 Depending who you ask it can take a lot of effort and a lot of time to get to three But now we know that at least it's possible Congratulations AMD on making it to three Even if you had to count backwards from seven and skip a few numbers in between meet Ryzen 3 the entry level F you to the team in blue? Browse privately and securely with tunnel bear the simple VPN app start your seven-day free trial at the link in the video description So if you've been living under a rock for the past six months like I did that one time This release might have snuck up on you. It's okay We get it money doesn't grow on trees you got bills to pay and mouths to feed my right Well AMD figures There's a lot of truth to that and Ryzen 3 the final piece of the puzzle comes in at a hundred and ten to a hundred And thirty dollars and if you look at what Intel's done with Kabylake's Pentium lineup It is clear that they saw this coming and felt like they needed to react Where Pentium CPUs have been to core to thread only affairs for several generations? Now the CPUs that compete with Ryzen 3 on pricing are going to for thread using hyperthreading for the first time blurring the lines between Pentium and core i3 Which uh crap I guess I'm finally gonna have to redo this three-year-old video But is Intel's response even adequate? Ryzen 3 very pointedly doesn't have simultaneous multi-threading, but is instead a full-on Quad-core CPU made up of two of AMD's Zen compute complexes or CCX's this means that while it has only half the cache of its Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 cousins it has all the same features that they provide like sense MI precision boost and XFR though since AMD is still disabling core symmetrically cache latency is technically higher than if they had used a single CCX with four cores and And as we showed in our Ryzen 5 review while this method saves AMD some cost It also reduces the amount of total bandwidth available to the cache So the question becomes will we see an appreciable loss in performance and if so can Ryzen 3 keep up with the Best team blue has to offer within this price bracket Well AMD considers the closest price competitor to the Ryzen 3 1300X to be the core i3 7300 and the Ryzen 3 1200 to be the core i3 7100 and from a pricing standpoint This is roughly correct as for performance though AMD actually managed to pull out a solid win thanks to Ryzen 3's multi-threaded performance especially at these prices Consistently in nearly every area that doesn't involve purely single threaded performance Both Ryzen 3 chips handily beat out both of their Intel competitors Unfortunately for AMD that doesn't include most current games where dual core core i3s are able to pull off higher frame rates But with that said our use of a clean windows image for our testing Doesn't tell us how background processes might affect gaming performance on a system that actually has just two cores versus four true cores But even ignoring that when you crunch the numbers and look at the value proposition Ryzen 3 makes a lot of sense Not only does the 1300X never fall behind its team blue rival the Ryzen 3 1200 also makes a great showing It is certainly looking very bright overall for Ryzen 3 when you look at the big picture And there's yet another trick up Ryzen sleeve and that's overclocking Unlike Intel whose CPUs probably have a ton of headroom in them but are locked for overclocking Unless you shell out for a K series Ryzen 3 is fully unlocked just like the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 lineups And when you spend a little bit of time doing some tuning gaming performance comes much closer to team blue Not to mention that it also further increases AMD's lead in multi-threaded non-gaming benchmarks Our Ryzen 3 1200 managed to overclock past the 1300X's stock clocks making it an incredible value at this speed and this price Though as always with overclocking your mileage may vary And some additional investment is required for overclocking you'll need an overclocking compatible motherboard chip set and a decent cooler The Wraith Stealth included in the box is fine but it's not enough to handle a voltage bump big enough to comfortably overclock it all the way to the max So be prepared to spend a little more if you want to squeeze some extra juice out of your Ryzen 3 should you pick one up And pick one up you... probably should The platform's matured a lot and Ryzen 3 rips back the budget market that AMD has come to rely on since Sandy Bridge And while like the rest of its family it doesn't exactly dominate It throws a big ol' Randy Johnson curveball at team blue and provides a legitimate alternative to value shoppers who still want great performance We are partnering with Razer at LTX 2017 to host a Razer Goliathus Mouse Mat Design Contest The theme is... well... me! We're gonna see who can design the best Linus Tech Tips themed Razer Goliathus Mouse Pad Attendees of LTX will be able to submit their designs online Razer will select the top four and then it will be up to you to vote on which one is the best If you haven't gotten your ticket for LTX 2017 you still can at the link below We're hosting it here in Langley, BC, Canada There's gonna be tons of cool stuff with some exclusive unboxings including a very special one from Razer And something about teasing an upcoming review Don't miss it, I don't know what that means. Colton wrote this So thanks for watching guys, if this video sucked you know what to do But if it was awesome, get subscribed, hit the like button or check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description Also linked down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one And our community forum which you should totally join