In fact it feels like the Ryzen 3 3100 exists purely so that AMD can say it has a competitive gaming chip for less than $100.We've already talked about the performance you can expect from the Ryzen 3 3100 in our review of the Ryzen 3 3300X, as we tested both at the same time. That's plenty impressive performance from the 3300X. Intel also chose to remove an overclockable Core i3 from its looming Comet Lake lineup, so we included the Core i3-9350KF to show what we'll be missing out on (aside from a $159 price tag for a Core i3). There was a problem. It isn't that the Ryzen 3 3100 is a bad CPU, far from it, it's simply that the 3300X is a much better one. You will receive a verification email shortly.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.As with the 3300X the imminent release of the B550 motherboards is important to the overall value proposition, although you may be happier pairing this chip with a B450 to keep the overall spend down as B550s are generally expected to roll in at $100, well above what you can pick up a B450 board for today. The moment you do that you begin to undermine its main reason for existing—this is primarily a budget CPU after all. Erfahre mehr über Spezifikationen, Speicher und wichtige Funktionen! Based on 112,792 user benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 3 2200G and the Ryzen 3 3100, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 1,256 CPUs. The Core i3-9350K can be devastating in some titles when it's pushed to its max clocks, and that trend plays out in the World of Tanks Encore benchmark. It also means I can give it a score of its own, because while these two budget chips from AMD do have a lot in common, they are definitely different enough to warrant separate marks.In isolation the Ryzen 3 3100 is a great budget chip. The Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 outpace their competitors, the Core i5-9400F and Core i3-9100, respectively. Most gaming software is still optimized for low thread counts and high clock rates, and some game engines even prefer single-threaded cores. We expect competition to be even more heated for the mid-range when Comet Lake launches. The Ryzen 3 3100 falls to the $85 (sometimes) Ryzen 5 1600AF, which isn't surprising given the latter's six cores and 12 threads. This does mean you'll miss out on support for PCIe Gen-4 NVMe drives, but given they're pricier storage solutions anyway, that may be something which makes more sense when on the tightest of budgets.Alan has spent far too much of his life in World of Warcraft and playing Magic the Gathering to be a normal human being, which is why he has retreated to the warm embrace of gaming hardware.So where does this leave the Ryzen 3 3100? The Ryzen 5 1600AF also puts up a decent enough fight as it comes within striking range of the Ryzen 3 3100 and Core i3-9100, and tuning might unlock a bit more juice.In the synthetic world of the Fire Strike benchmark, the Ryzen 5 3600 and 1600AF's extra cores and threads come into play as the workload exploits their enhanced parallelism. The performance difference the 3300X holds over the 3100 is substantial, even when the cheaper chip is heavily overclocked. Essentially I can't foresee any scenario where I'd recommend saving the $20 to get the 3100 over the 3300X. Regardless, it can't unseat the Ryzen 3 3300X in spite of its 600 MHz advantage after we kicked up the clocks. All these things play well with the Ryzen 3 3300X and it's beefy L3 cache.
The DX12 Timespy physics test finds the Core i5-9400F taking the lead over the Ryzen 3 3300X, but the Core i3-9100 can't compete with the Ryzen 3 3100. Thank you for signing up to Tom's Hardware. This is not the case with the Ryzen 3 3100. This is a chip that overclocks well straight out of the box, with just the basic air-cooler AMD provides. Overclocking … The AMD Ryzen 3 3100, like the Ryzen 3300X, is a quad-core, 8-thread CPU designed for gamers on a budget. You can say all those things about Civilization VI, and the four-core four-thread Core i3-9350K fits the bill nicely. Stockfish, an open-source chess engine, is designed to extract the utmost performance from many-core chips by scaling well up to 512 cores, with latency being less of a factor. The Core i5-9400F and i7-7700K are closely matched in this series of gaming tests, indicating that Intel's response to competitive pressure, which comes in the form of higher clock rates and added cores, has steadily added more value in its mid-range processors. It isn't that the Ryzen 3 3100 is a bad CPU, far from it, it's simply that the 3300X is a much better one. The moment you do that you begin to undermine its main reason for existing—this is primarily a budget CPU after all. However, the problem here is still the Ryzen 3 3300X: It's better in every metric that matters, and costs just $20 more.