The company has been working on a very ambitious development roadmap for their CPU designs, and Zen 2 is the company's first chance to flex their muscles and do a full iteration on their CPU core design. Most of the time my videos are 4K time lapses, with some light editing and color grading. The 8400 performed much better again, with a 31.7% advantage in average FPS up to 138.5 average. Perhaps Tomb Raider’s relatively positive reaction to high thread counts is why the 2697 v2 averaged 100.2 FPS, still the worst of our four $200 CPUs but not so far behind the 1920X this time.We didn’t test overclocking on Threadripper parts this time around because it’s only become more pointless. The 9900K and 3700X aren’t too distant from the 1920X… That shouldn't be too much of a concern for users without PCIe 4.0 devices or SSD RAID storage arrays that hang off the chipset. According to the company, even Intel's pricey Skylake high-end desktop (HEDT) processor, the Core i9-9920X, isn't entirely out of the line of fire of the Ryzen 3900X.As a quick recap to where things stand, compared to its immediate predecessor, Intel’s Coffee Lake Refresh received quite a bump in terms of both clock frequencies as well core counts. 1% and .1% lows are abysmal for every CPU in this test, but the averages are still comparable. The 3900X is also significantly faster at 3.8GHz base versus 3.5GHz base, not to mention boost clock deltas. Based on 104,734 user benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and the Ryzen TR 1920X, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 1,256 CPUs. It’s a modern CPU, it works with a vast array of AM4 motherboards, and it costs the same as the 1920X. With a boost clock of 4.4GHz and a base clock of 3.6GHz, the part should still be notably faster than the Ryzen 2700X, yet AMD has managed to make this a 65W TDP part which is going to make for some interesting analysis.Interestingly, while AMD has increased the core-count by 50% over its previous flagship processor, it has managed to keep the TDP to the same 105W as on the Ryzen 2700X. The 1920X is what we’re really here for, and that one -- despite equivalent core count with the 3900X -- allows the 3900X stock CPU a lead of 21%. The 3600, also $200, and the i5-8400, nearing $200, are both bad enough at this test to not even be considered for someone focusing on using applications like this. Even on first gen Threadripper CPUs, overclocking really only offered an advantage in heavy all-core workloads, with the achievable all-core OC generally falling short of the stock single-core boost.