AMD RYZEN 3 REVIEW - Should you buy one?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,093 words · ~5 min read
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depending who you ask it can take a lot of effort and a lot of time to get to
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three but now we know that at least it's
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possible congratulations AMD on making
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it to three even if you had to count
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backwards from seven and skip a few numbers in between meet ryzen 3 the
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entry level F you to the team in
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blue
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description so if you've been living under a rock for the past 6 months like
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I did that one time this release might have snuck up on you it's okay we get it
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money doesn't grow on trees you got bills to pay and mouths to feed my right
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well AMD figures there's a lot of Truth to that and ryzen 3 the Final piece of
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the puzzle comes in at 110 to
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$130 and if you look at what Intel's done with kbl lak's Pentium lineup it is
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clear that they saw this coming and felt
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like they needed to react where Pentium CPUs have been two core two thread only
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Affairs for several Generations now the
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CPUs that compete with ryzen 3 on pricing are going to For Thread using
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hyperthreading for the first time blurring the lines between Pentium and
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corai 3 which uh oh crap I guess I'm
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finally going to have to redo this three-year-old video but is Intel's
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response even adequate ryen 3 very
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pointedly doesn't have simultaneous
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multi-threading but is instead a fullon
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quad core CPU made up of two of AMD's
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Zen compute complexes or
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CCX this means that while it has only
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half the cash of its ryzen 5 and ryzen 7
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cousins it has all the same features
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that they provide like CMI Precision
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boost and xfr though since AMD is still
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disabling cor symmetrically cash latency
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is technically higher than if they had used a single CCX with four cores and as
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we showed in our ryzen 5 review while this method saves AMD some cost it also
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reduces the amount of total bandwidth available to the cash so the question
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becomes will we see an appreciable loss
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in performance and if so can ryzen 3
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keep up with the best team blue has to
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offer within this price bracket well AMD considers the closest
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price competitor to the ryzen 3300x to
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be the core I 37300 and the ryzen 3200 to be the core
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i37100 and from a pricing standpoint
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this is roughly correct as for performance though AMD actually managed
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to pull out a solid win thanks to ryzen
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3 multi-threaded performance especially
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at these prices consistently in nearly
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every area that doesn't involve purely single-threaded performance both ryzen 3
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chips handly beat out both of their
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Intel competitors unfortunately for AMD that
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doesn't include most current games where dual core core i3s are able to pull off
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higher frame rates but with that said our our use of a clean Windows image for
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our testing doesn't tell us how background processes might affect gaming
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performance on a system that actually
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has just two cores versus four true
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cores but even ignoring that when you crunch the numbers and look at the value
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proposition ryzen 3 makes a lot of sense
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not only does the 1300x never fall
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behind its team blue rival the rise 3 1200 also makes a great showing it is
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certainly looking very bright overall for ryzen 3 when you look at the big
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picture and there's yet another trick uprise and sleeve and that's
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overclocking unlike Intel whose CPUs
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probably have a ton of Headroom in them but are locked for overclocking unless
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you shell out for a K series ryzen 3 is
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fully unlocked just like the ryzen 5 and ryzen 7 lineups and when you you spend a
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little bit of time doing some tuning gaming performance comes much closer to
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team blue not to mention that it also further increases AMD's lead in
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multi-threaded non-gaming benchmarks our
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ryzen 3200 managed to overclock past the
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1300 X's stock clocks making it an incredible value at this speed and this
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price though as always with overclocking your mileage may vary and some
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additional in mment is required for overclocking you'll need an overclocking
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compatible motherboard chip set and a decent cooler the W stealth included in
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the box is fine but it's not enough to
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handle a voltage bump big enough to comfortably overclock it all the way to
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the Mac so be prepared to spend a little more if you want to squeeze some extra
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juice out of your ryzen 3 should you pick one up and pick one up
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you probably should the platforms matured a lot and ryzen 3 rips back the
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budget Market that AMD has come to rely on since sandybridge and while like the
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rest of its family it doesn't exactly dominate it throws a big old Randy
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