AMD today announced its Ryzen 3000XT mainstream desktop processors with higher max boost clocks, and hence higher performance. Alongside these, Team Red also announced A520 chipset, and StoreMI 2.0.
Today, AMD is announcing a refresh of its Ryzen 3000 series mainstream desktop Matisse CPUs and is calling them the 3000XT processors. These are compatible with existing AM4 motherboards, though you might need a BIOS update if you wish to upgrade an older Ryzen CPU.
AMD has often used the ‘XT’ moniker on its GPUs but this is the first time the company will be using it on its CPUs. XT is used to indicate higher performance compared to its non-XT counterpart. This higher performance can be achieved thanks to higher maximum boost clocks that the new models have, but architecturally, the core is still Zen 2.
