I have a tiny mental breakdown every time I have to write these things. Just letting all of you know.
AMD is bringing all of the good of their 3rd gen Ryzen line’s Zen 2 architecture to the budget level. The Ryzen 3 3300X and Ryzen 3 3100 processors will hit the market in May, soon to be followed by the B550 motherboard 1 month later in June.
Per AMD’s press release on the matter:
AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
Continuing to demonstrate its leadership in the consumer desktop space, the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and AMD Ryzen 3 3300X represent the fastest ever AMD Ryzen 3 desktop processors2, bringing world class desktop performance to mainstream gamers. They also stand for AMD’s commitment to improving CPU performance and technologies for consumers by enabling SMT on a Ryzen 3 desktop processor for the very first time.
The processors take advantage of 18MB Cache, delivering dramatic memory latency reduction, translating directly to smoother, faster gaming performance for high framerates in CPU-heavy games. Further, with four cores, eight threads, and AMD SMT technology, the new Ryzen 3 processors provide incredible multitasking performance and responsiveness that consumers need.
AMD B550 Chipset
The new B550 chipset for socket AM4 is the latest addition to the AMD 500 Series chipset family with support for the industry-leading AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors. The upcoming B550 motherboards are the only mainstream modern chipset with compatibility for PCIe® 4.0, unlocking twice the bandwidth of B450 motherboards for high-speed, high-power performance in gaming and multitasking.
As for what this means for you? Well, the new processors are an inexpensive entry into PC gaming, with the Ryzen 3 3300X coming in at $120, and the Ryzen 3 3100 running you $99. They’re not as good as their predecessors for non-gaming workloads, though; but considering that this is targeted at budget gaming builds, that’s not much of a concern.
Source: PC Gamer
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