GTX 1650 SUPER + Ryzen 3 3100 COMBO | Specs, Price, Performance with benchmarks

Geforce GTX 1650 Super + Ryzen 3 3100 

Best GPU+CPU Combo for budget gamers

Just a few days ago, I uploaded some blog posts on Geforce GTX 1650 SUPER and Ryzen 3 3100. I talked about their Performance and pricing which was really good.You can check them from here if you want to.

GTX 1650 SUPER Review

Ryzen 3 3100 Review

Ryzen 3 3100 VS Core i5 9400F

Ryzen 3 3100 VS Ryzen 5 2600

In my reviews I praised both the CPU and GPU and said that they were the best in their price segment, In the benchmarks I told they would be an amazing combo for the price. As someone who has used that combo for months here is my review about it.

Nvidia launched the GTX 1650 SUPER on November 2019 which was the SUPER variant of the old failure GTX 1650 launched in early 2019. It come at the price of $160. 

AMD launched the Ryzen 3 3100 on April 21, 2020. The original price at launched is $120.

Specifications

Ryzen 3 3100

The Ryzen 3 3100 is a quad core CPU which has Hyper-Threading in it and comes with a Base Clock Frequency of 3.6 GHz which can be overclocked up to 3.9 GHz on all cores. It is an unlocked Processor It is a third Generation Processor so is it based on ZEN 2 Micro-architecture and Manufactured on 7nm Process. Along with 16 MB of L3 cache, it has a TDP of 65 W. It supports the AM4 socket and can be paired with any good AM4 socket Mother-Board like B450 tomahawk, B450 motar, x470, x570,etc. It supports a Maximum of 64 GB DDR4 RAM clocked at 3200 MHz in dual channel. It does not have any integrated graphics so you need to pair it with a dedicated Graphic Card.

Geforce GTX 1650 SUPER

The GTX 1650 SUPER is based on Nvidia's Turing Micro-Architecture and is a part of Nvidia 1600 series GPU which comes at the price of $150 currently. It has the Base Clock Frequency of 1530 MHz and Boost Clock Frequency of 1725 MHz (some GPU might have even more clock speed). It is made by a 12 nm Fabrication Process. It has about 6.6 Billion Transistors in it and Memory Bandwidth of 192 GB/s. It has only one Memory variant of 4 GB GDDR6 type and Bus Width of 128 bit. It supports the PCIe 3.0 Bus Interface and has TDP of 100 W. You can use any good PSU of 450 W but I will suggest to get a 550W one.

Performance

GTX 1650 SUPER has faster GDDR6 Memory type rather than GTX 1650's GDDR5 Memory Type. The GTX 1650 SUPER has very good specs even though it is a mid-range budget GPU but only 4 GB Video Memory is a great drawback for those specs. Nowadays, atleast 6 GB of Video Memory is recommended for ultra level gaming.

The Ryzen 3 3100 is about 10% slower than the Ryzen 3 3300x because of lesser Clock Speed. This is a quad Core CPU like all desktop Ryzen 3 CPUs but has the support of Hyper-Threading ( Threads double the number of cores ). These are the first ryzen 3 CPUs to be based on ZEN 2 Micro-Architecture and processed on 7 nm technology. Both of them have higher Clock Speed compared to rest of the Ryzen 3 lineup.

Benchmarks

After all those specs and stuff its finally the time for benchmarks as no review is a review without benchmarks and for the benchmarks, I have paired the GTX 1650 SUPER with a Ryzen 3 3100 (you may use upto a RTX 2060 SUPER) and 16 GB of dual channel 3000MHz DDR4 Memory. I played 5 games on 1080p resolution and on Ultra settings and here are the results.

Processor	Ryzen 3 3100 @3.9 GHz
Graphics Card	Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5
Memory	2x8GB 3200MHz CL14
Motherboard	TUF B550 Plus Gaming
PSU	Corsair RM850
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo 1TB

Here are the results:

The GTX 1650 SUPER performed pretty well and scored more than 60 FPS in every games. The Ryzen 3 3100 supported it pretty much there was no bottleneck. One thing is that the GTX 1650 SUPER was using 3.5 GB+ VRAM in Bf5 and COD Warzone because of less VRAM in such games is a real problem but in a budget PC you may see it. Still there was no stutter or frame drop.

The Ryzen 3 3100 scored 179 points in Cinebench R15 Single-Core Tests which is more than the Ryzen 5 2600 and is good for today's gaming level and it scored 1019 single core scores which are now less than Ryzen 5 2600 but are still good for medium level editing, streaming and rendering.

In the end both of these CPU and GPU performed really well and scored pretty well in games and multi-core tasks. I will say if you want to buy a gaming PC under $500 then this pair would be the best for you. You can play games at good FPS and stream at the same time. You would also be able to do rendering and editing easily and smoothly.

Note - The prices may differ from regions to regions and this blog was also published before September 2020

Buying links:- 

Ryzen 3 3100 4 cores upto 3.9 GHz

Gigabyte GTX 1650 Super Windforce OC 4GB (GV-N165SWF2OC-4GD)

ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 Super OC 4GB GDDR6 128-Bit IPX5 Dust Resistance Twin Fan Graphics Card with Max Boost of 1800Mhz (TUF-GTX1650S-O4G-GAMING)