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 an RTX 2080 Ti.
Gaming: World of Tanks enCore
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for a new and unreleased graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine will implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine run optimally on their system.
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/