Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Firestrike
Straight away, we’re seeing a pretty decent score from the 1300X. Keep in mind this CPU is just £125, and it’s going again £300 to £900 CPUs here. Overclocking pulled almost +500 more in the benchmark, thanks to a modest overclock of 3.9GHz.
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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme
Unigine is a tough benchmark, but it is heavily GPU bound. What’s insane is that this quad core does actually perform better than anything else here, which I honestly found hilarious. This has been vigorously retested, it’s right. Overclocking closed the gap between all CPUs, they’re within a margin of error and scoring around 5500.
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PCMark 10
PCMark 10 is a great way to see overall system performance, and the 1300X scored damn close to the 5960X. When it comes to day-to-day system use and office work, it’s more than up to the job. We even saw a small boost with overclocking, which is nice.
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WPrime 32M and 1024M
WPrime separates the men from the boys when it comes to heavy duty computation, the 1300X just doesn’t have the legs for it; more cores are king here. Overclocking shaved 24 seconds from the time though, which is impressive.
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Cinebench R15
Cinebench made the CPU sweat it out too, it’ll get the job done. However, you’ll want the Ryzen 7 or the big Intel chips for these kind of workloads.
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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K
The same is true for Handbrake. If you want to convert the odd movie, it shouldn’t be a problem. Of course, those doing bigger work loads would want to invest in a more suitable CPU.
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Looks like the perfect chip for a midrange gaming machine; currently running a G3258 and haven’t felt any need to upgrade (web browsing, watching movies and games not very taxing) it’s running 4.5GHz on air quite happily! Do sometimes wonder if more cores would help, do get some pauses when multitasking or there’s a bunch of browser tabs open. Very happy to see AMD back in the CPU market, been no fan of their graphics hardware.
I run G3258 in my mini-ITX spare work rig and my girlfriends main PC. It’s amazing. Only problem is with games like Borderlands 2, it gets a little stuttery with higher graphics settings regardless of the GPU used, and worse now she has a 1440p display. The cores do help, but for the most part, it’s a real champ for day-to-day stuff. The 1200 and 1300X are in my opinion the AMD G3258. It’s almost twice the price, but it’s twice the cores too, so seems fair.