AMD Ryzen 3 1300X

AMD has been most relevant in the budget market for the past several years. This is where it retreated to when it couldn't keep up with Intel's advances, and it actually did fairly well by cutting prices and repositioning its formerly-high-end products....

AMD continues to dominate the CPU market with their Ryzen processors and the Ryzen 3 lineup is no exception. Intel's Core i3 lineup is all 2C/4T and have a locked multiplier while the Ryzen 3 lineup comes with four cores and a fully unlocked multiplier....

I remember the day when I got my first computer and it had an AMD Sempron processor in it, the first thing on my mind was whats an AMD and why is it not an Intel processor. This was the time that Intel held on to the lead so strong that they held on to...

The Ryzen 3 1300X might not be the best performing processor on paper, but it's still an unquestionable deal. For $20 less than the price of the Intel Core i3-7350K, you're getting a processor that performs almost just as well. What's more, those two...

For the mainstream consumer and market, we now have a complete picture of the Ryzen CPU family from AMD and I am impressed by the performance, capability, and completeness of the lineup. In a matter of just a few months, AMD has gone from irrelevant to revolutionary, rebooting the company in a way that seemed impossible just a few years ago. The Ryzen 3 1300X and 1200 are not rewriting the segment but they are reorganizing the way the sub-$150 processor market will unfold for 2017 and beyond.

AMD's Ryzen 3 1200 and Ryzen 3 1300X processors offer significant value, performance, and overclocking without breaking the bank, making them some of the best value buy CPUs on the market.

The Ryzen 3 1300X deserves to be the heart of a host of new, low-cost gaming PCs. It delivers more processing performance than equivalent chips in its weight class and has the gaming skills to let your graphics card stretch its silicon legs too. AMD are really nailing the CPU market right now - fingers crossed we’ll see the GPU side hold up their end of the bargain soon too.

With the mainstream Ryzen parts now fully released, all that's left now is for AMD to deliver some Ryzen APUs with integrated Vega graphics. Those are slated for release in the fall, and will use a completely different die. And now that we have a competitive AMD again, let's hope Zen+ can build on the elements that make Ryzen good, and improve on the areas where performance is still a bit low.

The star of the show at just £105 is the 1200, we dont think the performance you get from the 1300X is worth an extra £20 and would probably rule that one out like we did the 1800x vs the 1700 and just say its irrelevant if you are going to overclock and should only really buy it if you will leave it at stock because then the extra ££ for the clock speed makes sense. The 1200 however if your going to overclock is an absolute blinder for a budget gaming system and well worth the effort of overclocking one too!

One of the hallmarks of Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 processors was their versatility and that story marches on with Ryzen 3. While the 1300X takes the prize in my books, I nonetheless feel both of these CPUs rightly continue AMD’s market shakeup. It may have seemed that bringing great performance to lower price brackets was nothing more than a laudable goal but Ryzen 3 has taken that dream and turned it into a very tempting reality.