AMD Ryzen 3 Summit Ridge 1300X BOX (YD130XBBAEBOX)

High performance at a modest price

For buyers who are not ready to overpay for new Rayzen technologies, AMD has released the junior Ryzen 3rd revision, which provides the user with the optimal 4 cores for today, sufficient power, support for the modern AM4 platform and the same 14 nm manufacturing process. And all this with a very affordable price tag.

In standard mode, the quad-core 1300X boasts a clock speed of 3.5 GHz, which automatically rises to 3.7 GHz under heavy loads. The temperature does not exceed 49°C even with a standard cooler, for which the processor can only be praised.

Ahead of the competition

The main difference between the 1300X and older Ryzen models is the L3 cache cut to 8 MB and SMT multithreading disabled. On the one hand, this is a minus. On the other hand, the main competitor Intel i3-7350K has only 4 MB of L2 cache.

In general, the 1300X is capable of a lot for its price, and thanks to its good overclocking potential, it can successfully push not only with the new Core i3, but also with older processors from Intel like the i5-7400.

When overclocked to 3.8 GHz, the 1300X chip is only 5% behind the Intel Core i5-7400 in synthetic tests, and holds the same level in games. And this is an impressive 98 frames per second in Battlefield 1 at high graphics settings and Full HD resolution. Naturally, all this in the presence of a strong partner in the form of a graphics card of the caliber Radeon RX 560.