Gaming Performance
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Now we’re onto the good stuff with gaming tests, and we have some very interesting results to share with you. At stock 1080p in pretty much every test, the CPU does a fairly decent job. Of course, it’s lagging behind the big and expensive Intel chips on this chart, but well… duh! Keep an eye on the FPS average, it’s pretty decent overall. Overclocking brought a good gain in every single test too, showing that you can get more FPS from this budget chip.
Then things get extremely interesting. Dial the resolution up to 4K and the 1300X is keeping up and even competiting with the big boys. It just goes to show that with most modern games, those extra cores aren’t worth that much. Of course, the GTX 1080 Ti we’re doing needs to do the bulk of the lifting, so long as you’ve got a CPU that’s not causing throttling, you’re fine, and the 1300X clearly isn’t thottling the GPU here.
1080p Stock
1080p Overclocked
2160p Stock
2160p Overclocked
Rise of the Tomb Raider
1080p Stock
1080p Overclocked
2160p Stock
2160p Overclocked
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
1080p Stock
1080p Overclocked
2160p Stock
2160p Overclocked
Far Cry Primal
1080p Stock
1080p Overclocked
2160p Stock
2160p Overclocked
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.