both zen and vega at this point are
pretty old news by computer industry standards but there are a couple of
things that make this combination product
more interesting than you might expect
number one is the incredible value proposition for budget gaming and number
two is the unexpectedly high performance of these entry-level
cpus once you add a discreet graphics
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let's begin by jumping right into gaming performance on ryzen g's integrated
graphics where unsurprisingly its vega
GPU stomped all over Intel's best
efforts to build a competitive on-chip graphics processor
then fell short of even a gtx 1050 ti putting
it pretty far down the pecking order compared to discrete graphics cards so
we tested at 1080p medium details but
based on our results it's more likely that you would opt for 720p high or
1080p low though to be clear we are not
complaining about this budget gamers would have given their
left nut for 720p high 12 years ago when
AMD first began work on the combination
CPU GPU paradigm
moving on to productivity we get very similar results to the same clocked
older generation ryzen chips with the new g series actually pulling off some
better results in tests like multi-threaded cinebench and v-rays CPU
benchmark and then leaving Intel's onboard
graphics standing on the starting line in the GPU version
now we also saw similar or better scores compared to old verizon in ASUS real
bench ignoring the opencl result since they obviously favor discrete graphics
cards and blender CPU test continues the
trend with team blue getting smashed and the GPU test once again showing us that
8 and 12 cus respectively aren't ideal
for heavy lifting so what have we got here then
we've got a couple of really nice upgrades the 2200g obsoletes basically
the entire existing ryzen 3 lineup and
remember you can just plunk this into any existing ryzen compatible
motherboard with at most a BIOS update and the 2400g ends up being a toss-up
with the more expensive 1600x so what you get is onboard graphics and
in some cases better performance due to the four plus zero ccx design and second
generation precision boost but what you give up is some level three cache and a
couple of cores for heavy multi-threaded workloads
now these are budget product so AMD
costed down the ihs to a traditional thermal pace this time around though
that shouldn't be a big deal at this package power and ryzen runs pretty cool
anyway and while we've never had great results
with ryzen overclocking today's chips were particularly unimpressive both of
them managed only 3.85 gigahertz on all cores which is more than the precision
boost frequency of the 2200g but actually less than the 2400 g to be
clear that's on all cores so it's still a net gain for some workloads and the
2400g managed it at a lower voltage
but we just need to make sure that you're going into your purchase here
with realistic expectations for a single
benjamin and change thermals were a little higher than usual
for ryzen thanks to the higher default voltages and probably the lesser thermal
compound but power consumption was basically spot on only a few watts
different than the same clocked og ryzen cpus our Intel chips that should be
noted managed lower idle draw
alright so let's talk upgrade path now a
lot of people go out and buy a CPU like this with integrated graphics with the
intention of only using those temporarily so what is gaming like once
you throw in a dedicated graphics card
actually fine so we ran our ryzen cpus with a 1050 ti
in the earlier testing and then re-ran our g series with it as well and we got
similar if slightly lower results across
the board so it looks then like AMD's decision to split the pci express lanes
between the integrated vega core and the PCIe 16x slot giving only eight lanes
for each didn't actually hurt them too badly
so at 99 and 169 respectively the ryzen 3 2200g
and ryzen 5 2400g are both better values
than their predecessors and integrated vega graphics with some help from native
support for higher speed 2933 dual channel ddr4 memory gives them much
better performance and maybe even more importantly
compatibility in GPU intensive tasks
than anything that Intel can muster
so Intel who opted not to seed us the
price competitive processors saying we'd have to go buy them if we wanted to
compare g i wonder why holds the performance crown for CPU only
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