AMD releases Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100, announces B550 chipset

This is the year that AMD and Intel will be going toe to toe in the CPU market space. While everyone was waiting for Intel to release Comet Lake, AMD did a one up on them and launched the Ryzen 3 3300X and Ryzen 3 3100. AMD also announced the B550 chipset with PCIe 4 support, and we shall see motherboards for the same soon.  

This was a surprise launch and has been aimed before intel announces their Comet Lake CPUs. Ryzen 3 3300x will be priced at $120 and Ryzen 3 3100 at $100. Which means these will be among the cheapest 4 core, 8 threaded CPUs on the market with the Zen 2 architecture. Which also means these CPUs will be supporting PCIe Gen 4, which is twice as fast as PCIe 3.0, which will be present on Comet Lake. 

Both these CPUs will come to markets in May this year and the B550 chipset will release in June. The current chipset that supports PCIe 4 is the X570, which is considered an enthusiast level chipset. By June, it will be easy to make a budget gaming rig with a really good performance. 

The CPUs will not come with an integrated GPU however. The Ryzen 3 3300X will have a base clock speed of 3.8 GHz and a boost speed of 4.3 GHz. The Ryzen 3100 will have a base speed on 3.6 GHz and a boost speed of 3.9 GHz.