The AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 3 1200 CPU Review: Zen on a Budget
by Ian Cutress on July 27, 2017 9:30 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- AMD
- Zen
- Ryzen
- Ryzen 3
- Ryzen 3 1300X
- Ryzen 3 1200
Shadow of Mordor
The next title in our testing is a battle of system performance with the open world action-adventure title, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (SoM for short). Produced by Monolith and using the LithTech Jupiter EX engine and numerous detail add-ons, SoM goes for detail and complexity. The main story itself was written by the same writer as Red Dead Redemption, and it received Zero Punctuation’s Game of The Year in 2014.
A 2014 game is fairly old to be testing now, however SoM has a stable code and player base, and can still stress a PC down to the ones and zeroes. At the time, SoM was unique, offering a dynamic screen resolution setting allowing users to render at high resolutions that are then scaled down to the monitor. This form of natural oversampling was designed to let the user experience a truer vision of what the developers wanted, assuming you had the graphics hardware to power it but had a sub-4K monitor.
The title has an in-game benchmark, for which we run with an automated script implement the graphics settings, select the benchmark, and parse the frame-time output which is dumped on the drive. The graphics settings include standard options such as Graphical Quality, Lighting, Mesh, Motion Blur, Shadow Quality, Textures, Vegetation Range, Depth of Field, Transparency and Tessellation. There are standard presets as well.
We run the benchmark at 1080p and a native 4K, using our 4K monitors, at the Ultra preset. Results are averaged across four runs and we report the average frame rate, 99th percentile frame rate, and time under analysis.
For all our results, we show the average frame rate at 1080p first. Mouse over the other graphs underneath to see 99th percentile frame rates and 'Time Under' graphs, as well as results for other resolutions. All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
MSI GTX 1080 Gaming 8G Performance
1080p
4K
ASUS GTX 1060 Strix 6GB Performance
1080p
4K
Sapphire R9 Fury 4GB Performance
1080p
4K
Sapphire RX 480 8GB Performance
1080p
4K
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CSM 2 - Friday, July 28, 2017 - link
1200 with A320 + GTX 1050ti perfect family pc or sff media pc I'm very impressed. Thanks AMD for some competitionslickr - Sunday, July 30, 2017 - link
They actually are releasing their APU's at the same time, so if you want cpu+igp you can buy their new APU's.MajGenRelativity - Thursday, July 27, 2017 - link
Could you add an overclocking section? I've been seeing the 1200 overclock well, and that could definitely close the gap with the i3'sIan Cutress - Thursday, July 27, 2017 - link
In the plans, maybe Pt 2 next week after finishing the 1300X.T1beriu - Thursday, July 27, 2017 - link
Yey!AndrewJacksonZA - Thursday, July 27, 2017 - link
"M." You're missing an "m" at the end of your username, T1beriu. ;-)MajGenRelativity - Thursday, July 27, 2017 - link
Awesome! I think overclocking is one of Ryzen's strong points, and it doesn't seem to drive up power consumption too much, because you can hit good clocks on stock voltageOxford Guy - Thursday, July 27, 2017 - link
Or, maybe we could see what happens without being kneecapped by the absurd JEDEC RAM setting.venkatsrin - Thursday, July 27, 2017 - link
Thanks, can only second this request! Pls, pretty pls, do include the overclocked benchmarks for gaming not only with high-end cards like GTX1080 but also the RX470 that you have in there currently.QinX - Thursday, July 27, 2017 - link
The Blender graph seems to be wrong for the 1300X, beating the 1500x by 500 seconds seems excessive.