Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review
by Ian Cutress on February 12, 2018 9:00 AM ESTBenchmarking Performance: CPU Office Tests
The office programs we use for benchmarking aren't specific programs per-se, but industry standard tests that hold weight with professionals. The goal of these tests is to use an array of software and techniques that a typical office user might encounter, such as video conferencing, document editing, architectural modelling, and so on and so forth.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
Chromium Compile (v56)
Our new compilation test uses Windows 10 Pro, VS Community 2015.3 with the Win10 SDK to combile a nightly build of Chromium. We've fixed the test for a build in late March 2017, and we run a fresh full compile in our test. Compilation is the typical example given of a variable threaded workload - some of the compile and linking is linear, whereas other parts are multithreaded.
Our compile test has an eclectic mix of requirements, with different segments having different bottlenecks. The Ryzen 5 2400G matches the higher frequency of the Core i3-8350K, even though it already has a core and memory advantage. An interesting thing here is that the Ryzen 3 2200G and the Ryzen 5 1400 are almost evenly matched, even though the 1400 has double the threads. This is because of the frequency of the 2200G, and the memory speed.
PCMark 10
PCMark 10 is the latest all-in-one office-related performance tool that combines a number of tests for low-to-mid office workloads, including some gaming, but focusing on aspects like document manipulation, response, and video conferencing.
PCMark8: link
Despite originally coming out in 2008/2009, Futuremark has maintained PCMark8 to remain relevant in 2017. On the scale of complicated tasks, PCMark focuses more on the low-to-mid range of professional workloads, making it a good indicator for what people consider 'office' work. We run the benchmark from the commandline in 'conventional' mode, meaning C++ over OpenCL, to remove the graphics card from the equation and focus purely on the CPU. PCMark8 offers Home, Work and Creative workloads, with some software tests shared and others unique to each benchmark set.
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Pork@III - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
I think I have to make it clear. The quoted processor(Core i7-8809G) will crush the Ryzen 5 2400G, but some other cheaper models in its series will perform better, just the superiority will be, not so great in the test results, but there will be such in terms of the price ratio / productivity.Manch - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Stfu trollHolliday75 - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
I don't know any idiots that would buy that CPU to build a low end gaming rig that can still handle facebook and Office products. Worthless comment.lilmoe - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Welcome back AMD :)I'll be holding on to my Haswell for another year or two. Fingers crossed for a 7nm quad core (6 core maybe???) with HT and Vega 16 (or 18) APU. When that's out, I'll be upgrading promptly, both laptop and desktop machines.
REALLY excited.
ToTTenTranz - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Thanks for the review!What are the system specs for the GT 1030 results? I can't find them in the review..
thevoiceofreason - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
They need to release a variant with halved CPU clocks and TDP for HTPC use.Manch - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Cant you just undervolt and downclock it?lilmoe - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
You don't need to half CPU clocks to reach half the TDP, you can get 70-80% by halfing TDP. That would be very appealing actually for 35-40 watts.Manch - Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - link
It's funny you said that bc you're spot on in regards to the GE variants!jjj - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
There was a leak over the weekend about GE SKUs at 35W and lower clocks.