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 a RTX 2080 Ti.
Gaming: Final Fantasy XV
Upon arriving to PC earlier this, Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition was given a graphical overhaul as it was ported over from console, fruits of their successful partnership with NVIDIA, with hardly any hint of the troubles during Final Fantasy XV's original production and development.
In preparation for the launch, Square Enix opted to release a standalone benchmark that they have since updated. Using the Final Fantasy XV standalone benchmark gives us a lengthy standardized sequence to record, although it should be noted that its heavy use of NVIDIA technology means that the Maximum setting has problems - it renders items off screen. To get around this, we use the standard preset which does not have these issues.
Square Enix has patched the benchmark with custom graphics settings and bugfixes to be much more accurate in profiling in-game performance and graphical options. For our testing, we run the standard benchmark with a FRAPs overlay, taking a 6 minute recording of the test.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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PeterCollier - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
Where are the AMD APUs?PeterCollier - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
0The_Assimilator - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
Please shut up.b0rnslippy - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
Why? not all of them are blind Ian supporters. Just saying it like we seeing it.Teckk - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
You think this article is biased towards Intel?mrvco - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
The narrative seems forced in lieue of current and price competitive offerings from Intel. Hard to blame AT though, must publish. Regardless, AMD is absolutely ballin'.brunis.dk - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
Unbelievable.. this chip is a quarter of the price and is a fucking steel and totally embarrasses Intel's best .. and he thinks its Intel biased, what the actual F?Spunjji - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
Yeah, this "logic" isn't working out at all.I'm hard pressed to tell whether these comments are from actual dyed-in-the-wool AMD fanboys or a few Intel nuggets doing their best impersonations of how they think one would behave. 🤔
PeterCollier - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
Socrates said it's the mark of an informed mind to entertain a thought without rejecting it.It's the mark of an uninformed mind to be unable to entertain an opposing viewpoint and instead dismiss it as trolling.
FreckledTrout - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
Those trolls in 400BC were a pain writting stuff in stone and all.