Game Benchmarks
We are going to look at gaming performance now using built-in game benchmarks in three different modern games. To get a full perspective on performance we are going to run a benchmark at 1080p with “Low” in-game settings, then we are also going to run a benchmark with “Ultra” (or max settings) at 1440p. The video card we are using on all testing is an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition with latest drivers.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint
First we are going to run Ghost Recon Breakpoint. We are running the game in the Vulkan API.
At 1080p with “Low” settings there is a performance difference between AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and Intel Core i3-9100F. The AMD Ryzen 3 3100 CPU is 6% faster in framerate.
Even with the game set at “Ultimate” settings at 1440p the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 still produces 3% better framerate performance over the Intel Core i3-9100F.
Red Dead Redemption 2
In Red Dead Redemption 2 the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 is a pretty big 18% faster at 1080p with “Low” settings. It is as fast as the Intel Core i5-9400 here.
When we increase the settings in the game as high as possible at 1440p performance evens up. The AMD Ryzen 3 3100 is on par with Ryzen 3 3300X performance, which is only a couple of FPS below the Intel competition.
Metro Exodus
At 1080p with “Low” settings the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 is 4% faster than the Intel Core i3-9100F.
At 1440p we have turned the game up to the highest “Extreme” quality setting. The AMD Ryzen 3 3100 this time is sitting on the bottom in performance. The Ryzen 3 3300X offers a slight increase in performance, but the two Intel CPUs are a bit higher still. Other factors could be affecting this performance scaling. We would need to evaluate more games in a more thorough gameplay testing review to really hone in on all the differences. For the most part though the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 does offer a better experience compared to the Intel i3-9100F for gaming. The extra 4 threads keep it from being bottlenecked as much.