# The 19 Best AMD Processors of All Time

> Some of these chips were budget overclocking favourites, others reshaped the server market, and a few still sit in gaming rigs today. Three decades of silicon, one vote at a time.

*By YPB Team · Published November 10, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-19-best-amd-processors-of-all-time*

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1. **Ryzen 7 5800X3D** — score 1000/1000
   An eight-core AM4 processor from April 2022 and the first desktop chip with AMD's stacked 3D V-Cache, totalling 96 MB of L3.
2. **Ryzen 7 1800X** — score 777/1000
   The March 2017 eight-core, 16-thread flagship that debuted the Zen architecture on the AM4 socket.
3. **Ryzen 5 1600** — score 777/1000
   A six-core, 12-thread Zen processor released in April 2017 at a launch price of $219.
4. **Athlon XP** — score 678/1000
   The 2001 successor to the Athlon, introducing PR ratings such as 2500+; the Barton-core 2500+ was widely overclocked to 3200+ speeds.
5. **Athlon** — score 555/1000
   AMD's 1999 K7 processor, which in March 2000 became the first x86 desktop CPU sold at 1 GHz.
6. **Opteron** — score 555/1000
   AMD's server processor that debuted AMD64 in April 2003, with integrated HyperTransport links between processors.
7. **Phenom II X4** — score 555/1000
   A 45 nm quad-core line from 2009; Black Edition models such as the 955 had unlocked multipliers.
8. **Ryzen 7 7800X3D** — score 555/1000
   An eight-core AM5 processor with 96 MB of L3 cache via 3D V-Cache, released in April 2023.
9. **Athlon 64** — score 555/1000
   Launched in 2003 as the first 64-bit x86 desktop processor, with an on-die memory controller.
10. **Threadripper 3990X** — score 555/1000
   A 64-core, 128-thread Zen 2 workstation processor launched in February 2020 at $3,990.
11. **Am386** — score 0/1000
   AMD's clone of Intel's 386, sold from 1991, whose Am386DX-40 out-clocked Intel's fastest 33 MHz 386.
12. **Athlon 64 X2** — score 0/1000
   AMD's first dual-core desktop processor line, launched in 2005 with both cores on a single die.
13. **Threadripper 1950X** — score 0/1000
   A 16-core, 32-thread HEDT processor from August 2017 that opened AMD's Threadripper line on the TR4 socket.
14. **Ryzen 5 3600** — score 0/1000
   A 2019 six-core Zen 2 processor on 7 nm, sold at $199 with a bundled Wraith Stealth cooler.
15. **EPYC Rome** — score 0/1000
   AMD's second-generation EPYC server processors from August 2019, offering up to 64 Zen 2 cores per socket in a chiplet design.
16. **Ryzen 9 7950X** — score 0/1000
   The 16-core Zen 4 flagship that launched the AM5 socket and DDR5 support in September 2022.
17. **K6-2** — score 0/1000
   A 1998 Socket 7 processor that introduced AMD's 3DNow! SIMD instructions and powered many budget PCs.
18. **Phenom II X6** — score 0/1000
   AMD's 2010 six-core desktop processors, led by the 1090T and 1100T, with Turbo Core boosting.
19. **Ryzen 7 9800X3D** — score 0/1000
   A November 2024 Zen 5 eight-core processor that put the 3D V-Cache die beneath the CPU cores, allowing higher clocks and overclocking.

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