The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza
by Dr. Ian Cutress on May 7, 2020 9:00 AM ESTCPU Performance: New Tests!
As part of our ever on-going march towards a better rounded view of the performance of these processors, we have a few new tests for you that we’ve been cooking in the lab. Some of these new benchmarks provide obvious talking points, others are just a bit of fun. Most of them are so new we’ve only run them on a few processors so far. It will be interesting to hear your feedback!
NAMD ApoA1
One frequent request over the years has been for some form of molecular dynamics simulation. Molecular dynamics forms the basis of a lot of computational biology and chemistry when modeling specific molecules, enabling researchers to find low energy configurations or potential active binding sites, especially when looking at larger proteins. We’re using the NAMD software here, or Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics, often cited for its parallel efficiency. Unfortunately the version we’re using is limited to 64 threads on Windows, but we can still use it to analyze our processors. We’re simulating the ApoA1 protein for 10 minutes, and reporting back the ‘nanoseconds per day’ that our processor can simulate. Molecular dynamics is so complex that yes, you can spend a day simply calculating a nanosecond of molecular movement.
Crysis CPU Render
One of the most oft used memes in computer gaming is ‘Can It Run Crysis?’. The original 2007 game, built in the Crytek engine by Crytek, was heralded as a computationally complex title for the hardware at the time and several years after, suggesting that a user needed graphics hardware from the future in order to run it. Fast forward over a decade, and the game runs fairly easily on modern GPUs, but we can also apply the same concept to pure CPU rendering – can the CPU render Crysis? Since 64 core processors entered the market, one can dream. We built a benchmark to see whether the hardware can.
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For this test, we’re running Crysis’ own GPU benchmark, but in CPU render mode. This is a 2000 frame test, which we run over a series of resolutions from 800x600 up to 1920x1080.
Crysis CPU Render Frames Per Second |
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AnandTech | 800 x600 |
1024 x768 |
1280 x800 |
1366 x768 |
1600 x900 |
1920 x1080 |
AMD | ||||||
Ryzen 9 4900HS | 11.50 | 8.75 | 7.44 | 6.83 | 5.21 | 4.30 |
Ryzen 5 3600 | 9.98 | 7.84 | 6.69 | 6.15 | 4.75 | 3.92 |
Ryzen 3 3300X | 8.42 | 6.52 | 5.43 | 5.01 | 3.92 | 3.07 |
Ryzen 3 3100 | 7.50 | 5.78 | 4.87 | 4.5 | 3.54 | 2.77 |
Intel | ||||||
Core i7-7700K | 7.63 | 5.87 | 4.95 | 4.55 | 3.57 | 2.79 |
Core i7-9750H | 6.78 | 5.17 | 4.37 | 3.99 | 3.12 | 2.46 |
Dwarf Fortress
Another long standing request for our benchmark suite has been Dwarf Fortress, a popular management/roguelike indie video game, first launched in 2006. Emulating the ASCII interfaces of old, this title is a rather complex beast, which can generate environments subject to millennia of rule, famous faces, peasants, and key historical figures and events. The further you get into the game, depending on the size of the world, the slower it becomes.
DFMark is a benchmark built by vorsgren on the Bay12Forums that gives two different modes built on DFHack: world generation and embark. These tests can be configured, but range anywhere from 3 minutes to several hours. I’ve barely scratched the surface here, but after analyzing the test, we ended up going for three different world generation sizes.
Interestingly Intel's hardware likes Dwarf Fortress.
We also have other benchmarks in the wings, such as AI Benchmark (ETH), LINPACK, and V-Ray, however they still require a bit of tweaking to get working it seems.
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PeterCollier - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
I'm expressing my informed opinion, what's your issue?Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
informed opinion ?? yea rightDeicidium369 - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
Don't mind Korguz - he never offers anything to the conversation... the is a hard core AMD shill who thinks he makes his point by calling other people Intel shills. He is a bit creepy - he will follow you on multiple forums...Just ignore him - he has nothing.
Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
and you can also ignore Deicidium369, he cant get is OWN personal facts straight, and also gives false information on another site, so anything he says are lies, and BS calls me a hardcore amd shill, but yet, says NOTHING positive about amd, but praises intel like a god, go figure" He is a bit creepy - he will follow you on multiple forums... " FYI there are others that know about your other post that are full of mis information, and call you out on it to, and your response, just like here, name calling, insults, and condescending remarks, this is why you were banned from tom's, was it not ?
Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
" Just ignore him - he has nothing. " oh i do, do " ?take a look that these 2 pics here :
in the 1st pic, he states he retired @ 28, 20 years ago( year 2000 ), then a few days later claims he started, and built up a complete woodshop business 40 years ago, which using his " retired at 28 " BS, as a reference, would of made him EIGHT years old. so either he is a lier, or he cant get his facts straight. the only reason to listen to him, is cause his posts are comedy gold
i wonder what BS he will type for this now
Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
https://imgur.com/a/s9Ift1pPeterCollier - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
Thanks, I'll make a mental note to ignore him.Spunjji - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
This comment is absolutely hilarious. Korguz mocks PeterCollier for accusing Ian and AnandTech of anti-Intel bias, and Deicidium369 chimes in saying it's because... *drumroll* Korguz is a "hard core AMD shill". Even better is that PeterCollier goes on to agree.Peter and Deicidium make a great pairing - two sides to the same demented coin.
PeterCollier - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
Your obsession with certain posters is concerning.Spunjji - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
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