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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BenSkywalker - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
You just called them AMD shills. They went into this review to prove how great AMD is, that is not journalism, that is not a review, that is a marketing campaign.Literally zero need to use the CPU bench tool they have, literally every other site I've checked has a useful, much better review, although it doesn't hit the level of marketing you are looking for.
Spunjji - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
"Openly stating the obvious conclusion that your empirical testing led you to is a marketing caompaign" is exactly the sort of anti-intellectual, brain-dead take I have come to expect from you, Ben.He didn't call them AMD shills - you did, and all for daring to have an opinion.
BenSkywalker - Friday, May 15, 2020 - link
"They try to make a point with their review"That is to the letter the opposite of objectivity, that is precisely what shilling is, and I'm not the one that said it. Is English not your first language? You truly shouldn't being up intellect if you don't comprehend the words being used.
Deicidium369 - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
is it any different that the AMD Fluff like "Which is the best CPU" "Which is the best Workstation CPU" etc ...Spunjji - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
How was that article "AMD fluff"?Oh, because Intel's offerings got panned. How sad. I guess that means Anandtech has a bias that tracks roughly with which parts are the best at any given time. Its almost like... objectivity 🤔
PeterCollier - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
I agree. Ian should take some classes from Andrei on chart creation and proper benchmarking.Fataliity - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
The first page talks about,Which should you buy? the 3100/3300 versiohns, or a 2600, or a 1600AF?
And then the benchmarks compare them.
He's comparing what you can buy in the price range, I thought it was easy to understand.
BenSkywalker - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
The world does not revolve around what amdownzjoo.com has as a recommended processor. Even if we were limiting ourselves to that, what about the 3200G? Every other site I found handled their reviews of this product much better.Spunjji - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
What *about* the 3200G? It's an older, slower CPU. If you're going to add a dGPU, it's pointless. If you're not, you're still better off waiting for the 4000 series.The desperate scraping for even a semblance of a point in your posts is positively painful.
BenSkywalker - Friday, May 15, 2020 - link
Wanting to see how a $99 CPU compares to a $99 and a $129 CPU is pointless..... You have a special way of viewing things.