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: Strange Brigade (DX12, Vulkan)
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark which offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. AMD has boasted previously that Strange Brigade is part of its Vulkan API implementation offering scalability for AMD multi-graphics card configurations.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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PeterCollier - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
Ugh, how much did Intel pay you for this article?kulareddy - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
How much did AMD pay you for this comment?callmebob - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
They paid him with old new stock of a dozen 1st gen Bulldozer CPUs.Just having the AMD logo on them will make him blissfully happy. No need to waste good products on him ;-)
kulareddy - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
👏👏👏PeterCollier - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
This makes no sense.Teckk - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
I genuinely want to understand why you think so?You really believe this article puts Intel's chips in a good light?
Would've preferred to see a set of different/recent processors in comparison but your comment is confusing lol.
Teckk - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
Arghhh .. meant as a reply to @PeterCollierkulareddy - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
👍PeterCollier - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
Yestwtech - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
I guess one point might be that in most of the comparisons, there are no higher-end AMD CPUs included. So you see that Intel's higher-end processors are better for gaming, but not that there are AMD options as well further up the chain.Even so, I think Intel holds the gaming FPS crown anyway for the moment, with their new 10900k (which isn't on this chart). That 5.3 boost clock should be pretty good for achieving maximal framerates.
Other than losing to Intel at max-FPS gaming though, AMD dominates all segments from a price/performance, raw performance, and power efficiency performance. Server, mobile, workstation, gaming, etc.