Although nosotros've simply just learned official information most Ryzen 3, information technology feels like we already know everything there was to know nigh AMD'southward new R3 1200 and 1300X afterwards running fake benchmarks last week. Today we get to come across how accurate those preliminary results were and get to lucifer those impressions with finalized pricing.

Every bit before, the Ryzen 3 1300X will operate at a base of operations frequency of 3.5GHz with a boost frequency of 3.7GHz, while the slightly lower-end 1200 drops that to 3.1GHz with a iii.4GHz heave. Both parts are unlocked, so the pricier 1300X seems less bonny to us at $130, which is only $40 away from the SMT-enabled R5 1400. At $110, the R3 1200 offers $lx in savings over the R5 1400 and seems like a better buy for budget builders.

Nosotros're curious to see how much slower the SMT-less Ryzen iii processors are, specially when compared to similarly priced Intel CPUs. Doing this is a trivial tricky because equally nosotros explained before, Intel's CPUs make piddling sense here and the $80 Pentium G4560 eliminates everything right up to the $190 Core i5-7400. In other words, everything priced below $180 in Intel's current lineup is pointless, including the company's unabridged Kaby Lake Cadre i3 range.

We're too wondering how much overclocking will affect the overall picture (teaser: using the Wraith Stealth box, the Ryzen 3 1200 hit three.9GHz while the 1300X offered four.0GHz). Assuming they tin can outpace the locked 7400 and 7500, AMD's new entry-level chips should be sitting comfortably at their $110 and $130 MSRPs.

Synthetic & Awarding Benchmarks

Get-go up, memory operation and a few quick notes. When I put together the faux Ryzen 3 article, I used DDR4-2933 with the Ryzen five 1400 (SMT-disabled) equally I noted that it was probable that Ryzen 3 CPUs would have a hard fourth dimension running with faster retentivity. And so far this has indeed been the case equally neither the 1300X or 1200 would boot using the DDR4-3200 XMP setting.

And so I was forced to run at DDR4-2933 and this was also the case with my Ryzen 5 1500X and 1400 CPUs every bit well. Nonetheless performance was decent and nosotros saw over 34GB/due south of memory bandwidth. That figure was boosted to effectually 35.5GB/s once the CPUs were overclocked.

We take the first CPU-related benchmark hither, in which Ryzen 3 1200 shows fairly weak single thread functioning, coupled with reasonably decent multi-threaded functioning. The higher clocked 1300X made out bit improve, matching the single thread performance of the Core i5-7600 with slightly weaker multi-threaded operation.

After existence overclocked, both Ryzen 3 CPUs achieve similar scores equally they were running at a like frequency. Both were faster than the i5-7500 for both the single and multi-threaded tests.

For those interested in compression and decompression work, in 7-Goose egg the 1200 was a proficient bit faster than the Pentium G4560 just slower than the Core i3-7350K. The 1300X was much more impressive equally it beat the i3-7350K and edged out the i5-7500. One time overclocked, both Ryzen three CPUs sat comfortably ahead of the i5-7500.

In our Microsoft Excel 2022 exam the 1300X did well to match the lower-clocked 1400 while the 1200 trailed the i3-7350K just it was much faster than the G4560. We squeezed a little more out of the Ryzen 3 CPUs via overclocking but nonetheless the 1300X nevertheless trailed the i5-7500 past a small margin.

Moving on, we have the first of four PCMark 10 test suits that we're going to wait at. The data here is bundled by the video conferencing results and hither the Ryzen 3 CPUs slot in between the Pentium G4560 and Core i3-7350K. Once overclocked they moved ahead of the Cadre i5-7500.

The productivity test has been arranged past the spreadsheets results and hither the Ryzen 3 CPUs sabbatum at the bottom of our graph behind the G4560. They make upward considerable ground with overclocking in this test, however, and are now able to match the Ryzen 5 1600X and Core i5-7500.

This graph has been bundled by the photograph editing result and hither the Ryzen 3 CPUs do well with the 1300X almost matching the Core i5-7500. One time overclocked, both the 1200 and 1300X pulled alee to deliver 1500X-like functioning.

The Ryzen 3 1200 was slightly faster than the G4560 in our video editing examination while the 1300X sat between the i5-7500 and i3-7350K -- the higher-clocked Cadre i3 CPU was the faster of the two. Overclocking boosted Ryzen 3's performance significantly and we are now seeing Core i7-7700K-like performance in this exam.