AMD Ryzen 3 1300X Quad-Core CPU Review

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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