The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza
by Dr. Ian Cutress on May 7, 2020 9:00 AM EST*We are currently in the middle of revisiting our CPU gaming benchmarks, but the new suite was not ready in time for this review. We plan to add in some new games (Borderland 3, Gears Tactics) and also upgrade our gaming GPU to an RTX 2080 Ti.
Gaming: World of Tanks enCore
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for a new and unreleased graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine will implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine run optimally on their system.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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PeterCollier - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
Ugh, how much did Intel pay you for this article?kulareddy - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
How much did AMD pay you for this comment?callmebob - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
They paid him with old new stock of a dozen 1st gen Bulldozer CPUs.Just having the AMD logo on them will make him blissfully happy. No need to waste good products on him ;-)
kulareddy - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
👏👏👏PeterCollier - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
This makes no sense.Teckk - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
I genuinely want to understand why you think so?You really believe this article puts Intel's chips in a good light?
Would've preferred to see a set of different/recent processors in comparison but your comment is confusing lol.
Teckk - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
Arghhh .. meant as a reply to @PeterCollierkulareddy - Thursday, May 7, 2020 - link
👍PeterCollier - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
Yestwtech - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
I guess one point might be that in most of the comparisons, there are no higher-end AMD CPUs included. So you see that Intel's higher-end processors are better for gaming, but not that there are AMD options as well further up the chain.Even so, I think Intel holds the gaming FPS crown anyway for the moment, with their new 10900k (which isn't on this chart). That 5.3 boost clock should be pretty good for achieving maximal framerates.
Other than losing to Intel at max-FPS gaming though, AMD dominates all segments from a price/performance, raw performance, and power efficiency performance. Server, mobile, workstation, gaming, etc.