seen a few monoblock water-cooled motherboards already, though those can be inordinately expensive.
Do you think Ryzen 3000 will be a good overclocking chip line?
