AMD Ryzen 3 1200 & Ryzen 3 1300X Linux Performance

For this Ryzen 3 1200/1300X Linux comparison, with these CPUs being kindly provided by AMD, I ran all tests from Ubuntu 17.04 x86_64 with the Linux 4.13 kernel, matching the tests I finished up a few weeks back for our latest large Linux CPU comparison.

The Ryzen hardware was tested on an MSI X370 TITANIUM GAMING motherboard, 2 x 8GB Corsair DDR4-3200MHz (and indeed running at that frequency for all these tests), MSI Radeon RX 580 graphics card, and 256GB Intel 600p NVMe M.2 SSD.

The comparison systems for this testing included the:

- AMD A10-7870K
- AMD FX-8350
- AMD FX-8370
- AMD FX-8370E
- AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
- AMD Ryzen 5 1400
- AMD Ryzen 7 1700
- AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
- Intel Pentium G4400
- Intel Core i3 4130
- Intel Core i3 7100
- Intel Core i5 2500K
- Intel Core i5 4670
- Intel Core i5 6500
- Intel Core i5 6600K
- Intel Core i5 7600K
- Intel Core i7 3770K
- Intel Core i7 4790K
- Intel Core i7 4960X
- Intel Core i7 5775C
- Intel Core i7 5960X
- Intel Core i7 6800K
- Intel Core i7 7700K
- Intel Core i7 7740X
- Intel Core i9 7900X

Based upon the systems I had available for testing at the time in our Linux benchmarking lab. All of these benchmarks were facilitated in a fully-automated and reproducible manner using the open-source Phoronix Test Suite software.

The primary competition for these two Ryzen 3 CPUs in this comparison is the Core i3 7100 Kabylake. The Intel Core i3 7100 is priced around $120, right between the Ryzen 3 1200 and Ryzen 3 1300X. The i3-7100 is dual-core plus Hyper Threading so four threads and a base frequency of 3.9GHz but without any Turbo Boost. The Core i3 7100 has a 51 Watt TDP.

Following these raw Linux CPU performance results are various Ryzen Linux gaming benchmarks and system power consumption metrics. As stated earlier, additional Ryzen 3 Linux tests will be coming in the days ahead once I've had more time to spend with these processors.