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: Far Cry 5
The latest title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration.
Far Cry 5 does support Vega-centric features with Rapid Packed Math and Shader Intrinsics. Far Cry 5 also supports HDR (HDR10, scRGB, and FreeSync 2). We use the in-game benchmark for our data, and report the average/minimum frame rates.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Spunjji - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
Ah, we have an "enlightened centrist" here. No take is too worthless, malformed or ignorant for him. Anything less than subjecting yourself to the dribblings of fools and disinformation artists is an "echo chamber". Such rational, many smart.Ian Cutress - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
You do realise that not all of the benchmarks have to confirm to your use case?There are two roads to take:
1) Out of ABCXYZ, Benchmarks XYZ are relevant to me. That's good.
2) Out of ABCXYZ, only Benchmarks XYZ are relevant to me. Why did you even bother testing ABC?
Not 100% of benchmarks have to be relevant to you. Plenty of other folks have requested these.
Spunjji - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
Famrnuke - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
I'm sorry, WHAT? Userbench? I'll assume you're joking, because that's a god-awful "benchmark". PCMark is fine, but they gave many gaming results, so actually they've done better work than a lazy PCMark result.They did 7zip/WinRAR, imaging editing, video encoding, and browser tests as well.
Exactly what would using PCMark and Userbench add?
PeterCollier - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
PCMark writing is a good test of system responsiveness.paulemannsen - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
Userbenchmark is so bad, it now gets ridiculed permanently and has become the Number 1 Meme in the community. PCMark measures, like you said yourself, SYSTEM-responsiveness, so its understandable if its not the top priority here. Furthermore, if you arent completely braindead you can extrapolate system-behaviour from a CPU-test/benchmark. Basically everything you spew here is demontrating your total ignorance and lack of knowledge of everything. You should be utterly ashamed of yourself.PeterCollier - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
Mind mentioning some facts when disparaging Userbenchmark?Spunjji - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
Facts! Okay:It has a known Intel bias, it doesn't actually do anything that isn't covered by the tests shown here, and even if it did *some of us would still be happier with these real-world application benchmarks*.
PeterCollier - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
Got some links?Spunjji - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
Sure, here's one that's relevant to you:http://wondermark.com/1k62/