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Best Bench: 89% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 69% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg)

Poor: 69% Great: 89%

SPEED RANK: 242^nd / 1442

Gaming 80%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 68%

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Best Bench: 122% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.25 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 97% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 6.95 GHz (avg)

Poor: 97% Great: 122%

SPEED RANK: 37^th / 1442

Gaming 112%

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Desktop 114%

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Workstation 118%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		79.7 %			112 %	Much faster effective speed. +40%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	77.3 Pts	80.7 Pts	+4%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	137 Pts	207 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +51%
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	257 Pts	406 Pts	Much faster dual-core speed. +58%
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	443 Pts	766 Pts	Much faster quad-core speed. +73%
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	662 Pts	1369 Pts	Hugely faster octa-core speed. +107%


Memory OC Memory Latency	87.6 Pts	91.9 Pts	+5%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	147 Pts	217 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +48%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	289 Pts	433 Pts	Much faster OC dual-core speed. +50%
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	500 Pts	843 Pts	Much faster OC quad-core speed. +69%
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	748 Pts	1618 Pts	Hugely faster OC octa-core speed. +116%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.03 %		0.28 %	Hugely higher market share. +833%
Value Value For Money	94.4 %		112 %	Better value. +18%
User Rating UBM User Rating	70 %		70 %
Price Price (score)	$150	Much cheaper. +46%	$279


Age Newest	47 Months		19 Months	Much more recent. +60%
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watts	Much more energy efficient. +38%	105 Watts
Cores CPU Processing Cores	4 cores		8 cores	Hugely higher core count. +100%
Threads CPU Processing Threads	8 threads		16 threads	Hugely higher thread count. +100%
Lithography Manufacturing process	7 nm		5 nm	Newer manufacturing. +29%
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.8 GHz		4.5 GHz	Faster base frequency. +18%
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	4.3 GHz		5.4 GHz	Faster turbo frequency. +26%
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	753 Pts		1996 Pts	Hugely faster OC 64-core speed. +165%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	677 Pts		1873 Pts	Hugely faster 64-core speed. +177%


Series CPU Architecture	Zen2	Zen4
Socket Motherboard Socket	AM4	AM5
Graphics Integrated Graphics	None	RDNA2

The 3300X is a 4-core Ryzen CPU. Priced at just $120 USD, it offers far better value to gamers than all the previous Ryzen CPUs. This is great news for potential buyers, but bad luck for gamers that recently spent nearly three times more on the 8-core 3700X. The reduction from eight to four cores results in more efficient caching and higher boost clocks. AMD’s marketing has abruptly broken from the firmly established “moar cores” mantra to a conveniently realistic: four cores are actually okay. Shifting goalposts this quickly reveals an unhealthy focus on first time buyers and a brazen disregard for existing customers. Sales tactics aside, unfortunately the 3300X remains constrained by architectural latency and the associated gaming bottleneck (frame drops). Comparing an overclocked 3300X pegged at 4425 MHz to a stock Intel Core i3-10100 running at 4100 MHz shows that the i3-10100 delivers better gaming performance in four out of five games. The 10100 also includes an iGPU with QuickSync hardware encoding. Since additional cores make little difference to gamers, there are no significant upgrades beyond the 3300X in the Ryzen product stack. In order to achieve better gaming performance, it is necessary to upgrade to a higher tier Intel CPU. Despite the barrage of anonymous hearsay pushed on social media, users will be hard pressed to find actual use cases that favor the 3300X over the i3-10100, especially when the 10100 is not handicapped by 2666 MHz RAM. Gamers are bottlenecked by the Ryzen architecture and desktop users need integrated graphics. ^{[Jun '20 CPUPro]}

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Within minutes of the first, pre-release, 7000 series userbenchmark results, AMD’s marketers broadcast a 20% win over the 12900K via thousands of anonymous twitter, reddit, forum and youtube accounts. Buying new AMD products is like buying used cars: it takes time, experience and a taste for sales hype. It’s difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominates “sponsored news” and social media channels. Ten years ago, when AMD was the underdog, this type of marketing was understandable. Today, with a capitalization of $150 Billion USD, it’s disrespectful to AMD's own users. Even with Intel's marketing department asleep at the wheel, Ryzen will quickly end up in the same state as Radeon. Following a series of overhyped releases, consumers have little interest in the Radeon brand. The combined market share for all of AMD’s (discrete) Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs (Steam stats) is just 2%. Although the new 7000 series Zen4 CPUs are actually around 15% faster than their predecessors, they have hefty cooling requirements (TDP +60% vs 5000 series), 30 second BIOS post times, expensive DDR5 RAM requirements and only work with expensive motherboards. Despite the 7000 series struggling to match Intel’s outgoing 12th gen, AMD market it as a “future proof” platform! They want users to pay a premium for last gen performance in exchange for the shallow promise of upgrades in the future. Over the next few days, Intel’s 13th gen (Raptor Lake) will launch. Shoppers will do well to wait until then. Despite AMD’s Neanderthal marketing techniques, it’s hard not to admire their technical progress. AMD-Raptor4 and Intel-Zen13 would be better fitting product names. ^{[Sep '22 CPUPro]}

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