Available from July 27th RYZEN 3 Cpus are the least expensive cpu offering from AMD. First of all a quote from AMD's website,
AMD Ryzen™ 3 processors deliver responsive, unlocked performance for everything you do.
Before starting our review we would take a brief walkthrough of the key features of RYZEN series processors.
Key Features
ZEN Core Architecture
SenseMI Technology
It is a group of five technologies that helps to bring out the best from RYZEN CPUs.
- Pure Power
- Precision Boost
- Extended Frequenter Range(XFR)
- Neural Net Prediction
- Smart Prefetch
RYZEN Master Utility
It is an overclocking software to overclock your RYZEN 7/5/3 & Threadripper series of cpus. The app also have in built system monitoring.
You can download the app from here.
You can download the app from here.
RYZEN 3 1200
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| RYZEN 3 1200 Along With Gigabyte AX370-Gaming 5 |
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| The view on opening the box |
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| CPU and the Cooler |
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| The Wraith STEALTH Cooler |
Specifications
| CPU | RYZEN 3 1200 | RYZEN 3 1300X |
| Codename | Zen | Zen |
| Process | 14nm | 14nm |
| Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Threads | 4 | 4 |
| Base Frequency | 3.1Ghz | 3.5Ghz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3.4Ghz | 3.7Ghz |
| Cache(L2+L3) | 2+8MB | 2+8MB |
| No. Of Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Memory Supported | 2667MHz* DDR4 | 2667MHz* DDR4 |
| Overclockable | YES | YES |
| TDP | 65W | 65W |
| Socket | AM4 | AM4 |
| Bundled Cooler | Wraith Stealth | Wraith Stealth |
Test Bench
| CPU | AMD RYZEN 3 1200@3.1Ghz &3.8Ghz@1.29V |
| Board | Gigabyte AX370-GAMING 5 |
| RAM | 1X8GB Avexir DDR4(2400Mhz) |
| SSD | Sandisk Z400s 256GB,Adata SP610 128GB |
| HDD | WD 1TB Green |
| Cooler | AMD Wraith Stealth Cooler |
| GPU | Gigabyte 1050Ti G1 Gaming |
| PSU | Gigabyte B700H |
| Case | Deepcool Dukase V2 |
| OS | Windows 10 Single Language |
Benchmarks
The resolution for the all benchmarks are at 1080p.First of all some CPU tests,
From the benchmarks we see that overclocking the CPU yields in increase in all across the benchmarks somewhere it is minute like Unigine Heaven,Valley and Doom. However we see that in GeekBench 3&4 the overclocked RYZEN 3 1200 yields better score in single core while it decreases in multi core. In Crysis 3 and Battlefield 1 we see a decrease in fps(It is in the margin of error). In GTA V we were not able to complete the benchmark run because it was crashing when we oced the cpu to 3.8Ghz.
Our Verdict
Is it worth it?...........
If you are new to gaming or an a tight budget then it is definitely worth to buy,as it has a low clock speed you can overclock it to gain even more performance out of it. Here we paired it with a X370 board but we will recommend using a B350 board over this. A B350 board is available for cheap(from ₹6.5K onwards) so it will better over a A320 board and X370 would be an overkill.If you are planning to a make a HTPC where you would use a igpu then it is not worth to buy a RYZEN 3 as they don't have a igpu but if would be buying a external GPU they go for RYZEN 3 as it cheapest quad core cpu available on the market. A RYZEN 3 based platform# would cost more than Intel' i3 based platform# as RYZEN requires a dedicated gpu.
We overclocked using RYZEN MASTER utility as overclocking was not possible via BIOS(maybe they have locked it down due to current voltage issue or maybe some other issue). We will making a comparison blog on RYZEN 3 vs Intel cpus as well so stay tuned of that.
Buying Link-RYZEN 3 1200,Motherboards
Review Video, Comparison Blog & Video Coming soon.
And lastly thanks to AMD India for the RYZEN 3 1200 & Gigabyte India for the AX370-Gaming 5.
#A PC capable of basic tasks like office,web surfing,etc.
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