AMD is working on new Ryzen 3 CPUs to rival Intel's Core i3 Comet Lake range

[Shawn Knight]

In brief: AMD is said to be working on Zen 2-based quad-core CPUs to compete with Intel’s upcoming 10th generation Comet Lake-S Core i3 processors in the entry-level segment. Both chips will reportedly feature four cores / eight threads, a single CCX with 16MB of L3 cache, 2MB of L2 cache and clocks of 3.9GHz and 4.3GHz, respectively, although these are likely boost clocks, not base clocks.

The scrappy chipmaker, if you recall, launched its Ryzen 3000-series of Zen 2-based CPUs last summer. The lineup currently includes Ryzen 5, Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 entries – absent is any entry in the budget Ryzen 3 category but that could be changing.

AMD OPN Chaos
Ryzen 3 3100 : 100-000000284
Ryzen 3 3300X : 100-000000159
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— 188号 (@momomo_us) April 16, 2020

Tom’s Hardware points to a recent Twitter post from hardware leaker @momomo_us who suggests AMD Ryzen 3 3100 (100-000000284) and Ryzen 3 3300X (100-000000159) hardware is on the way.

Both chips are listed with a 65W TDP which seems a bit high given the Zen 2 optimizations and die shrink to 7nm.

Tom’s Hardware said there are two ways AMD could go about making a quad-core Ryzen 3 chip. The first would be to repurpose defective Ryzen 5 3600 CPUs by disabling a bad CCX. Optionally, AMD could craft a new design in which there is only a single CCX inside the CCD (client compute die).

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[Lounds]

Definitely going to be defected standard 8 core dual CCX's. I imagine they have been binning chips for a while and the defective ones with at least 4 cores working will be used.

 

[dylannnnnn]

"The scrappy chipmaker" ??

showing your bias already are we?

 

[cliffordcooley]

"The scrappy chipmaker" ??
showing your bias already are we?

I'm not sure why you would think that was biased. The term fits AMD perfectly.

Urban Dictionary: scrappy

seemingly small and unthreatening but shockingly able to kick your *** and anyone else's

www.urbandictionary.com

Someone or something that appears dwarfed by a challenge, but more than compensates for seeming inadequacies through will, persistence and heart.

 

[Shadowboxer]

"The scrappy chipmaker" ??

showing your bias already are we?

How DARE they say anything negative about AMD!

 

[Nobina]

I'm not sure why you would think that was biased. The term fits AMD perfectly.

Urban Dictionary: scrappy

seemingly small and unthreatening but shockingly able to kick your *** and anyone else's

www.urbandictionary.com

He doesn't know what it means. It does look similar to "crappy" or "scrap".

 

[neeyik]

In the UK, scrappy typically means messy or untidy (source), which is rather different to the use of the term in the US.

 

[cliffordcooley]

So what you are saying is Dylannnn chose to be socially biased.

 

[Irata]

He doesn't know what it means. It does look similar to "crappy" or "scrap".

But this would then be that other CPU maker...

 

[Irata]

In the UK, scrappy typically means messy or untidy (source), which is rather different to the use of the term in the US.

Yeah, urban dictionary has this definition:

"seemingly small and unthreatening but shockingly able to kick your *** and anyone else's"

 

[Danny101]

Yeah, urban dictionary has this definition:

"seemingly small and unthreatening but shockingly able to kick your *** and anyone else's"

That fits

 

[Danny101]

It would be nice to have a 4-core, 8-thread chip at 5 GHz sustained. I would buy that over anything that is currently offered. Fits my needs sufficiently.