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On a budget? Good news for you, as AMD are expanding their third-gen Ryzen processor list with the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X. Announced today, they might be aimed at the budget market but they still look to pack a good punch.

Models:

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X

  • 4 cores / 8 threads
  • 65 watt TDP
  • 4.3 GHz boost / 3.8GHz base
  • Expected price: $120

AMD Ryzen 3 3100

  • 4 cores / 8 threads
  • 65 watt TDP
  • 3.9 GHz boost / 3.6GHz base
  • Expected price: $99

Both are expected to launch in May 2020.

Additionally, AMD also announced the B550 chipset for the AM4 socket. What looks to be the cheapest chipset with compatibility for PCIe 4.0. AMD said they expected motherboards to ship with the B550 chipset from June 16 onwards.

From the press release:

"Games and applications are becoming more and more demanding, and with this, users are demanding more from their PCs," said Saeid Moshkelani, senior vice president and general manager, client business unit. "AMD is committed to providing solutions that meet and exceed those demands for all levels of computing. With the addition of these new Ryzen 3 desktop processors we are continuing this commitment with our mainstream gaming customers. We’ve taken performance up a level, doubling the processing threads of our Ryzen 3 processors to propel gaming and multitasking experiences to new heights."

Certainly no shortage of choice on good desktop processors now. Are looking to build a new PC, what processor will you be looking at?

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ageres Apr 22, 2020
Quoting: Mohandevir6fps between 4 cores to 8 cores.
I'd say, +10% is a significant amount of growth. Maybe much bigger price differences between CPUs make it unworthy, but at least it shows that games actually do use multithreading. Doubling cores doesn't mean doubling the performance.
Quoting: MohandevirIt seems to be a per game thing.
Sure, but with new 8C16T consoles coming, I believe all AAA games are going to be multithreaded, using 16 threads efficiently. For people who want to build a gaming computer without the need to upgrade it in the next few years, I would recommend a Ryzen 7 or at least six-core Ryzen 5.


Last edited by ageres on 22 April 2020 at 5:43 am UTC
tuubi Apr 22, 2020
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Quoting: armageddon51Currently the 2600 is $174 at Newegg. It is a though choice but the pricing of the 3300X at $120 is pretty much on the spot.
who would be able to buy at those prices?? with supplies chains collapsing, prices have skyrocketed, for example it's practically imposible to find NAVI cards at MSRP.
Prices in the EU don't seem that bad. At least here in Finland the RX5700 XT is cheaper than it was before the pandemic when I bought mine.
tommystig21 Apr 22, 2020
Finally I will update my PC, hopefully here in italy, the 3300X will be €150/160... i cannot keep gaming with dual cores (i3 6100 now and G3258 before that).

QuoteSure, but with new 8C16T consoles coming, I believe all AAA games are going to be multithreaded, using 16 threads efficiently. For people who want to build a gaming computer without the need to upgrade it in the next few years, I would recommend a Ryzen 7 or at least six-core Ryzen 5.

I keep hearing that since 2013 with jaguar architecture from xbox and ps4

Here in italy the R5 is still around €250 and the 3700X is €350 (directly from Amazon Prime), we all know they are a better choice for future games, but I and many others cannot afford €350 cpu, €150 RAM and €100 MOBO.
With the 3300X, mobo and ram i will be in the range of €300/350 and a pretty good gaming PC for less than a ps5, and who knows... maybe amd will keep AM4 compatibility for a few generations ahead.


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ageres Apr 22, 2020
Quoting: tommystig21Here in italy the R5 is still around €250 and the 3700X is €350 (directly from Amazon Prime)
My brother bought an R5 2600 for about $120-130 on AliExpress (do people use it in Italy?) last autumn, there are also R7 2700 available for $150, DDR4-3200 16GB RAM modules for $75, mobos and other hardware too.
Mohandevir Apr 22, 2020
Quoting: ageres
Quoting: Mohandevir6fps between 4 cores to 8 cores.
I'd say, +10% is a significant amount of growth. Maybe much bigger price differences between CPUs make it unworthy, but at least it shows that games actually do use multithreading. Doubling cores doesn't mean doubling the performance.
Quoting: MohandevirIt seems to be a per game thing.
Sure, but with new 8C16T consoles coming, I believe all AAA games are going to be multithreaded, using 16 threads efficiently. For people who want to build a gaming computer without the need to upgrade it in the next few years, I would recommend a Ryzen 7 or at least six-core Ryzen 5.

Exactly why I said that it didn't make the new Ryzen 3 future proof.

Still, atm, the biggest gain is when you Jump from 4c/4t to 4c/8t. For a budget build, these Ryzen can be a good deal.


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Eike Apr 22, 2020
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German computer magazine c't has done reserach about this. They often found fps not to vary greatly, but frame times (99% best) to get smoother with more cores.
tommystig21 Apr 22, 2020
QuoteAliExpress (do people use it in Italy?)

Not really, more often than not there will be huge import fees, and it totally lacks support for warranty, without that it's considered grey market in italy (since there is no IVA --italian tax) and not worth the discount. It happens on amazon.it too, that's why we must be carefull to go to the list of reseller and select Amazon directly or an italian based shop, only in those cases there will be official support from the shop (fingers crossed) or amd (or gigabyte for mobos, etc.)
That's why I usually buy PC parts in retail shops like nexths.it (a small chain in nord italy with few fisical shops) they are very professional and they stick to MSRP prices with taxes applied. They even update the BIOS for newer CPUs when you buy a motherboard without extra costs.

PS: IVA is only one of the many taxes applyed to goods, being calculated in priceofitem + 22%, in case of aliexpress IVA must be paid when you receive the item on your doorstep + import fees, which only god knows how they are calculated.
Samsai Apr 22, 2020
A few things.

QuoteYou are so wrong it is not even funny. First of all, the 2600 uses 1 256bit AVX2 command per 2 clocks, instead of 1 clock. This is HUGE for next gen games. Guess what, AAA next gen games will require AVX2 baseline, since consoles have it. And having proper 1 command per clock support for AVX2 will make a huge difference in the AAA games to come. So buying older architectures than Zen 2 in my opinion is not worth it.

To put it into perspective, it is the difference Bulldozer architecture had with Intel in gaming. It had HALF the floating point performance, which hurt gaming a lot.
This assumes you can actually feed AVX2 workloads every clock in games. There are some game engine architecture choices that are capable of utilizing SIMD but claiming 1 clock or 2 clock AVX2 submission is going to be as dramatic as Bulldozer's shared FPUs doesn't make sense. Bulldozer did poorly in gaming because gaming is full of single floating point operations, since much of the data in games is represented as floating point values. Not to mention non-game processes could require the FPU while the game is running which stalls the floating point operation.

QuoteCaches aren't really important in current video games. Obviously a few years from now this may change, but a few years from now you will probably be upgrading the 3300X anyway... What matters most is the speed/latency of those caches, for gaming purposes. And i think since both cpus are of the same architecture they will feature similar speeds. Cache would play a huge part if it was cache for the igpu part of an APU, other than that, the vast majority of games are more than fine with 3300X levels of cache.
I find it particularly funny that you in consecutive comments argued for the importance of AVX2 but then followed that up by saying cache isn't that important. Cache is what keeps those AVX2 instructions fed, otherwise you will stall until the RAM slowly drags your data set into your L3 where it still needs to traverse into L2 and L1. Presumably games don't just load a single vector workload and endlessly FMA that same vector. Not to mention the significance of caches when it comes to data-oriented design, such as ECS systems, which have been gaining popularity as of late because, as it turns out, cache misses are harmful to game performance too. In this regard bigger caches absolutely do matter since we use multi-way caches and more cache lines means more slices of memory can be kept in L3 without having to evict already loaded data.

So, if you are going to be rude and accuse people of being wrong and shills and whatnot, I would also recommend that you at least be correct in your claims. Or consistent. Or generally constructive.
Mohandevir Apr 22, 2020
Quite instructive comments from all of you. Thanks!

Still it's funny to think that, as of October 2019, I was still gaming on my 7 year old i7-3770 and paired with a good GPU, I was still having a great gaming experience. I bought my Ryzen 5 3600 because I feared for a hardware failure, not because it was outdated. Sure, I'm not into the 4K and/or 144hz race. My 1080p 60hz HDTV with in-game Vsync is still my target and will be for the foreseable futur. As long as I have a silent build that gives me a solid 60fps (tearing and stuttering free) plus a little headroom, I'll be satisfied. Above that it's just overpowered/overpriced.

But that's just my situation and point of view.

Have fun with your high end gaming rig building!


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armageddon51 Apr 23, 2020
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Quoting: armageddon51Cpu L caches also have a big impact on performance. One may argue that the additional caches are for the 3600 two extra cores but the processor is pretty smart in allocating caches to different processes. Currently the 2600 is $174 at Newegg. It is a though choice but the pricing of the 3300X at $120 is pretty much on the spot.

Caches aren't really important in current video games. Obviously a few years from now this may change, but a few years from now you will probably be upgrading the 3300X anyway... What matters most is the speed/latency of those caches, for gaming purposes. And i think since both cpus are of the same architecture they will feature similar speeds. Cache would play a huge part if it was cache for the igpu part of an APU, other than that, the vast majority of games are more than fine with 3300X levels of cache.

Sorry man but that's the most ridiculous statement I ever read. Which one is it, "caches are not important" but their "speed/latency" is. High speed caches (read expensive) are use for every single cpu instruction. That's one of the major problem for modern cpu. They are so fast that getting the instructions/data in time is problematic. The cpu will be at a standing still if it has to fetch this information from the main memory. Yes the faster and the bigger the caches, the faster it goes. It's not important in gaming ??? Good luck with you "cacheless" cpu, if you ever found one. You may be able to play Ping Pong.
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