AMD’s Zen 2 architecture has turned out to be a particular boon for its budget CPU line. According to recent Time Spy benchmarks spotted by _rogame, a Ryzen 3 3100 processor can reach an all-core overclock of 4.6 GHz. That’s pretty impressive for a $99 chip. Likewise, its bigger brother – the Ryzen 3 3300X, which costs just $20 more ($120) – can hit 4.4 GHz on all cores.
The Ryzen 3 3100 overclock was performed on an ASRock X570 Pro4 motherboard with 16 GB of Corsair DDR4-3200 RAM, while the Ryzen 3 3300X overclock utilized an ASUS TUF B450M-PRO GAMING with 16 GB of Kingston DDR4 RAM running at 3,798 MHz. It isn’t clear what cooling solutions were used, but being budget CPUs, it’s safe to assume that a traditional air cooler was used (maybe the stock Wraith, even).
Time Spy
— _rogame (@_rogame) April 30, 2020
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core Processor
4.4GHz all core OC
2x8GB DDR4 3800MHz
CPU score : 5472
R3 3100 4.5GHz OC : 5481 pic.twitter.com/VAOgYb0jIw
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— _rogame (@_rogame) April 30, 2020
R3 3100
4.6GHz all core OC pic.twitter.com/1AvJ4cvoFG
AMD’s new Ryzen 3 processors are expected to ship out sometime this month. The Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 feature a boost/base frequency of 4.3/3.8 GHz and 3.9/3.6 GHz, respectively. Both are 4C/8T chips with a 65-watt TDP.