Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review
by Ian Cutress on February 12, 2018 9:00 AM ESTBenchmarking Performance: CPU Web Tests
One of the issues when running web-based tests is the nature of modern browsers to automatically install updates. This means any sustained period of benchmarking will invariably fall foul of the 'it's updated beyond the state of comparison' rule, especially when browsers will update if you give them half a second to think about it. Despite this, we were able to find a series of commands to create an un-updatable version of Chrome 56 for our 2017 test suite. While this means we might not be on the bleeding edge of the latest browser, it makes the scores between CPUs comparable.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
Mozilla Kraken 1.1: link
Kraken is a Javascript based benchmark, using the same test harness as SunSpider, but focusing on more stringent real-world use cases and libraries, such as audio processing and image filters. Again, the basic test is looped ten times, and we run the basic test four times.
With the newer high-performance cores, AMD gets a fair crack at benchmarks like Mozilla, where it historically lagged behind with its Bulldozer-family architecture.
Google Octane 2.0: link
Along with Mozilla, as Google is a major browser developer, having peak JS performance is typically a critical asset when comparing against the other OS developers. In the same way that SunSpider is a very early JS benchmark, and Kraken is a bit newer, Octane aims to be more relevant to real workloads, especially in power constrained devices such as smartphones and tablets.
In recent years, Intel has made strides on its Octane performance. So even with cores and threads, and the sizable jump up from Kaveri, AMD is still behind on this test.
WebXPRT 2015: link
While the previous three benchmarks do calculations in the background and represent a score, WebXPRT is designed to be a better interpretation of visual workloads that a professional user might have, such as browser based applications, graphing, image editing, sort/analysis, scientific analysis and financial tools.
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Lolimaster - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
You don't another model, just disable high clocked pstates till you get the power consumption you want.I can lock my Athlon II X4 to 800Mhz if I desire.
Lolimaster - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
You can simply set pstate for a lower base clock and also undervolt if you want to reduce power consupmtion even more.Or the lazy way, cTDP in bios to 45w.
Manch - Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - link
Ask and ye shall receivehttps://www.anandtech.com/show/12428/amd-readies-r...
Cryio - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
This review kind of confused me?It mentioned it's going to compare the A12 9800, but this APU is nowhere to be seen in benchmarks.
Then out of nowhere come A10 7870K, which is fine I guess, but then there's the A10 8750, which doesn't exit, I can asume it's 7850, yet a 7850 non K APU doesn't exist, so what's happening here?
Simon_Says - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Will there be any analysis on current and potential future HTPC performance? While it won't support Netflix 4k or UHDBR (yet, thanks Playready 3.0) I for one would still like to know how it handles HDR for local media playback and Youtube, and if it will have the CPU grunt to software decode AV1.Drazick - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Does the Ryzen have any hardware based unit for Video trans coding?Could you test that as well (Speed and Quality).
It will be interesting as this CPU can be heaven for HTPC and for NAS with Multimedia capabilities.
Thank You.
GreenReaper - Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - link
It is meant to support up to 4K H.264/5 at 30/60/120FPS for 4K/1440p/1080p resolutions. Obviously it'd be nice to see people testing this out, and the quality of the resulting video.gerz1219 - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Still not quite getting the point of this product. Back when it made sense to build an HTPC, I liked the idea of the Bulldozer-era APU, so that I could play games on the TV without having a noisy gaming rig in the living room. But the performance is just never quite there, and it looks like it will be some time before you can spend ~$400 and get 4K gaming in the living room. So why not just buy an Xbox One X or PS4? I also bought a Shield TV recently for $200 and that streams games from my VR/4K rig just fine onto the TV. I'm just not seeing the need for a budget product that's struggling at 1080p and costs about the same as a 4K console.jjj - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
There are 7+ billion people on this planet and the vast majority of them will never be able to afford a console or to pay a single cent for software - consoles are cheap because they screw you on the software side.Vs the global average you are swimming in money.
And ofc the majority of the PC market is commercial as consumer has been declining hard this decade.
Most humans can barely put food on the table, if that and even a 200$ TV is a huge investment they can afford once every 15 years.
Pinn - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
But $10 per day on cigarettes is fine?