The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza

Intel can't match this performance to price ratio

How about single core performance? Many games are pegged to one or two cores only. I've always found the AMD approach of throwing more cores at the problem not to be optimal.

So I was recently looking at those as options for a very low budget video editing PC for someone, and yes, AMD destroys intel in raw CPU performance for the same price, however in those low-budget applications Intel has an upper hand - integrated GPU. With AMD you either have to go with the super crappy 3400G, which is a really poor CPU(but also very cheap), or for literally anything else + a dedicated GPU(which increases the cost significantly above Intel's offering). I was surprised to find out it's actually cheaper to go with say i5 9400 with an integrated GPU than with Ryzen 5 3600 + cheapest dedicated GPU. Yes the dedicated gpu will be better than intel's offering(marginally so) but if you only care about the CPU performance, don't have a lot of money and yet you need something to drive your monitor, then Intel has that integrated GPU to offer that AMD lacks.

I'm in a similar-ish boat. I've got an i5-6600k with a solid overclock on it. Single core performance is completely modern competitive, but it falls very flat in multicore.

Most games will get a huge bump just with a new GPU - You'd do well with an RTX 2070, or the next generation AMD GPUs (speculating - but there's a lot of momentum on that front).

That being said - LinusTechTips did a head to head benchmark comparison between the i7-7700k (the latest my Z170 chipset can handle) and this 3300X. Bottom line - the 3300X is an insanely good value for performance.

It’s worth remembering that the PS4 and XB1 consoles both have eight relatively slow x64 cores. Thus any multiplatform titles targeting either of these platforms has to be optimised for many cores and cannot rely on single core performance.