You can now get the Ryzen 9 3900X for around $420, so the question is … you pay an extra $80 for a 5% gain with the Ryzen 9 3900XT ($499)?
Taken from TPU … AMD recently announced its 3rd Gen Ryzen 3000XT “Matisse Refresh” processors, with July 7 availability, and it appears like samples of the processors already hit leaky taps on the web. TUM_APISAK discovered a Geekbench 5.1 submission of a Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-core/24-thread processor sample. The processor is paired with a GIGABYTE X570 AORUS Master motherboard and 16 GB of dual-channel DDR4-3600 memory. The 3900XT scores 10945 points in the multi-threaded test, and 1324 points in the single-threaded one; both of which are roughly 5% higher than those of the 3900X. The Geekbench score is indicative that AMD wants to slim the already single-digit percentage gaming performance gap with the Core i9-10900K, and extending its multi-threaded productivity performance lead on account of more cores/threads.
Source: TPU , TUM_APISAK, Notebookcheck, Geekbench