AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs AMD Ryzen 3 1200

AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 4 / Aug 2018
AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
AMD Ryzen 3 1200
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3100 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jun 2017
AMD Ryzen 3 1200

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 3 2300X

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.
Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.
Higher overall performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 3 1200

None

AMD Ryzen 3 2300X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 3 2300X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD Ryzen 3 1200
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
Precision Boost
3DNow!
CnQ
NX bit

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD Ryzen 3 1200
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsAMD Zen
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsZen
Release DateAug 2018vsJun 2017

Cores

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD Ryzen 3 1200
Cores4vs4
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD Ryzen 3 1200
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs512 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4096 KB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD Ryzen 3 1200
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket AM4
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageµOPGA-1331vsuPGA
Die Size210mm²vs192mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD Ryzen 3 1200
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs3100 MHz
Turbo Clock4200 MHzvs3400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP65 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
    4620 points
  • AMD Ryzen 3 1200
    3740 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
    15400 points
  • AMD Ryzen 3 1200
    13640 points

Points - higher is better