3.6GHz.
In our two test titles, we saw a difference of 9fps at most, and that was with the lower-end Ryzen 3 1200. But of course, not everyone can afford to spend that much on a processor—even if it's arguably a steal compared to Intel's pricing.Like all other Ryzens, the Ryzen 3 CPUs are unlocked for easy overclocking. The higher-end Ryzen 3 part will generally perform better at stock than an overclocked 1200, should also be more stable, and will probably be more reliable in the long run than a lesser chip pushed to its performance limits.Second, if you're spending hundreds on a high-end video card for games and (again) you aren't planning on gaming at 4K, a chip in the range of the Core i7-7700K (which also includes the new Core i7-7740X on Intel's new Core X-Series platform) will give you significantly higher frame rates in at least some games. But as we've said a few times with Ryzen parts that have stepped-up counterparts that don't cost too much more, overclocking doesn't really make a whole lot of sense here. For power users with lesser demands (and tighter budgets), the four Ryzen 5 processors are a better fit, with (depending on the chip) between eight and 12 threads. You can make a strong case for the Pentium G4560 with Hyper-Threading, 10-core i9-7900X with up to 18-core coming in October, an unlocked Core i3 part, and the 6-core Coffee Lake planned for Intel's mainstream LGA1151 platform in early 2018 all being a response to Ryzen's performance and value.Here are the minimum framerates for the tested CPUs as well:With the mainstream Ryzen parts now fully released, all that's left now is for AMD to deliver some Ryzen APUs with integrated Vega graphics.
But on the single-core test, the Ryzen 3 1300X still did about 16 percent better than the Ryzen 3 1200.
Both are also overclockable, though to overclock you'll want to invest in an aftermarket cooler, which will add enough to the price that you may be in Ryzen 5 territory.We don't traditionally run graphics tests when testing processors that aren't equipped with integrated graphics.
The main reason: Graphics performance typically has much more to do with what graphics card you have installed than what processor you're using—especially when you're using a fairly powerful chip like an AMD Ryzen 7 or Intel's competing Core i7-7700K.The Ryzen processors still employ pins on the CPU itself, not the socket-side pins and on-chip contacts that Intel has long since moved to with its consumer CPUs.There are, of course, quite a few other details about the Ryzen platform in general to consider if you're building or buying a system, including the finer details of the chip architecture, the various AMD Ryzen-compatible motherboard chipsets, and motherboard details and pricing. Radeon™ Vega 8 Graphics # of CPU Cores. More details on overclocking the Ryzen 3 chips is below.The Ryzen 3 1200 will sell for $109, while the Ryzen 3 1300X is priced at $129.