we all know the drill by now a new flagship CPU launches everybody gets
hyped and then the lower end stuff comes out and nobody cares and i get it
quad-core processors that lag behind the competition aren't exactly headline news
but stop because this time everyone should care because AMD's zen 2
architecture outperforms Intel's coffee lake clock for clock and not only that
but today's new ryzen 3 chips the 3
13 run more threads than the competition
with higher clock speeds to boot
and that's not even all that AMD is
doing to dick over Intel so stick around because it's going to be
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no my friends the biggest move here is the price the ryzen 3 3100 at 100 us
dollars is about 20 bucks more than an Intel 9100f and looks to be a steal of a
deal for anyone who's looking to put together a budget gaming or content
creation rig a secondary rig or a first time build thanks to its extra threads
and affordable price meanwhile at just 20 dollars more and 30 dollars less than
the core i5 9400f that it competes with the ryzen 3 300x
is maybe even more interesting now on paper it doesn't actually seem that
different from the 3100 and while it has more threads than the core i5 it
competes with it's actually got fewer physical cores four versus six and while
it has more threads than the core i5 it's got fewer cores but as it turns out
there's a big differentiating factor the 3300x uses a single ccx layout compared
to the 3100s to ccx layout now if you're not too familiar with ccx's and their
importance don't worry about it basically what it means is better
performance because it reduces the amount of time that the cores have to
wait to talk to each other that's really important for modern games and render
tasks that might take advantage of four or more threads enough talk though our
benches were equipped with ddr4 3600 memory across the board fresh installs
of Windows and the latest patches available to make things as fair as they
can be and right away boy do we see what a difference zen 2 makes for gaming
compared to our zen plus ryzen 5 3400g
frame rates are anywhere from 20 to 60 percent higher than AMD's previous
budget offering king Intel's core i5 9400f does pull ahead by a few frames in
a couple of cases but overall it seems pretty comparable but remember guys this
is at over 30 dollars more and the good news for team red keeps
coming even within AMD's own lineup 3rd
gen ryzen 3 ends up being disruptive for
just a machine that's just for gaming on a budget man it's it's hard to convince
me to spend another 50 to 80 dollars on a ryzen 5 3600 over one of these new
ryzen 3's like wow
for productivity once again the new ryzen 3 is absolutely embarrassed the
last gen 3400g with a 25 higher
cinebench score and a clean 15 to 20
minutes shaved off the mozilla firefox compile time and the 3100 consistently
performs on par with even the more expensive core i5 even in heavily
threaded workloads it is worth noting that here at least the extra budget for
a ryzen 5 makes it a much better value for content creators though at least in
my opinion compared to either the new ryzen 3s or team blues current offerings
but lots of people don't care about that and only upgrade their computers for gaming
so we're gonna try something a little different today the core i7 7700k still
goes for as much as 250 to 300 on ebay
thanks to its reputation as a great high FPS gaming CPU incidentally it matches
the four core eight thread layout on our new ryzen 3s and yet the gaming
experience with these new ryzen chips manages to be in comparable territory
for around a hundred dollars the ryzen 3 3 100 is typically
within 80 percent of the core i7's performance level and the 3300x managed
to stay essentially on par and this is at a lower rated power consumption and
then making matters even better for AMD productivity tells us the same story
ladies and gentlemen this is what it used to feel like this is what we used
to see after two and a half years of CPU innovation feels good doesn't it both of
the new chips ran cooler on our aio water cooled bench than the ryzen 5 3600
but something to watch out for is that despite the identical 65 watt ratings
it's clear that the 3300x outputs more heat and draws more power than its
little cousin at nearly 70 watts peak that means that while the box cooler
easily handles the 3100 you may need slightly better cooling if you want to
max out the boost clock on the 3300x to be clear though i'm talking about
upgrading to an inexpensive aftermarket heat sink not a pricey water cooler you
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then for budget gamers who plan to use a dedicated graphics card these are some
seriously potent little cpus and the news gets even better alongside these
new chips comes the announcement of the b550 chipset which is going to allow
motherboards with not only full PCIe gen
4 on the CPU lanes but also bifurcation
so that means we're going to see multi-GPU operation by splitting the
primary 16x slot into two 8x slots for
the first time on a budget chipset it even uses less power than the outgoing
x470 does meaning that it no longer needs active cooling i am expecting our
holiday buyers guides this year are going to have some very good things in
store the only question left then is which 3rd gen budget AMD CPU to buy at
just 20 dollars more than the ryzen 3 3100 the ryzen 3 300x takes the crown
for me and twenty dollars for what is essentially a core i7 7700k without the
overclocking headroom is a breathtaking concept and it seems like unless Intel's
10th gen processors significantly improve performance or slash their
pricing AMD has now got the very high
end the not quite as high end mobile and
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