AMD Athlon 3000G...Can it Game in 2022? 

I remember looking at the 3000G and 3200G in 2019 and scoffing at them. Why would I buy something like that when I could get a better GPU and CPU combo for the same price? Little did I know that a few months later those APU’s would become the only viable option

Interesting, I did a build with a 3000G and an NVME drive and it worked just fine.

Hey Toasty Bros thanks for the revisit of the fan favorite 3000g. I ended up building the previous Althlon 240g (3.5ghz) prior to the release of this CPU. Vega 3 is surprisingly responsive for everyday web browsing and Netflix streaming content. I ended up upgrading graphics using a discrete GT 1030 (ddr5) to relieve CPU resources and offloading it to GPU. I'm still using this system as a low powered and low heat media/light older title gaming machine. This media rig is still fast and capable everything rig.

The stutters occur because you over burden the CPU when running without a frame limiter. Limit yourself to 30 fps @ 720p and enable vsync. You will be surprised just how smooth the 3000G is, even in modern titles.

I bought mine when it was cheap used 45€ almost 2 years ago! Used him for almost one week before upgrade today to ryzen 5 3600 i bought for 150€

I use it in my main system paired with a gt 1030. I'm actually very happy with it even in 2023 . Not my first Athlon either i started on Athlon 64 back in the day and then moved to the Athlon X2 later on . These processors are a godsent for budget conscious people who know how to manage their expectations. Also huge plus that if at somepoint you do need more horsepower AMD sockets generally provide good upgradability down the line. For what it is it's really a decent deal.

You actually just made my day! I was scouring the net for not so outdated videos of the Athlon 3000G and your opinion is also quite interesting.... vs the i3 10100? From what i know the UHD 630 graphics kinda are worse than the Vega 3.... very interesting indeed.

If you have a 1366x768 monitor, it's an amazing value. I built a PC for my little brother with this APU and he has even been playing GTA V. He's extremely happy with his new PC. Guys, 720p gaming isn't THAT bad.

The excitement around the 3000G was that it is completely unlocked and overclocked well even with the included tiny cooler. and overclocking especially the vega graphics makes a very noticeable improvement. Not overclocking it is a disservice.

Thanks for the video, I'm from Latin America and although everything is much more expensive here, I hope to save up in the future to be able to buy this equipment.

I ran a 3000G for a couple months before I upgraded the Processor & GPU.(Msi B450M Pro VDH Max motherboard with 16Gb of 2667 ram) Ran games just fine with an Nvidia 1650 (GTAV, ARK, Destiny 2 @ 1080p). I had an m.2 NvMe SSD(WD Blue SN550) that ran just fine with a 2TB HDD for game storage. I also didn't have any noticeable issues with the 3000G's cooler. I might throw it and the 1650 into another budget build for a 2nd PC for multi-tasking non game content.

Hi Future Mat, please note the Athlon 3000G it dose support NVME drive and its working fine not issues at all but you have to update the Bios without installing the NVME or any other drive only RAMs on then update the BIOS then it will work normally Regards, Omar

got one back in 2020 for 45 euro's, use it for streaming video's and retrogaming.. great value!

The Athlon supports NMVE drives. It is the Motherboard that doesn't support it with that processor. Other motherboards support it just fine. Just look for it before you buy your motherboard.

I've got a 3000G for $75 plus change a few months ago. Put it in a clearance ($200) HP PC I got at WalMart, took the 3200G from that and put it another HP I had. I've found the 3000G is sufficient for the older games I tend to play (Skyrim SE, Fallout 4 on low settings) and as I like to have two separate computers at my desk I'm using it for the secondary one and am gaming quite a lot on it. I agree that at $100 the i3 makes a lot more sense.

I have the Athlon 3000g, in an MSI a320-pro MAX mother board, and its served great since Aug 2020. I run Plex on it which manages 4 streams both internally and externally at 720-1080 (can not transcode or stream 4k). Valorant runs fine on 1080 high, but tend to play 1080 mid, cap at 60 FPS cause im using a 4k 60hertz Monitor. DayZ 720p mid too. 4K res in Windows is fine, great for youtube, web browsing etc (upgraded to Windows 11 and seems fine so far). Literally made this build as a hold till I built a better one (Mac user normally), then was gunna turn this PC into a NAS and 720-1080 Plex server.. But nearly 1.5 years into it, and I'm fine for it for now, especiallty with parts not being available. I got this for £50.00, its not on for £100.00 whcih tbh, I'd avoid it at the current price.

My son's pc project has a that Athlon right now. We got it for $50 dls 10 momths ago. Incredible little proccesor for 50 bucks. Runs better with a little overclock. Rx 6600 arrives today. Ryzen 5600 next month.

There might have been an unexpected issue with the mobo when they said NVME drives didn't work, because I'm literally rocking a second-hand Athlon 3000G build aside from my main rig (also with the Ryzen Wraith Stealth cooler) and it's running Windows 10 just fine with an NVME SSD on it (Teamgroup MP33 512GB) and no other drives. I think as long as you have realistic expectations given it is a dual core/quad thread CPU the Athlon 3000G can still do decent office work, heck even decent gaming for indie/older games (e.g. Bioshock non-remastered, the first Dishonored, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Ravenfield, Tomb Raider, Insurgency (not Sandstorm that is); and with customizing settings from LowSpecGamer and accepting low-res images, some new games like with Remedy's Control) and even some light video editing if you're really patient in render times, it should be something acceptable to use. Now do keep in mind I did get lucky to have this at $60 in the second-hand market; it's less appealing when sold as new for $100 in the Philippines.. but the iGPU market here for AMD is so bad, even at $100 the 3000G is still a deal I can reconcile with people getting given that finding second-hand Ryzen 2200G for anything less than $160 is difficult; and $60 is already a lot of money for many Filipinos, that we cannot just spend that money and call it a day (it can pay for almost a month of groceries; 1-3 months of electricity usage, etc.) just to get better iGPU performance. EDIT: If you do have a B450M mobo (in my case I got the B450M Mortar because I had an upgrade issue with my main rig that led to me replacing the mobo, thinking there might be an issue with the Mortar, but it's been running stable since so it seems it wasn't the cause), and can get it for reasonable prices in the second-hand market (or rarely even new), it's worth doing an overclock on the BIOS to see if the 3000G can meet at least 1500MHz iGPU clock speed and 3.7GHz or higher CPU clock speed. It can help with FPS gains with not much difference in temperature -- the highest I've seen for the CPU is at 70C, and typically more on resides at the 45-65C range depending on usage.

I recently got one in a prebuilt deal I got locally. It had a 1650 super, but I paired it with a GTX960 and I was blown away at how well it did. The pairing left virtually no bottleneck. Who knew a 2 core/4 thread and a GTX960 would be viable in 2022. It'll make a great build for a first time PC gamer looking to play Esports and some older titles.

I feel like a 3000g & gt 1030 build needs to be published. Both are well known minimum budget pc parts and I'd love to see you guy's opinion on the pair.

It's so cool getting to see the PC I won from you guys being built! (also commenting from it) I cant say thank you enough for the awesome PC and hopefully I'll be able to get myself a decent Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor soon (borrowing one from a friend) again thank you guys!!

Ahh finally. Been waiting for this setup. As I grew older, (maybe cause financially unstable) APU's gonna be my go to daily basis.

Athlon 3000g build still is my dream pc

I got a amd athlon 3000g and 8 gigs of ram with a rx 580 and its very good on a 144 hz monitor

in what world does the i3 10100 have better graphics than the athlon?

They went down to $75-85! The 10100f $100+ 3200g is $125+ so honestly it’s worth it now.It plays Warzone at 45fps np.

I bought an Athlon 3000g Dual Core Quad Thread a couple of weeks ago, and I'm gonna upgrade the CPU this Thursday.

I play very old games. There were tons of low specs games I haven't tried yet. I paired it with B450 gigabyte ultra board.

It can play F.E.A.R 1 and F.E.A.R 2 at the highest settings

I have this Athlon 3000G paired with Asus Prime b450m-k motherboard. Manage to detect and use nvme by enabling 'CPU PCIe lanes unlocked' in BIOS advanced onboard devices setting. Hope it helps.

my friend has a laptop with this APU in it, it kinda sucks to me but it’s pretty good for him

i'm using a athlon 3000g right now. My old pc was so 15 years old. It coulnt run anything anymore. So i bought this standard 3000g athlon to later upgreat it. I bought it for the case, the lights are cool. When i have the money its gonna be a ryzan 5 sinds im not a hardcore gamer. But i love to build my own pc. And play with my friends when im not working. For now it does the job. Planet coaster is a probleme, when the ryzan 5 is gonna be there with al the componenets its gonna be great. Cant wait till its there.

Building fresh new...no. BUT....I had one form an old HTPC upgrade and after some upgrades had an AM3 platform left to build a PC. SO on an older B450 + 2X8 DDR + Samsung SSD and my old RTX5500 it does a pretty solid job for my youngest and I have an excellent affordable upgrade path as I upgrade my big boxes or pick up discarded AM3 processors.

Valorant ETS2 vs. It plays comfortably in 1920x1080 small games. It also allows overclocking. (both system to internal graphics card) Best suited for AM4 system. Price / performance can be tried. 200W PSU can run the whole system and there is no heating problem. The CPU (APU) consumes only 35w at total load. What else? 🙃

Your videos are so informative thank you! I still don’t know if I want a prebuilt pc or not

I’m building my first pc and I decided to get the ryzen 5 5600g because of the insane graphics card prices. I’m almost ready to build I’m just waiting for my motherboard to come in.

That montage was something else. Wow!

About nvme issues , I have already installed an Athlon 3000g with a kingston nvme and it works perfectly , I also used a B550M gigabyte DS3H motherboard

I just build 3000g last week..in my country new for 3000g only $68 pair with galax b450 m mobo also new for just $45..pretty decent deal

You guys have a very beautiful door there, with wonderful stained glass. I love it. :-) Good review about basic hardware in 2022, thanks.

Overclocked it, and running well as a daily driver.

The 3000G does support NVMe Drives I rock the Corsair P2 500GB NVMe M.2 SSD

I bought a i5 11400 at Best Buy and got 4 free games Crysis Crysis 2 Crysis 3 and Humankind nice way to add to the game collection.

I got the athlon 3000g and I paired it with a 6500xt.... It is now cpu limited in most taskes. Reviewers hated both of them, reviewers would hate that combo even more so with the athlon 3000g being limited to pcie 3 meaning the 6500xt would be running at worse. There are games where I hit both limits and I know I am because the fans for the 6500xt kick on, there is absolutely no universal way of getting FPS as amd has disabled all forms of gathering that with the drivers and a lot of the card seems software base limited, not hardware base. Meaning reviewers are complaining for the wrong reasons. LIke I can stream with the card despite not having a hardware encoder, they redesigned the amd software after the 6500xt to disable all forms of fps counters for the 6500xt and record/screaming even though you can with software like OBS that if there is no hardware encoding detected from the gpu it will off load it onto the cpu or the cpu's igpu's encoder. Which is what AMD's software should be doing is looking and seeing if there is a amd IGPU on the cpu dye and off loading taskes to it, yes they can do that if they really wanted to. This would have made the card more worth going after. I am not disapointed with my purchasing decission as the use case + budget this was litterally the best card within its range for its purpose that wasn't giving money to either a scalper or miner that caused most of the issues for gamers. Its use case is for my 6 year old son to play a few light weight games that the vega 3 struggled with even armed with 2gb dedicated I tried to increase but mobo limited to 2gb, I had 32gb within this build from spare parts for the ram. Half the parts were from a old rig I couldn't sell the parts online for much of a profit so I saw no reason to resell when I could reuse. Unforchently I had already sold both the cpu and the gpu I had. Luckily those I sold for more than I spent in total on those parts and the athlon 3000g was a little over $70 when I bought it and the 6500xt was like 2 weeks ago at $199.99 single fan. The single fan definitly does kick on when it reaches 60% usage or more and it is very audioable but they can not be heard over the volume my kid has his volume at plus screaming. The only other part I had to buy was a ssd, which I found out the hardware the athlon 3000g does not support any m.2 slots of any kind unless it is slotted in a pcie x4 or higher slot and most of that is being handled by the pcie card itself not the cpu. The athlon 3000g also only supports upto pcie 3.0 not gen 4 at all. So for $340 I got my son a bottom of the low end gaming pc. I could have saved $200 by not buying the 6500xt like the microcenter reps kept telling me to do and I ignored them, and I am glad I did. They kept trying to pressure me into buying only nvidia cards, which I am very against nvidia at this point, and used ones at that because they were trying to make some of their money back as they now had to sell them at a heavily loss. I don't know what they were thinking as the cards they were pushing were the 3060 and the 2060. The 2060 was used for $389.99 and their 3050's that they had instock were $419.99 and they had plenty of 6600. I had the microcenter rep litterally repeating the garbage that comes out of reviewers mouths about the 6700xt when my wife was looking at it, a card that I have. The rep was new and he was clearly showing his fanboyism and I even told him I use linux and the nvidia drivers for linux are terrible and the guy tried telling me linux is terrible. I even told him the reasoning why I didn't want to go higher, the main reason is I am pairing it with a athlon 3000g. The highest you want to go with a pairing like that is a 6600 non-xt and you don't want to go with a nvidia graphics card with it as the cards and cpu's tend to not play so friendly together especially with nvidia's drivers since 2020 which have been complete garbage for over a year with bugs every where like I mean every where. I had to deal with this first hand with a Msi twin cooler 7 gaming x 1660ti oced edition card I had where the screen would randomly flicker off for 1 second and then come back on crashing dozens and dozens of programs and games in the process of this event and it wasn't triggered by anything other than the drivers and this happened on 5 different hardware builds with several different nvidia cards such as a asus 1060ti paired with a amd ryzen 5 2600x. A 710 paired with some prebuilt my inlaws had which I gave them the 710 so they could stop using their terrible integrated graphics and have slightly faster loading times as they are old and complain about waiting even a fraction of a second going full blown karen on everything. and my wifes pc which was litterally the 3600x paired with a 1660ti, which then I replaced my 2600x with a 5600x and the 1060 with a 1660ti same issues fresh install, and replaced the power supply and mobo so I basically slowly replaced part by part and every pc was having the same exact issue and so were my friends pc's who would come to me anytime they had computer problems they thought it was a virus. I checked by downgrading drivers to pre-30 series and it all magically was fixed but then they couldn't play games without upgrading drivers. So I switched my 1660ti to a 6700xt and never had any issues. Not with blender, other than blender softlocking out radeon rendering engines infavor of promoting nvidia ones that came with blender, instead of promoting both. Any ways My son loves his 6500xt and his athlon 3000g.

Pair the 3000g with a rx570 your good to go for a while. Massive upgrade path and the vega 3 is way better than the hd630 on the intel lol. Over lock the igpu to 1600 or 1650mhz that can still do a job

I have a 3000g I bought 2 months and I wanna add that minecraft bedrock runs like a dream and minecraft java w/ optifine can push 200+ fps with low enough settings

Amd athlon 3000G really do supports nvme ssd on my b450 aorus pro without any modifications on bios or whatsoever. It works flawlessly out of the box. Maybe asus is the only mobo that doesn't supported?(Not sure)

VIDEO STATES 3000G DOESNT SUPPORT NVME HOWEVER I AM CURRENTLY RUNNING A 3000G WITH A M.2 NVME WITH NO ISSUES.

Good pair with 6400 XT, if you are saving money to get a discrete GPU

Interesting. Just want to know will it be good enough if I plan to use it for basic photoshop, (SCHOOL / COLLEGE) level. Planning to build for running a computer lab where students will work on autocad coreldraw and ps. But not like hardcore. Just basic layering and stuff.

I have 3000g + 3060 Ti Fe on a B460 Tomahawk xD Some games gives CPU bottle neck. Thinking of upgrading to 5600x

I'll probably still be using my FX8320 ten years from now. Watching this video is encouraging in that regard.

Glad i bought this for 60$ , it was the only cheapest i've got, and now i see its selling for over 80$-110$

Subscribed not to long ago and think I watched every video

Yeah im still rocking on athlon 3000g with 16gb ram

Awesome video 👑 I am just 2 parts from a cool gaming pc 😃 you guy inspired me to do my build thank you for uploading good videos

The music at 5:30 was good

I still have this in my current pc lol and I built it myself but I have 16 gigs of ram and 560 ti gpu it’s not the greatest of ever but it’s not bad I play minecraft and cs:go so it works fine for me definitely when I use a client for minecraft like lunar and I’m getting around 400 fps and it’s crazy

my x300w build has a Athlon 3000g with a 256gig M.2 nvme works fine and I just checked it is M.2 NVME pci-e (not sata) with a Athlon 3000g with Radeon Vega graphics and the system is a AsRock X300w box and has two pcie nvme slots and the only hd in my box is a single 256gig M.2 NVME drive and zero external drives and it supports it and works fine

Hey, what do you guys recommend for computer specs for a android mobile app developer and web development?

I got 3400G a few years back for like $125. How much I sold it for 2 weeks ago...$235 lmao

This processor will be perfect build for my son who plays games like Roblox and Gary's mod I can also walk him through a build with this with little expense

Wow computer price parts have inflated so much. Didn't realize such a basic processor would be going for so high above it's original MSRP rn.

I too played with this processor for kicks, but it never performed. It never used all the cores running at about 60%. I would stay away as little fix for this was ever found.

Is it possible to change the amd athlon 220ge with ryzen 3? And what will the performance be better if the motherboard will not be changed?

I bought this apu while it was 80$ including international shipping about 3 months ago.

Honestly would be good for older games at high res.

I hope amd upgrades the athlon line, but since they did not release 5000 series ryzen 3 to consumers , seems low possibility

$100 is too much for this, no matter how you put it . You could get Ryzen 3 2200g for $130-135 on AliExpress, and 3200g for like $160-170. Save some money on MB (go for A320 2 slots) and that is that.

ad2. maybe now test CPU only? with gtx 1660 maybe ? or older gtx 1060 / RX 570 >?

Just found a Aliexpress deal for the Athlon 3000g and board for $188.30

If you have to turn Minecraft to low, just to get 60 FPS at 1080p, that's pretty sad. I know PC parts are hard to come by, but the struggle is real with this gaming system. I'd love to see these tests branch out more. Instead of going for the cheapest of the cheap, why not try PC parts that people who are serious about PC gaming might use. Like for example, see if a Ryzen 2700x and 1080 TI can play at 1440p in 2020 in AAA games. Just a thought because there are some people who are looking to move from consoles to PC, but aren't interested in casual e-sports games and also aren't willing to drop resolutions to Xbox 360 levels.

Good performance

My pc has a 5600g would it be convenient to switch it out for a 5700g?

It is absolutely not true that 3000g does not support NVME drives. It does. I have an asrock B450M steel legend with a Hynix nvme drive and 3000g in it.

in teh future we are going to look at the 3000 series gpus as the forbidden graphics cards that we will not speak off

Is it possible GVGMall raised prices? The Code TB20 doesn't get me the pricing posted in your link above or am I just missing something?

Honestly thinking of getting one of these for linux

love your charmander t shirt!

Do you need any fans if your case comes with one? Someone plz let me know asap

It's weird.. You can't find the 3200G anywhere or anything dealing with 320G... It's like they don't exist or something. Not good as these things are aging. You can't use Windows 11, You can't use an NVM... Max RAM is like 64 and not the usual 128GB that the boards are offering now adays. These things are kinda hitting rock bottom :(

in my country I build this whole system PC with 8GB Ram is less than $100

There we go. OLDER TITLES. Why do people keep forgetting them. There's plenty of AAA titles most people haven't played yet, and for some reason no one cares. TF2 is a legendary game, and people can still have a lot of fun playing it. And it really doesn't take much to do it.

mine has an NVMe, i updated the bios it might be that? 🤷‍♂️🤔🙇‍♂️

Wait, the 3000g does not support nvme? What about the 200g? Doesn't that work either?

I love when I get the notification that says you got a new subscriber

I dream of being able to handle any game 144 fps plus on high settings (excluding cyberpunk 2077)

thanks bros do you have a a8 7680 for gaming video?

try it with a budget gpu next

using athlon pairing with r9 370 4gb with 8x2gb ram 2666mhz can it play high end games like warzone or battlefield v and pubg something like that? 😅

I used to see the Athlon 200GE and 3000G had a price of 50 to 60 bucks now its around 100 bucks lol for that price might as well get the Ryzen 3 1200 much cheaper and double the performance, and pair it with a low budget low wattage graphics card. Or if Not get the Athlon x4 950 Plus a low wattage graphics card.

Those cpu Temps are crazy

make gaming benchmarks to prove your claim that UHD graphic beat Vega 3 and I will agree with the recommendation. Vega is a much better and supported architecture that UHD. Maybe if it was iris of the 12100. I would agree with 10100 with a gpu but not using on board.

is this CPU better in games than old i5 3470 4/4 ? or G4560 2/4 ?

Hmm I use a nvme m.2 SSD with a 3000G and it works without issue...

I paired this thing with a 1080ti and it ran great tbh

i have an amd athlon gold on my laptop but i barely get even 60 fps in ROBLOX its annoying and thats the reason im buying a pc

a brand new 3000g system here costs $200

You can get a used 3200 G for the same price or less

Can you run RLCRAFT and some shader with this? or dota 2?🥺