AMD Ryzen 3 1200 & Ryzen 3 1300X Linux Performance

First up was the Parboil scientific workload, which makes use of OpenMP for multi-threading. The Ryzen 3 1200 was coming in line with the old FX-8350 and FX-8370 Bulldozer CPUs... As a reminder, the FX-8350 was an eight-core part with 4.0GHz base clock and 4.2GHz turbo while having a 125 Watt TDP. The FX-8370 eight-core CPU meanwhile had a 4.0GHz base frequency and 4.3GHz turbo while still having a 125 Watt TDP for the 32nm processor. The Ryzen 3 CPUs come in with a 65 Watt TDP. While the Ryzen 3 1200 was pacing with the old FX CPUs, the Ryzen 3 1300X to some surprising was running in line with a Core i5 6600K for this particular workload. The i5-6600K Skylake CPU is still retailing for above $200 USD.

With John The Ripper's heavily parallel crypto workloads, the Ryzen 3 CPUs tested didn't show off like they did in the first OpenMP benchmark. With John The Ripper's Blowfish task, the Ryzen 3 1200 was running in line with the A10-7870K APU and faster than the Core i5 2500K Sandy Bridge but behind the Core i3 7100. The Ryzen 3 1300X was at least coming out ahead of Intel's similarly-priced i3-7100 Kabylake CPU while was just shortly ahead of the Core i5 4670.

With the CPU-based TTSIOD 3D renderer, the AMD CPUs have traditionally done very well and with the Ryzen 3 CPUs it's no different with the Ryzen 3 1200 even competing with Skylake Core i5 CPUs while the Ryzen 3 1300X was just ahead of a Core i5 7600K.