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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HStewart - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
I don't get the idea of desktops except if you want ultimate gaming PC - go with High End CPU a long with High End GPU. Otherwise go mobile. You can pretty much go that route unless you desired extreme top end performanceIf you primary into game get a Xbox One X or S and HDTV are cheap or PS 4,
But lower end desktop PC - I see no need them for now. Times have changed
Lolimaster - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
If you wanna upgrade a laptop, be prepared for a bunch of cabling.Have 3-4 drives on mobile?
Dedicated capture/sound card?
Keep your thermals in check?
Upgrade your cpu/apu whenever you like?
mikato - Saturday, February 17, 2018 - link
To me laptops are annoying, and only convenient for basic tasks with their mobility. Otherwise they are slow, have a small screen, often don’t a have mouse, and no number pad on keyboard. As a result, typing is slower, pointing is slower, app speed is slower, and gaming performance is worse. With the smaller screen, juggling things, dragging files, etc is more difficult. I just can’t get stuff done as well on a laptop as a desktop.oldschool_75 - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Why do the Intel systems have 32 gigs of ram while the AMD systems only have 16?Also bulldozer was not 2 cores 4 threads, it was two modules with two cores sharing the modules so 4 cores.
Lolimaster - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Why use 2933 memory?As far as i know AMD send 3200 CL14 Flare X to pretty much everyone for the sake of testing the gpu at 3200 CL14 !!!!
jjj - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
They use the frequencies officially supported , anything above that is OC and would fall into the OC section. It's debatable how right or wrong that is but that's what AT does.Lolimaster - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Guru3d got the reviewer's kit with 3200 cl14 flare-x as 100% of the techtoubers too.ScottSoapbox - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
The number of typos in the first two sentences was enough for me to stop reading.Lolimaster - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
The avrg l3 latency for non-APU multiple CCX Ryzen's was around 11-12ns, on the single CCX APU is aroun 9.5ns.Memory latency Ryzen
91ns DDR4 2400
77ns DDR4 3200
2400G
66ns DDR4 3200
Macpoedel - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
Good to see you started testing CPU's with maximum supported RAM speed instead of JEDEC frequency. These APU's would have really suffered if tested with 2133MHz DDR4 RAM.