The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza
by Dr. Ian Cutress on May 7, 2020 9:00 AM EST*We are currently in the middle of revisiting our CPU gaming benchmarks, but the new suite was not ready in time for this review. We plan to add in some new games (Borderland 3, Gears Tactics) and also upgrade our gaming GPU to an RTX 2080 Ti.
Gaming: World of Tanks enCore
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for a new and unreleased graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine will implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine run optimally on their system.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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psychobriggsy - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
They'll be based off on Renoir. So 8 cores, 16 threads, with 8MB L3.In mobile, Renoir's GPU has outperformed the predecessor, despite having fewer CUs, because of improved clocks. I'd say it's likely desktop Renoir will outperform the predecessor in graphics at the same price point, but not dramatically.
Namisecond - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
So, if we go by mobile Renoir, a max of 8 CU graphics?lightningz71 - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
Yes, but, it was trivially easy to run the 3400g gpu at 1600mhz and run the ram at 3400/3600 speeds. Assuming that the gpu of the “4400” apu gets 8CUs at about 2000 MHz, it will have less total processing power. Assuming that it can’t typically run the ram much faster than 4000 speeds, it won’t have much extra bandwidth. My best guesstimate is that it performs marginally better than the 3400 in gpu limited tasks purely for having better ram support and less processor memory contention due to the larger L3. However, games are rarely entirely gpu limited and having the much improved zen 2 cores will make things markedly better.I base a lot of that on the benchmarks of the 3500u vs the 4500u, which are very roughly comparable in resources. The 4500u is consistently faster, though not by much.
Spunjji - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
I'm expecting much the same as what you outlined here. A significant improvement over the 3400G in CPU performance and gaming for stock configurations, but with limited gains over overclocked systems.Koenig168 - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
Hmmm ... the 3300X is doing better than I thought it would. Would appreciate some benchmarks with games that benefit from more cores/threads. Great article. I find the part about the difference between 3100 and 3300X particularly interesting (I had wondered about the difference between the two CPUs to warrant the price difference).EdgeOfDetroit - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
Do those games actually exist?eastcoast_pete - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
The 3300 is a fully functional 4 cores on one die, the 3100 is 2 cores on two (otherwise defective) die. Thus, the 3100 needs to use the interconnect a lot, which slows it down a bit.extide - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
No, it's still a single die, just spread across both CCX in that die instead of just one.extide - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
(But otherwise yes you're correct because even within a single CCD the cores must travel out to the IO die and back to get to the other CCX)Deicidium369 - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
Suggest 3 or 4