This one tests decompression and compression workloads. The 7700K OC posts an additional 8% gain over its stock score. The 3100 runs a significant and somewhat remarkable 37% ahead of the 9100F AVG FPS. If you do work on YouTube and your videos are somewhat similar to ours in concept, you can easily draw conclusions from our results.The Division 2 looks more favorable for AMD, something we learned in our budget CPU round-up recently. The 9100F is left far behind and the 9600K is behind the 1600 AF stock, so we’ll need to wait for Intel’s next round for a bump.An extra $80-$100 pushes to the 3600 at 137FPS AVG from AMD, or the 9600K – which we’d advise against, with its upcoming 10-series soon tested – from Intel. This is a render benchmark using real videos we’ve made for our channel, including a 1080p60 convention video and a 4K60 set of broll. The data on this chart is gathered from user-submitted Geekbench 5 results from the Geekbench Browser. Ultimately, even at 8 threads, this workload ends up on the brutal side for the 3100 stock CPU, which suffers from lower frequencies. None of these are great CPUs for advanced users of Photoshop or those who may do this as any form of income. Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation on Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) As for the 3100 overclock, that’s at 18.6 minutes, a reduction of 10% versus stock.Here’s the frametime plot. The 3100 OC runs 190FPS AVG.The 3500X does well at keeping up, while the 1600AF outpaces the 3100. A jaunt to the 3600 for versatility or higher-clocked 9000-series parts would be worthy of consideration if justifiable in the work budget. As for the 7700K, credit to Intel where it’s due – the old flagship still runs 179FPS AVG stock, a lead over the 3100 stock CPU of 20%. That’s a big jump for $80 and would be worth considering for anyone more bound by the CPU.
Overclocking the 3100 puts it at 97FPS AVG, while the 7700K runs 111FPS AVG overclocked and 102FPS AVG stock.The AMD 3100 stock CPU scores 45.7K MIPS, putting it just behind the 7700K 5.1GHz OC at 46.7K MIPS, and ahead of the 7700K stock performance by 15%. The stack doesn’t look that different, so we can bring the game benchmarks to a close shortly as we’ve established a pattern. For the 3100 stock with Cinebench R20 single-thread running, the maximum boost is usually about 3900MHz -- or just slightly under -- with the heaviest load applied to Core 0, Thread 1. Based on 23,858 user benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and the Ryzen 5 3400G, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 1,256 CPUs.
The 3100 OC won’t actually just equal a 3300X, unlike how AMD laid-out CPUs like the 3600 and 3600X. There’s enough of a bottleneck that it doesn’t matter as much, and although this isn’t a great way to show a CPU hierarchy, it is a good way to show the reality of a GPU-constrained game.For the GN Logo render, the 3100 stock CPU completes in 36 minutes, about tied with the 7700K stock CPU. There will be some delay after submitting a comment.Chromium is the last production benchmark we’ll look at today. The 3500X isn’t commonly available outside of China, so this isn’t much to consider other than for intrigue. It’s low power, but without an IGP, there’s not much hidden value in the CPU beyond that, and low power doesn’t count for much when you’re talking about maximizing performance for the dollar.Total War: Three Kingdoms and the battle test are up now, starting at 1080p. Most gaming software is still optimized for low thread counts and high clock rates, and some game engines even prefer single-threaded cores. As for the 3100 overclock, that one runs 99FPS AVG, limited again by its intra-CCD latency from CCX to CCX. The 9100F drags behind, allowing the 3100 a lead of 16%. The voltage for the overclock was controlled and ended up more efficient in some instances than the auto voltage.At 1440p, the results are now squashed by a limited GPU ceiling, and so the scaling shrinks. The 3100 is flanked by the 1600AF on either side, thanks to its higher boost frequency natively, and the 7700K leads by about 9% stock-to-stock. The new Ryzen 3 chips also serve up ultra-competitive performance at stock settings.