AMD Ryzen 3 3100 CPU Review: Overclocking, Gaming, & Production Benchmarks (ft. 7700K)

This is our review of the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 CPU that’s priced at $100, incl. gaming, overclocking, & production. Our next video benchmarks R3 3300X vs. R3 3100 at the same clocks.
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The AMD Ryzen R3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X had their review embargoes lifted today, with the R3 3100 and R3 3300X release date on May 21, 2020. Intel’s 10-series desktop CPUs (Comet Lake) will release one day before, on May 20, 2020, and that will include the Core i9-10900K, Core i7-10700K, Core i5-10600K, and Core i3 10300. For now, the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 most directly competes against AMD’s other products, like the rarely available AMD R5 1600 AF and the same-day launched AMD R3 3300X, priced at $20 more but significantly improved in some aspects, like CCX-to-CCX latency. We’ll explore that in a different video that posts a few hours from now. The Intel i3-9100F is worth mention, as is Intel’s Core i7-7700K and 7700K OC. We included benchmarks of the i7-7700K vs. AMD R3 3100 for easy reference. This follows-up our benchmarks of the best budget CPUs in 2020 and updates its data tables.

AMD R3 3100 eventually will list here (Amazon): https://geni.us/Ps6DZ
AMD R3 3300X eventually will list here (Amazon): https://geni.us/eHNvbh
Find the AMD R5 1600 AF (Amazon): https://geni.us/LrL6K6F
Find the Intel Core i3-9100F (Amazon): https://geni.us/7GouN
Find the AMD Athlon 3000G (Amazon): https://geni.us/yNcshn9
Find the AMD R5 3600 (Amazon): https://geni.us/Czsy

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro to CCX-to-CCX Latency on 3100 & 3300X
05:13 - 1T Frequency Scaling Behavior & Boost
05:56 - Marketing Fact-Check on All-Core Boost
06:45 - Total War TK Battle at 1080p
08:23 - Frametime Plot & FPS "Smoothness"
09:41 - 1440p Total War Benchmark & Bottlenecks
10:41 - Three Kingdoms Campaign Benchmark
11:40 - The Division 2 & Bigger AMD Advantage
13:00 - Red Dead Redemption 2 CPU Benchmark (1080p Vulkan)
14:11 - F1 2019 1080p & 1440p Dx12 CPU Benchmarks
15:22 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p Dx12
16:04 - Civilization VI AI Processing Turn Time
16:56 - GTA V Dx11 & Intel Advantage (Sometimes)
17:55 - Production Benchmarks: Blender 2.81 CPU Comparison
19:50 - Adobe Premiere CPU Benchmarks R3 3100 CPU
21:35 - Adobe Photoshop Best CPUs
22:29 - Compression & Decompression 7-Zip Benchmarks
24:15 - Code Compile CPU Benchmark for Programming
25:17 - AMD R3 3100 Power Consumption
26:30 - Conclusion: AMD R3 3100 vs. 1600AF, 9100F, 3600

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