AMD Ryzen 3 1300X & 1200 Performance Review

POV Ray 3.7

POV Ray is a complex yet simple to use freeware ray tracing program which has the ability to efficiently use multiple CPU cores in order to speed up rendering output. For this test, we use its built-in benchmark feature which renders a high definition scene. The rendering time to completion is logged and then listed below. 

WinRAR

WinRAR is one of those free tools that everyone seems to use. Its compression and decompression algorithms are fully multi-core aware which allows for a significant speedup when processing files. In this test we compress a 3GB folder of various files and add a 256-bit encryption key. Once again the number listed is the time to completion. 

Even POV Ray shows these very good numbers so it looks like there are certain applications that really do benefit from four physical cores while others seem to prefer Intel’s higher clock speeds and SMT.

WinRAR is a bit of a mess for AMD unfortunately since it has integrated optimizations for Intel processors and it only uses a few processing threads. That’s the perfect storm for AMD and they lose by a big margin.