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: Strange Brigade (DX12, Vulkan)
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark which offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. AMD has boasted previously that Strange Brigade is part of its Vulkan API implementation offering scalability for AMD multi-graphics card configurations.
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.