AMD Ryzen 3 1300X & 1200 Performance Review

CineBench R15 64-bit

The latest benchmark from MAXON, Cinebench R15 makes use of all your system’s processing power to render a photorealistic 3D scene using various different algorithms to stress all available processor cores. The test scene contains approximately 2,000 objects containing more than 300,000 total polygons and uses sharp and blurred reflections, area lights and shadows, procedural shaders, antialiasing, and much more. This particular benchmarking can measure systems with up to 64 processor threads. The result is given in points (pts). The higher the number, the faster your processor. 

PCMark 8

PCMark 8 is the latest iteration of Futuremark’s system benchmark franchise. It generates an overall score based upon system performance with all components being stressed in one way or another. The result is posted as a generalized score. In this case, we didn’t use the Accelerated benchmark but rather just used the standard Computational results which cut out OpenCL from the equation.

WPrime

wPrime is a leading multithreaded benchmark for x86 processors that tests your processor performance by calculating square roots with a recursive call of Newton’s method for estimating functions, with f(x)=x2-k, where k is the number we’re squaring, until Sgn(f(x)/f'(x)) does not equal that of the previous iteration, starting with an estimation of k/2. It then uses an iterative calling of the estimation method a set amount of times to increase the accuracy of the results. It then confirms that n(k)2=k to ensure the calculation was correct. It repeats this for all numbers from 1 to the requested maximum. This is a highly multi-threaded workload. Below are the scores for the 1024M benchmark. 

The Cinebench multi core results have quite a strong showing for AMD’s two new chips with the 1300X handily beating Intel’s 7300 and actually coming close to the i5-7500. The Ryzen 3 1200 did pretty well too but there’s a massive gap between the Ryzen 3 CPUs due to the 1200’s very low frequencies.

Moving on to PCMark and there’s not really much different to talk about with the 1300X and 1200 trading blows with Intel’s i3 series depending on the workload. WPrime backs this up too but again the 1300X shows some amazing results while the 1200 lags quite far behind even though it does beat the 7100 by a narrow margin.