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

Gaming, graphics tests and PC/3DMark

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.

Far Cry 5



The area where Intel 10100 was ahead of Ryzen 3100 is high fps gaming. This happens when you lower the resolution and/or graphics settings to get as many frames per second as possible. Bottleneck is thus transferred from the graphics card to the processor and Intel had an advantage there thanks to higher clock speed. This is still the case, but now the difference is only at the level of 10% or 10 fps which is significantly better than 20–25 fps in the case of 3100.

Unigine Heaven and Superposition


However, the results are different in Unigine tests, where the 3300X gets better results than the 10100 even in high fps gaming.

PCMark and 3DMark


Similarly, both PCMark and 3DMark Firestrike are already clearly in favor of AMD with a 7% and 4% lead over Intel.

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  1. Sorry you spent time on this.Can you find one for 120 dollars.Im starting to feel amd raging like intel used 2.Gak I should have stayed blue.Bought an a320 with a 3200g to see what the craz was about.Was not bad.I now have the 3200 in a gigabyte b550 and again not bad https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/33156011.Now i see the cheap cpu is no longer cheap.Iwish i had just gone 9400f.

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