By Matt Hanson
AMD has been enjoying a resurgence this year with its launch of its high-end Ryzen 7 processors in March and mainstream Ryzen 5 CPUs in April, and now it has officially launched its entry level Ryzen 3 processors.
This new generation of Ryzen processors will be aimed at people building budget PCs who want to benefit from the advancements the Zen microarchitecture, which Ryzen 3 is based on, brings to PCs. These bonuses include a 52% increase in instructions per clock.
Initially there will be two Ryzen 3 processors released, and both will be quad-core CPUs with four threads and power draws of 65W.
The base CPU is the Ryzen 3 1200, which is clocked at 3.1GHz which can boost to 3.4GHz, while the more powerful Ryzen 3 1300X has a base clock of 3.5GHz, and a boost of 3.7GHz.
Benchmark results
While we’ve known about Ryzen 3 for a while now, with the official launch AMD has disclosed more detail about the new CPU, including a suite of benchmark results that pit the Ryzen 3 1300X against its main competitor – the Intel Core i3 7300.
According to benchmarks supplied by AMD, the 1300X is 29% faster than the i3 7300 in the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components