AMD Ryzen 3 3300X – when cheaper Matisse is not enough

The duel of Ryzen 3 3100 and Intel Core i3-10100 processors showed that AMD can beat Intel in most tests at a lower price. However, the R3 3100 is not the only new model introduced by the manufacturer. The 3300X is more powerful, with higher clock speed and, coincidentally, it also sells for the same price as the Ci3-10100. In addition to significantly higher clock speed, it also has different CCD composition.

Rendering

Higher clock speed and a change in the internal structure of the processor were immediately reflected in the result of Cinebench R15. Compared to the 3100, you see a nice 12% increase in performance in single-core and 9% in multi-core. The 3300X’s lead over Intel is even bigger, 15 and 24%.

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The newer version of Cinebench R20 shows the same difference as R15 among the new Ryzen 3 CPUs. The lead over Intel has changed slightly, an increase to 20% in single-core but a decrease to 19% in multi-core.

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In a practical test of POV-Ray render, you can see that the 3300X is 8% faster than the 3100 and 21% faster than the 10100. This translates into almost 10 and 25 second differences.

Blender showed only a 3% difference between 3100 and 10100. The 3300X is another 11% or 49 and 63 seconds faster than both.

Geekbench

Geekbench 3 shows a 9% lead of the 3300X over the 3100 in both single and multi-core tests. Compared to Intel, it is up to 18 and 25% faster.

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Although Geekbench 4 doesn’t really like AMD processors, the 3300X beats the other two processors in this test as well, 7–9% in single-core and 8–14% in multi-core.

The latest Geekbench 5 version shows a 12% lead over 3100 in single-core and 13% over 10100. Multi-core 5 and 14% in favor of 3300X.

The raw performance of the 3300X is very solid and the more than 10% increase in single-core compared to the 3100 is definitely not negligible. In multi-core, we saw up to a quarter higher performance compared to 10100 which is unprecedented at the same price of processors.