Ryzen CPU with VEGA Graphics ONBOARD!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,100 words · ~5 min read
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both zen and vega at this point are
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pretty old news by computer industry standards but there are a couple of
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things that make this combination product
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more interesting than you might expect
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number one is the incredible value proposition for budget gaming and number
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two is the unexpectedly high performance of these entry-level
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cpus once you add a discreet graphics
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LTT
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let's begin by jumping right into gaming performance on ryzen g's integrated
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graphics where unsurprisingly its vega
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GPU stomped all over Intel's best
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efforts to build a competitive on-chip graphics processor
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then fell short of even a gtx 1050 ti putting
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it pretty far down the pecking order compared to discrete graphics cards so
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we tested at 1080p medium details but
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based on our results it's more likely that you would opt for 720p high or
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1080p low though to be clear we are not
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complaining about this budget gamers would have given their
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left nut for 720p high 12 years ago when
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AMD first began work on the combination
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CPU GPU paradigm
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moving on to productivity we get very similar results to the same clocked
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older generation ryzen chips with the new g series actually pulling off some
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better results in tests like multi-threaded cinebench and v-rays CPU
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benchmark and then leaving Intel's onboard
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graphics standing on the starting line in the GPU version
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now we also saw similar or better scores compared to old verizon in ASUS real
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bench ignoring the opencl result since they obviously favor discrete graphics
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cards and blender CPU test continues the
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trend with team blue getting smashed and the GPU test once again showing us that
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8 and 12 cus respectively aren't ideal
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for heavy lifting so what have we got here then
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we've got a couple of really nice upgrades the 2200g obsoletes basically
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the entire existing ryzen 3 lineup and
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remember you can just plunk this into any existing ryzen compatible
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motherboard with at most a BIOS update and the 2400g ends up being a toss-up
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with the more expensive 1600x so what you get is onboard graphics and
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in some cases better performance due to the four plus zero ccx design and second
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generation precision boost but what you give up is some level three cache and a
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couple of cores for heavy multi-threaded workloads
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now these are budget product so AMD
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costed down the ihs to a traditional thermal pace this time around though
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that shouldn't be a big deal at this package power and ryzen runs pretty cool
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anyway and while we've never had great results
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with ryzen overclocking today's chips were particularly unimpressive both of
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them managed only 3.85 gigahertz on all cores which is more than the precision
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boost frequency of the 2200g but actually less than the 2400 g to be
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clear that's on all cores so it's still a net gain for some workloads and the
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2400g managed it at a lower voltage
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but we just need to make sure that you're going into your purchase here
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with realistic expectations for a single
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benjamin and change thermals were a little higher than usual
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for ryzen thanks to the higher default voltages and probably the lesser thermal
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compound but power consumption was basically spot on only a few watts
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different than the same clocked og ryzen cpus our Intel chips that should be
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noted managed lower idle draw
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alright so let's talk upgrade path now a
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lot of people go out and buy a CPU like this with integrated graphics with the
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intention of only using those temporarily so what is gaming like once
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you throw in a dedicated graphics card
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actually fine so we ran our ryzen cpus with a 1050 ti
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in the earlier testing and then re-ran our g series with it as well and we got
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similar if slightly lower results across
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the board so it looks then like AMD's decision to split the pci express lanes
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between the integrated vega core and the PCIe 16x slot giving only eight lanes
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for each didn't actually hurt them too badly
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so at 99 and 169 respectively the ryzen 3 2200g
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and ryzen 5 2400g are both better values
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than their predecessors and integrated vega graphics with some help from native
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support for higher speed 2933 dual channel ddr4 memory gives them much
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better performance and maybe even more importantly
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compatibility in GPU intensive tasks
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than anything that Intel can muster
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so Intel who opted not to seed us the
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price competitive processors saying we'd have to go buy them if we wanted to
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compare g i wonder why holds the performance crown for CPU only
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