Once the scrappy underdog to Intel in the CPU space, AMD’s latest Ryzen 5000 series processor proves that the company can attract the attention of enthusiast gamers. AMD has shown that gamers can achieve a nearly two-fold improvement in performance by upgrading from the original Zen architecture on the Ryzen 7 1800X processor from four years ago to today’s Zen 3 platform on the Ryzen 5000 series — in particular, the Ryzen 7 5800X processor. In its review, publication Golem.de reported that performance of the latest Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 CPU is 89% better than the original Zen architecture that was released four years ago, according to Wccftech. This should provide incentive for Team Red gamers looking to upgrade this year, provided they can find a Ryzen in stock. This latest benchmark result is on top of the early glowing reviews for AMD’s latest silicon family. Reviewers who compared AMD’s latest silicon to the Intel competition found that the 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X matched the performance of Intel’s 18-core Core i9-10980XE in some key benchmarks. In gaming, even scaling down to a Ryzen 7 5800X will get you better performance across a number of titles compared to Intel’s Core i9-10900K. When…