Athlon 3000G Vs Ryzen 3200G?

[Gimpymoo]

This is for a basic HTPC build.

The most the unit will be doing is Plex streams (client, not encoding) Youtube, iPlayer etc.

Is the 3200G worth DOUBLE the price of the 3000G for this build? £40 Vs £80.

2c4t Vs 4c4t

Thanks.

 

[pastymuncher]

I have no idea about Plex streams but in gaming the 3200G is literally twice the cpu and then some. Actual cores are better than ht.

 

[Gimpymoo]

I have no idea about Plex streams but in gaming the 3200G is literally twice the cpu and then some. Actual cores are better than ht.

That is the thing, for the use, it is worth spending twice the money for twice the performance if your not using the performance?

OR, is it likely Youtube and the likes will need more power in the near future with higher resolution streams to decode etc?

 

[Davedree]

It depends if your plex software is using the Hardware Acceleration of your htpc to stream, as effectively you would be offloading the cpu workload onto the gpu. 3000g has the same hardware acceleration block as the 3200g, so only difference is if your software uses a hybrid approach for decoding, or just cpu cores.

 

[Ice Tea]

I'm in a similar situation and as a long time Intel user i find the AMD line up and price range confusing (for the best bang for buck) as there is a mixture of old and new architect with names and refreshes , the 1600AF is now over priced and the new 3100 is too close in price to the 3600 which you now often see on a special deals.

 

[Ice Tea]

One good thing about the 3000G is you can stick a Alpine Passive cooler on it.

 

[Gimpymoo]

One good thing about the 3000G is you can stick a Alpine Passive cooler on it.

EXACTLY. I have a firewall appliance with one of those heatsinks and a low power cpu, is wonderful.

 

[Bossman]

One good thing about the 3000G is you can stick a Alpine Passive cooler on it.

I have one of these and this is the exact reason I bought one. Just a pain in the backside paying through the nose for a motherboard to put it in.

 

[Ice Tea]

Yeah, it's pain how the price of the boards has shot up.

Anyone heard of any rumours on a new 4000 dual core?

 

[Gimpymoo]

I went with the 3200G in the end.

Was not an easy choice as I would have preferred to have a passive heatsink but with more strenuous decoding becoming the norm, made sense to go with the 3200G as it has more "omph".

The fact the 3000G is only 35w made it a difficult choice but I had to make a decision one way or the other.

 

[Ice Tea]

Lets us know how you get on with it when it arrives.