Scan 3XS Gamer RTX

AMD and Nvidia strike agai delivering stunning all-round performance and 1440p gaming for a great price

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICE £1,458 (£1,750 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/316scan2 Two months ago, Scan gave us a taste of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080’s power by partnering it with an Intel Core i7-10700 in the identically named 3XS Gamer RTX (see issue 314, p50). This month see sees a double substitution, with the RTX 3070 earning its chance to shine along side AMD’s Ryzen 75800X – part of the new range of Ryzen 5000 desktop chips we cover in the cover in review of the Scan workstation on p52. This has two plus points. First, a price drop from £2,000 to £1,750. Second, far superior multi threaded performance, and that’s despite the i7-10700 and Ryzen 7 5800X both having eight cores and 16 threads. The prime evidence is benchmark scores: the AMD system’s overall score…

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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2021

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