**AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Review: Performance Analysis**

In this review, we'll be examining the performance of AMD's Ryzen 3000 series, specifically the Ryzen 1400X, Ryzen 1600X, and Ryzen 1200X. Our methodology involves simulating these CPUs in various workloads to provide a comprehensive understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.

**Gaming Benchmarks**

At 1080p, our virtual CPU simulation shows that the Ryzen 1400X performs better than its lower clocked but pricier counterpart, the Ryzen 1700X. The 1400X's higher base frequency is evident in its performance, with it outperforming the 1600X in games like DSX Mankind Divided and For Honor. However, GTA V shows a more significant lead for the Intel Core i7-7700K, while Ghost Recon: Wildlands reveals that the 7700K's single-threaded performance is superior to the Ryzen series.

In contrast, Doom and Crisis 3 favor the Intel Core i7-7700K, with the Ryzen series making a linear slope in their performance. The 1200X falls behind in these games due to its limited number of cores and threads. Our analysis suggests that while the Ryzen 1400X performs well in some games, it still trails behind the Intel Core i7-7700K.

**Synthetic Benchmarks**

3D Mark and Szip results show that the Ryzen platform generally outperforms the 7700K until reaching a quad-core point. The Ryzen 1600X outperforms its more expensive Intel rival in synthetic benchmarks, demonstrating its competitive performance.

PC Mark is another highlight for AMD, with the 1400X's performance being close to that of the 1800X. Our methodology benefited the 1400X in this test, as it did in the previous games. The 1600X also pulls ahead in single-threaded tests but falls behind in multi-threaded ones.

Cinebench 2 results are fairly predictable, with only one outlier where the Intel Core i7 beats the Ryzen 1400X. Asus RealBench shows a preference for clock speed, with image editing and encoding favoring higher thread counts.

**Pricing and Value**

Our analysis of performance per dollar reveals that the Ryzen 1600X hits the sweet spot in terms of value, offering 1800X-like performance at a lower price point. The 1400X is also a solid value proposition, considering its thread count and decent single-threaded performance.

However, the Ryzen 1200X's rumored price of $149 puts it at a disadvantage due to AMD's marketing emphasis on thread count. At this price point, the 1200X becomes AMD's second-best performer per dollar, making it an excellent option for budget-conscious buyers.

**Conclusion and Future Analysis**

While our methodology may not be exact, the results paint a clear picture of the Ryzen 3000 series' performance capabilities. We've highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of each CPU in various workloads, providing valuable insights for potential buyers.

However, there's still much to be discovered about these CPUs, particularly regarding their overclocking potential and heat generation. As we move forward with this series, we'll continue to monitor the Ryzen 3000 series' performance, providing more detailed analysis as needed.

**The PC Build**

In a surprising turn of events, our team built a compact VR-ready gaming PC using the AMD Ryzen 1400X, a GTX 1070, and a Skylake Core i5 6400T. This tiny powerhouse measures just 8.27 x 7 x 2.45 inches, weighing in at under 8 pounds.

With its quiet operation and lightweight design, this PC is genuinely portable. The included features, such as dual HDMI 2.0 ports and compatibility with high-speed NVMe SSDs, make it an attractive option for those seeking a compact gaming solution.

To learn more about the build and how to get your own, check out the link in our video description. Additionally, be sure to visit our merch store and community Forum to join the discussion and stay up-to-date on the latest PC building news.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enguys guys you won't believe where I've been or when I've returned from the far off time of Q3 2017 after the launches of amd's ryzen 5 and ryzen 3 and you don't want to know what happens between now and then but anyway that's not important right now what is important is I've brought back a little souvenir Welcome to our ear early preview of ryzen 3 and ryzen 5 the Phoenix oour is a full-sized minimalistically designed keyboard complete with Cherry MX switches and a new white backlit variant check it out at the link below okay okay so I'm no do brown and I drive a Lambo not a DeLorean so we should just get this out of the way right now we don't actually have a ryzen 5 or a ryzen 3 chip or do we no no we don't this right here is our ryzen 7 1800x and what we're going to do is use our Motherboard BIOS to match the core counts and frequencies that AMD has announced and see how they might stack up you may have your doubts about this method but we've demonstrated in the past that it works shockingly well in this video here so which chips will we be testing then well aside from our ryzen 7 1800x and 1700x as real world baselines and a core i7 7700 K to rep present the blue team we're taking the ryzen 5600x and 1400x and the ryzen 3 1200X Forest spin we'll be doing it all with our replacement Asus crossair 6-based ryzen test bench and as for our GPU we'll be testing with our new FPS per dollar high performance King the GTX 1080 TI now considering that the highest clocked r 5 CPU is still a 3.6 GHz base 4 GHz boost chip the same as the 1800x we're pretty certain that we're not going to see any performance difference in single-threaded tasks with the 1600 X making it slower in multi-threaded workloads but potentially a wicked gaming chip there are some things to keep in mind with these tests as amd's Precision boost is disable AED the moment a custom frequency is set we've had to lock the frequencies of our slower clocked virtual CPUs since Precision boost and xfr only kicked in in lightly threaded workloads in our testing we chose to split the difference between their base frequencies and maximum xfr clocks that is 3.75 GHz for the 1400x and 3.6 GHz for the 1200X this clearly isn't 100 100% accurate particularly since that puts our lower end chips running at a higher base frequency while at full loads it should still give us a ballpark representation for our overall performance analysis across all of our tests finally we're uncertain at this time whether disabling cores on ryzen also disables extra cash so do keep that in mind with all that boring stuff out of the way now though let's kick it off with our gaming benchmarks today at 1080p since these are mid-range CPUs that we're simulating we see our virtual 1600x performing better in DSX mankind divided than the lower clocked but pricier 1700x rise of the Tomb Raider shows us more of the same while for Honor shows our, 1400x also performing well with its higher base frequency sadly an artifact of our methodology since ryzen doesn't boost for that long at full load GTA 5 clearly will take all the course and Cycles it can get while Ghost Recon wildlands on the other hand shows only the i7 7700 K's single-threaded performance pulling away with a measurable lead Doom gives the 7700k a much more significant lead with the ryzen series making a pretty linear slope at after that and finally like GTA 5 Crisis 3 shows again a thirst for everything with our 1200 X falling far behind thanks to its mere four cores and four threads moving on to synthetics 3D Mark shows our ryzen platform generally outperforming the 7700k until we get all the way to our quad course and the same is true of szip where even our 1600x outperforms its more expensive Intel rival PC Mark is another highlight for AMD the 1600 X's performance is close to the 1800x and another instance where our methodology benefited our 1400x in a way that won't quite hold true in the real world the 1600x again pulls ahead in the single-threaded Y cruncher test but our multi-threaded test brings us closer to a kind of linear slope cinebench 2 shows us fairly predictable results and except for the i7 which only beats the much cheaper quadcore ryzen chips rounding our test out Asus realbench shows us its preference for clock speed for image editing thread count on encoding and a combination of the two in heavy multitasking with our benches stacking up accordingly but to put all of that performance stuff in the appropriate perspective we need to look at pricing at24 9 the 1600x seems to hit the sweet spot with its 1800x like performance in everything but our most multi-threaded benchmarks the 1400x at 169 seems like a really solid value too considering its thread parody with our i7 and decent scoring which lands it at the top of the pack for performance per dollar the 1200X rumored at 149 is uh well amd's marketing is all about thread count and with only four ryzen just isn't pulling quite as much weight however at that price it's actually our second best performer per dollar placing it in an excellent position for a budget CPU and if you've watched our ryzen OC guide you're probably thinking that this one is actually much closer to the ath XP 2500 plus than the 1700x and you wouldn't necessarily be wrong though something our 8 core processor cannot simulate is how hot these chips will run or how well they'll overclock so that all remains to be seen so with all of that said then we have to stress again that this isn't an exact measurement in particular our 1400x and 1200X scores are likely suffering from the loss of PR ision boost but taken with a grain of salt these results should paint a pretty clear and pretty exciting picture one that we can't wait to verify against the real deal Zotac magnus1 series is one of the smallest VR ready gaming PCs available measuring at just 8.27 by7 by 2.45 in it's quiet while operating and it's light we at less than 8 lb making it genuinely portable you can even get it with an NVIDIA GTX 1070 to go along with its skylet Core i5 6400t its dual HDMI 2.0 ports and its compatibility for high-speed nvme ssds you can learn more at the link in the video description and get your own so thanks for watching guys if this video suck dislike but if it was good then like it get subscribed for more videos like it and check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description also down there is a link to our merch store and our community Forum which you should totally joinguys guys you won't believe where I've been or when I've returned from the far off time of Q3 2017 after the launches of amd's ryzen 5 and ryzen 3 and you don't want to know what happens between now and then but anyway that's not important right now what is important is I've brought back a little souvenir Welcome to our ear early preview of ryzen 3 and ryzen 5 the Phoenix oour is a full-sized minimalistically designed keyboard complete with Cherry MX switches and a new white backlit variant check it out at the link below okay okay so I'm no do brown and I drive a Lambo not a DeLorean so we should just get this out of the way right now we don't actually have a ryzen 5 or a ryzen 3 chip or do we no no we don't this right here is our ryzen 7 1800x and what we're going to do is use our Motherboard BIOS to match the core counts and frequencies that AMD has announced and see how they might stack up you may have your doubts about this method but we've demonstrated in the past that it works shockingly well in this video here so which chips will we be testing then well aside from our ryzen 7 1800x and 1700x as real world baselines and a core i7 7700 K to rep present the blue team we're taking the ryzen 5600x and 1400x and the ryzen 3 1200X Forest spin we'll be doing it all with our replacement Asus crossair 6-based ryzen test bench and as for our GPU we'll be testing with our new FPS per dollar high performance King the GTX 1080 TI now considering that the highest clocked r 5 CPU is still a 3.6 GHz base 4 GHz boost chip the same as the 1800x we're pretty certain that we're not going to see any performance difference in single-threaded tasks with the 1600 X making it slower in multi-threaded workloads but potentially a wicked gaming chip there are some things to keep in mind with these tests as amd's Precision boost is disable AED the moment a custom frequency is set we've had to lock the frequencies of our slower clocked virtual CPUs since Precision boost and xfr only kicked in in lightly threaded workloads in our testing we chose to split the difference between their base frequencies and maximum xfr clocks that is 3.75 GHz for the 1400x and 3.6 GHz for the 1200X this clearly isn't 100 100% accurate particularly since that puts our lower end chips running at a higher base frequency while at full loads it should still give us a ballpark representation for our overall performance analysis across all of our tests finally we're uncertain at this time whether disabling cores on ryzen also disables extra cash so do keep that in mind with all that boring stuff out of the way now though let's kick it off with our gaming benchmarks today at 1080p since these are mid-range CPUs that we're simulating we see our virtual 1600x performing better in DSX mankind divided than the lower clocked but pricier 1700x rise of the Tomb Raider shows us more of the same while for Honor shows our, 1400x also performing well with its higher base frequency sadly an artifact of our methodology since ryzen doesn't boost for that long at full load GTA 5 clearly will take all the course and Cycles it can get while Ghost Recon wildlands on the other hand shows only the i7 7700 K's single-threaded performance pulling away with a measurable lead Doom gives the 7700k a much more significant lead with the ryzen series making a pretty linear slope at after that and finally like GTA 5 Crisis 3 shows again a thirst for everything with our 1200 X falling far behind thanks to its mere four cores and four threads moving on to synthetics 3D Mark shows our ryzen platform generally outperforming the 7700k until we get all the way to our quad course and the same is true of szip where even our 1600x outperforms its more expensive Intel rival PC Mark is another highlight for AMD the 1600 X's performance is close to the 1800x and another instance where our methodology benefited our 1400x in a way that won't quite hold true in the real world the 1600x again pulls ahead in the single-threaded Y cruncher test but our multi-threaded test brings us closer to a kind of linear slope cinebench 2 shows us fairly predictable results and except for the i7 which only beats the much cheaper quadcore ryzen chips rounding our test out Asus realbench shows us its preference for clock speed for image editing thread count on encoding and a combination of the two in heavy multitasking with our benches stacking up accordingly but to put all of that performance stuff in the appropriate perspective we need to look at pricing at24 9 the 1600x seems to hit the sweet spot with its 1800x like performance in everything but our most multi-threaded benchmarks the 1400x at 169 seems like a really solid value too considering its thread parody with our i7 and decent scoring which lands it at the top of the pack for performance per dollar the 1200X rumored at 149 is uh well amd's marketing is all about thread count and with only four ryzen just isn't pulling quite as much weight however at that price it's actually our second best performer per dollar placing it in an excellent position for a budget CPU and if you've watched our ryzen OC guide you're probably thinking that this one is actually much closer to the ath XP 2500 plus than the 1700x and you wouldn't necessarily be wrong though something our 8 core processor cannot simulate is how hot these chips will run or how well they'll overclock so that all remains to be seen so with all of that said then we have to stress again that this isn't an exact measurement in particular our 1400x and 1200X scores are likely suffering from the loss of PR ision boost but taken with a grain of salt these results should paint a pretty clear and pretty exciting picture one that we can't wait to verify against the real deal Zotac magnus1 series is one of the smallest VR ready gaming PCs available measuring at just 8.27 by7 by 2.45 in it's quiet while operating and it's light we at less than 8 lb making it genuinely portable you can even get it with an NVIDIA GTX 1070 to go along with its skylet Core i5 6400t its dual HDMI 2.0 ports and its compatibility for high-speed nvme ssds you can learn more at the link in the video description and get your own so thanks for watching guys if this video suck dislike but if it was good then like it get subscribed for more videos like it and check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description also down there is a link to our merch store and our community Forum which you should totally join\n"