Amd ryzen 3 1200 review in Spanish (full analysis)

We continue to analyze AMD processors and this time we have in hand the AMD Ryzen 3 1200, its most basic model based on the Zen architecture to offer users a solution with a very tight price but excellent performance. Will it pass the tests in our laboratory?

First of all we thank AMD for the trust they placed in giving us a sample of the Ryzen 3 1200 for analysis.

AMD Ryzen 3 1200 technical characteristics

Unboxing and analysis

Ryzen 3 1200 comes in the same cardboard box that we have seen in the rest of the Ryzen family solutions, inside the box we find the processor along with all the documentation and a Wraith Stealth heatsink that will be more than enough to cool a processor like East.

The AMD Ryzen 3 1200 is a processor in which both CCX of its die have been left active, with this it remains in a configuration of 4 cores and 8 MB of L3 cache. In this case, the SMT technology is disabled, so it is satisfied with 4 processing threads. Deactivating parts of the processor is a practice that has been taking place for years in order to make use of dies that have some defects that mean that they cannot be used 100% and it is not a problem. By making use of the two active CCXs, all the cores can communicate with each other directly through the Infinity Fabric bus that connects the two CCX complexes of the die. The TDP is at 65W so we expect it to heat up very little.

AMD Ryzen 3 comes to compete with the Intel Core i3 and Pentiums, dual-core and four-thread processors, so AMD's proposals should offer better overall performance. With Ryzen 3 AMD wants to attack a very juicy market sector where a large number of sales are concentrated.

The four cores of the Ryzen 3 1200 operate at a base speed of 3.1 GHz, up to 3.4 GHz in turbo mode. They are quite low frequencies compared to their older brothers that reach 4 GHz in turbo mode, in any case the Ryzen 3 come with the multiplier unlocked so we can overclock in a very simple way, although if we want to go up a lot the frequencies we will have to choose a more powerful heatsink. In this case it does not have XFR technology so the frequency will not exceed 3.5 GHz unless we overclock.

We see a close-up of the processor in which we can see the "RYZEN" logo screenprinted on its IHS, on the back we find the pins and that is that AMD differs from Intel by including the pins in the processor and not on the motherboard, we must take special care not to bend them since the damage could be irreversible.

AMD Ryzen 3 uses a DDR4- compatible integrated memory controller (IMC) in dual-channel configuration for a higher speed of access to stored data, officially supports memories of up to 2, 400 MHz although thanks to AMP technology we will be able to use much faster modules 4, 000 MHz.

Main news of AMD Ryzen 3

One of AMD's big concerns with Ryzen was not to repeat the mistake of its old processors, and to attach great importance to performance per core and energy efficiency, both values ​​well below its competition with the FX. The main technologies that have been most detailed from the company itself are the following:

Pure Power & Precision Boost

According to AMD, the Zen architecture employs around 1, 000 highly accurate voltage, current and temperature sensors that send information at intervals of 1 thousandth of a second. In this way, each processor can make adjustments in real time based on its own characteristics (quality of the silicon wafer, etc.). In this way, an energy saving is achieved if the performance is similar, or an increase in performance if what we set is consumption.

This achieves a good use of energy in all performance states (P-states), allowing a faster change from one to another than with previous AMD technologies, such as Powertune or Enduro. As it is something completely new the software must be adapted to make a correct use, AMD has already released a patch for Windows 10.

Directions Prediction and Neural Network

Another of AMD's ambitious statements is that each Zen microprocessor includes a neural network, capable of learning the behavior of the applications that we are running at any given time, and preloading instructions that have been frequent before the code it invokes. These instructions are executed.

A previous version of this prediction was presented with the Jaguar cores, which we imagine has been vastly improved. The technology seems really powerful and well designed, although it is difficult to quantify how much it affects the results and if it really translates into a significant improvement in performance. The problem with predicting instructions and executing them "ahead of time" is that, while it saves time if much of the prediction is correct, it is relatively computationally expensive to "undo" an operation that is not ultimately performed.

Test bench and performance tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Base plate:	Gigabyte X370 Gaming 5
RAM:	Corsair Vengeance PRO 32GB
Heatsink	Stock sink.
HDD	Samsumg 850 EVO.
Graphic card	Nvidia GTX1080 Ti
Power supply	Corsair AX860i.

To check the stability of the AMD Ryzen 3 1300X processor in stock and overclocked. The motherboard we have stressed with Prime 95 Custom and the stock sink. The graphics that we have used is an Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, without further delay, let's see the results obtained in our tests.

Benchmarks (Synthetic tests)

• Cinebench R15 (CPU Score).3dMARK Fire Strike.PCMark 8.VRMark.

Testing in games in 1920 x 1080

Overclocking

In both cases we have reached stable 3.9 GHz but with a fairly high voltage, it can be seen that they are the blocked versions and not the ones finished in -X, which in our experience tend to go up much more and with better voltage. Remember that we are with the stock heatsink, although if you can mount compact liquid cooling or a good heatsink, you can surely do a better overclock and with significantly better temperatures.

Talking about extra performance issues, the improvement will be more noticeable with memories with frequencies close to 2933 MHz. For example, at Cinebench we went from 440 cb to 566 cb, which is not bad (+ 21% performance).

Consumption and temperature

Regarding temperatures, we have obtained a result of 31ºC and 49ºC at maximum performance at rest. Temperatures that are a real luxury for a processor with a low TDP of 65W. While with overclocking they have risen to 33ºC at rest and 67ºC at maximum power. Temperatures more than normal, when applying a voltage of 1.45v.

AMD Ryzen 3 1200

YIELD YIELD - 80%

MULTI-THREAD PERFORMANCE - 86%

OVERCLOCK - 84%

PRICE - 95%

86%