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: Ashes Classic (DX12)
Seen as the holy child of DirectX12, Ashes of the Singularity (AoTS, or just Ashes) has been the first title to actively go explore as many of the DirectX12 features as it possibly can. Stardock, the developer behind the Nitrous engine which powers the game, has ensured that the real-time strategy title takes advantage of multiple cores and multiple graphics cards, in as many configurations as possible.
As a real-time strategy title, Ashes is all about responsiveness during both wide open shots but also concentrated battles. With DirectX12 at the helm, the ability to implement more draw calls per second allows the engine to work with substantial unit depth and effects that other RTS titles had to rely on combined draw calls to achieve, making some combined unit structures ultimately very rigid.
Stardock clearly understand the importance of an in-game benchmark, ensuring that such a tool was available and capable from day one, especially with all the additional DX12 features used and being able to characterize how they affected the title for the developer was important. The in-game benchmark performs a four minute fixed seed battle environment with a variety of shots, and outputs a vast amount of data to analyze.
For our benchmark, we run Ashes Classic: an older version of the game before the Escalation update. The reason for this is that this is easier to automate, without a splash screen, but still has a strong visual fidelity to test.
Ashes has dropdown options for MSAA, Light Quality, Object Quality, Shading Samples, Shadow Quality, Textures, and separate options for the terrain. There are several presents, from Very Low to Extreme: we run our benchmarks at the above settings, and take the frame-time output for our average and percentile numbers.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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PeterCollier - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
I'm expressing my informed opinion, what's your issue?Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
informed opinion ?? yea rightDeicidium369 - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
Don't mind Korguz - he never offers anything to the conversation... the is a hard core AMD shill who thinks he makes his point by calling other people Intel shills. He is a bit creepy - he will follow you on multiple forums...Just ignore him - he has nothing.
Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
and you can also ignore Deicidium369, he cant get is OWN personal facts straight, and also gives false information on another site, so anything he says are lies, and BS calls me a hardcore amd shill, but yet, says NOTHING positive about amd, but praises intel like a god, go figure" He is a bit creepy - he will follow you on multiple forums... " FYI there are others that know about your other post that are full of mis information, and call you out on it to, and your response, just like here, name calling, insults, and condescending remarks, this is why you were banned from tom's, was it not ?
Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
" Just ignore him - he has nothing. " oh i do, do " ?take a look that these 2 pics here :
in the 1st pic, he states he retired @ 28, 20 years ago( year 2000 ), then a few days later claims he started, and built up a complete woodshop business 40 years ago, which using his " retired at 28 " BS, as a reference, would of made him EIGHT years old. so either he is a lier, or he cant get his facts straight. the only reason to listen to him, is cause his posts are comedy gold
i wonder what BS he will type for this now
Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
https://imgur.com/a/s9Ift1pPeterCollier - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
Thanks, I'll make a mental note to ignore him.Spunjji - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
This comment is absolutely hilarious. Korguz mocks PeterCollier for accusing Ian and AnandTech of anti-Intel bias, and Deicidium369 chimes in saying it's because... *drumroll* Korguz is a "hard core AMD shill". Even better is that PeterCollier goes on to agree.Peter and Deicidium make a great pairing - two sides to the same demented coin.
PeterCollier - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
Your obsession with certain posters is concerning.Spunjji - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
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