Beginner class: AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 3 1200 in test

1 - Einführung und Übersicht 2 - 3DMark, VRMark 3 - AotS: Escalation, Battlefield 1 4 - GTA V, Hitman (2016) 5 - Shadow of Mordor, Project Cars 6 - Far Cry Primal, Rise of the Tomb Raider 7 - The Witcher 3, Civilization VI 8 - Workstation-Benchmarks 9 - Temperaturen und Lautstärke (Boxed Kühler) 10 - Leistungsaufnahme im Detail 11 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit

If you want to refresh your knowledge of AMD's new architecture, take a look at the launch article "AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X in Test" and the first follow-up "The Ryzen Family: Three Sevens with Eight Cores in Second Comparison", as well as the launch article on the Ryzen 5 where everything has already been described in detail.

According to the manufacturer, the advantage of AMD's scalable architecture should also be to be able to adapt the CPUs with their expansion almost at will, so that a wide range of constellations from consumer to server CPUs can be put on the market without much additional effort. can bring. One of the backgrounds is, of course, purely economic, because it also means that many chips can be reused, for which a part is not functional or only to a limited extent. But this is neither new nor offensive, but important for better yield and in the end also ensures survival.

The basis for this versatile denomination is AMD's CPU Complex (CCX for short), which we still know from the architectural description of the Ryzen launch. Each of these CCX contains four cores, so you might suspect a real halved eight-core behind the Ryzen 3 1300X. But that is obviously not the case.

Instead, AMD says it uses only two cores (2-2) of each CCX. However, the L3 cache halves in total to 8 MB, as with the Ryzen 5 1400, which could be a disadvantage. In addition, each of the cores of both CPUs, as usual, still has 64 KB of L1 cache (commands and data) and 512 KB L2 cache available. However, what the Ryzen 3 CPUs do, for example, from Ryzen 5 1500X and 1400 really fundamentally different is the absence of SMT, which limits the number of threads to the number of physically present cores.

There is still the eternally young price question. Here we will now have to take the actual test results as the actual yardstick for the final assessment.

Each of the CPUs already contains AMD's Wrait stealth cooler in the box, which does not make a bad figure overall for the called power dissipation and can even cool down the components on the motherboard as a downblower.

Test system and configuration

We are testing the two CPUs on the same platform as Ryzen 5 by using the MSI B350 Tomahawk, a more cost-effective motherboard from the 100 Euro class. Of course, overclocking attempts can also be started with this motherboard – at least as far as the CPU as such really allows. We can already spoil the fact that the Ryzen 3 1300X on 4.0 GHz and the Ryzen 3 1200 could be overclocked up to 3.9 GHz and operated equally in a long-term stable manner.

As a special feature, the board offers its own temperature measurement by means of a sensor in the socket area, whereby we want to refer explicitly (without pre-pre-presetting in detail now) to our own measurements and explanations of AMD's Tctl values, which will follow later in the article. . At least the findings from MMI's sensors were the trigger for our somewhat more detailed paragraph on this topic (from page 7).

The AM4 motherboard is based on the AMD B350 chipset and has four DDR4 slots for up to 64 GB of memory, whereby we will only use two slots in our test with a total of 16GB (2x 8GB DDR4 3200). On board are a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, a PCIe 2.0 x4 slot, two PCIe 2.0 x1 slots and two older PCI slots. The motherboard also features a 7.1 onboard sound chip, a Gigabit Ethernet interface, as well as four SATA3 ports, an M.2 port, as well as USB 3.0 Type-C and USB 3.0 ports.

As RAM we used two 8GB modules G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 3200 (CL15-15-15-35) as well as two 8GB modules Geil EvoX DDR4 3200 (CL16-16-16-36), all of which ran smoothly.

Commissioning and technical data

The new test system and the methodology we have already described in great detail in the basic article "So we are testing graphics cards, as of February 2017" and so we now only refer to this detailed description for the sake of simplicity. So if you want to read everything again, you are welcome to do so.

In this case, only the hardware configuration with CPU, RAM, motherboard, as well as the new cooling is different, so that the summary in table form quickly gives a brief overview of the system used here and today: