AMD Athlon II X3 vs. Ryzen 3 AMD Ryzen 3 1200, Ryzen 3 1300X compared to old AMD Athlon II X3. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. AMD Athlon II X3 425: Processor: AMD Athlon II X3 425 @ 2.70GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 890FX Deluxe3, Chipset: AMD RD890 PCI-e GFX Hydra part, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 128GB ADATA SU800, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8192MB, Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170814, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.3.0, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.7 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD Ryzen 3 1200: Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock AB350 Pro4, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB ADATA SU800, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8192MB, Audio: AMD Device aaf0, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170814, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.3.0, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.7 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD Ryzen 3 1300X: Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 1300X @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock AB350 Pro4, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB ADATA SU800, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8192MB, Audio: AMD Device aaf0, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170814, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.3.0, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.7 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . MIN: 3.0 AVG: 11.6 MAX: 89.0 AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 5.0 MAX: 66.0 AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.6 MAX: 59.0 Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 96.91 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 23.31 |============ AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 19.79 |========== Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 54.04 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 13.80 |============= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 11.81 |=========== FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 1024 Mflops Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 38.89 |=========== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 175.17 |================================================ AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 162.60 |============================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 12.41 |============ AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 52.54 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 50.10 |=============================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 14.63 |============ AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 60.76 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 57.94 |=============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 1.36 |============= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 5.27 |================================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 5.23 |================================================== Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 60.77 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 19.32 |================ AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 16.59 |============= FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 1024 Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 4441.26 |============= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 13942.00 |========================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 15813.00 |============================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 8768.20 |============= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 29351.20 |============================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 30038.72 |============================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 0.35 |=============== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 1.18 |================================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 1.17 |================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 1533.56 |============== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 4382.96 |========================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 5068.09 |=============================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 49.27 |================ AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 132.47 |========================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 151.80 |================================================ Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 7407.54 |=============== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 21828.51 |============================================ AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 22642.95 |============================================== High Performance Conjugate Gradient 3.0 AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 0.32 |================ AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 0.83 |=========================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 0.97 |================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 115.78 |================ AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 348.02 |================================================ AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 331.18 |============================================== R Benchmark Performance Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 0.01 |================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 0.03 |================================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 0.02 |================================= lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 123 |================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 330 |============================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 369 |=================================================== libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 0.76 |================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 1.95 |============================================ AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 2.24 |================================================== Blender 2.78c Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 2706.85 |=============================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 1082.21 |=================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 928.35 |================ PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 1798.76 |================ AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 4873.30 |============================================ AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 5229.81 |=============================================== lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression MB/s Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 4.02 |================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 11.24 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 10.96 |================================================ FFmpeg 3.3.3 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 21.30 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 9.03 |===================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 7.91 |================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 0.69 |=================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 1.84 |================================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 1.75 |================================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 83.50 |================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 197.13 |=========================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 219.57 |================================================ GIMP 2.8.20 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 37.57 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 16.49 |====================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 14.68 |=================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 94.47 |=================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 214.53 |=========================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 239.79 |================================================ lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 2.06 |==================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 5.10 |================================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 4.78 |=============================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 0.65 |===================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 1.57 |================================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 1.55 |================================================= HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 0.05 |===================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 0.12 |================================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 0.12 |================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 99.50 |==================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 211.03 |========================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 238.36 |================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 15143.88 |=================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 30671.93 |======================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 35776.59 |============================================== R Benchmark Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 1.0294 |================================================ AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 0.4974 |======================= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 0.4473 |===================== GIMP 2.8.20 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 7.89 |================================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 3.84 |======================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 3.46 |====================== lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 180 |======================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 361 |============================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 407 |=================================================== GIMP 2.8.20 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 14.31 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 7.09 |======================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 6.35 |====================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 914376.96 |==================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 1868497.71 |======================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 2060055.29 |============================================ lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 497 |======================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 904 |========================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 1068 |================================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 752112.31 |===================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 1426857.17 |======================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 1580025.25 |============================================ libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 83.14 |======================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 149.58 |=========================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 168.15 |================================================ Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 79.65 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 44.68 |=========================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 39.42 |======================== lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 241 |========================== AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 413 |============================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 466 |=================================================== HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 6.66610 |========================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 10.94893 |======================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 12.44300 |============================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 32.13 |================================================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 23.56 |==================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 23.64 |==================================== High Performance Conjugate Gradient 3.0 Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 0.00 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 0.01 |================================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 0.01 |================================================== System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Watts AMD Athlon II X3 425 . MIN: 99 AVG: 128 MAX: 165 AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... MIN: 63 AVG: 86 MAX: 182 AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... MIN: 67 AVG: 103 MAX: 198 Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X3 425 . 154.73 |================= AMD Ryzen 3 1200 ..... 384.28 |=========================================== AMD Ryzen 3 1300X .... 431.74 |================================================