Testing The World’s Best APUs: Desktop AMD Ryzen 4750G, 4650G and 4350G
by Dr. Ian Cutress on December 16, 2020 10:30 AM ESTDiscrete Graphics
For this set of tests, we have paired the Ryzen 4000 APUs with an NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti (the best GPU we have on hand) to see how discrete performance varies from CPU-to-CPU. One potential upgrade path for users that have a limited budget is to buy their system piece by piece, and purchasing an APU allows for some gaming to occur while still enabling the purchase of a full discrete graphics card further down the line.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
Gaming Tests: Chernobylite
Chernobylite is an indie title that plays on a science-fiction survival horror experience and uses a 3D-scanned recreation of the real Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It involves challenging combat, a mix of free exploration with crafting and non-linear story telling. While still in early access, it is already picking up plenty of awards.
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Gaming Tests: Civilization 6
Originally penned by Sid Meier and his team, the Civilization series of turn-based strategy games are a cult classic, and many an excuse for an all-nighter trying to get Gandhi to declare war on you due to an integer underflow.
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Gaming Tests: Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Deus Ex:MD combines first-person, stealth, and role-playing elements, with the game set in Prague, dealing with themes of transhumanism, conspiracy theories, and a cyberpunk future. The game allows the player to select their own path (stealth, gun-toting maniac) and offers multiple solutions to its puzzles.
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Gaming Tests: Final Fantasy XIV
In 2019, FFXIV launched its Shadowbringers expansion, and an official standalone benchmark was released at the same time for users to understand what level of performance they could expect. Much like the FF15 benchmark we’ve been using for a while, this test is a long 7-minute scene of simulated gameplay within the title. There are a number of interesting graphical features, and it certainly looks more like a 2019 title than a 2010 release, which is when FF14 first came out.
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Gaming Tests: Final Fantasy XV
The game uses the internal Luminous Engine, and as with other Final Fantasy games, pushes the imagination of what we can do with the hardware underneath us. To that end, FFXV was one of the first games to promote the use of ‘video game landscape photography’, due in part to the extensive detail even at long range but also with the integration of NVIDIA’s Ansel software, that allowed for super-resolution imagery and post-processing effects to be applied.
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Gaming Tests: World of Tanks
World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features.
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Gaming Tests: Borderlands 3
The fourth title of the franchise, Borderlands 3 expands the universe beyond Pandora and its orbit, with the set of heroes (plus those from previous games) now cruising the galaxy looking for vaults and the treasures within. Popular Characters like Tiny Tina, Claptrap, Lilith, Dr. Zed, Zer0, Tannis, and others all make appearances as the game continues its cel-shaded design but with the graphical fidelity turned up.
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Gaming Tests: F1 2019
The 2019 edition of the game features all 21 circuits on the calendar for that year, and includes a range of retro models and DLC focusing on the careers of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. This edition revamps up the Career mode, with features such as in-season driver swaps coming into the mix, and the quality of the graphics this time around is also superb, even at 4K low or 1080p Ultra.
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Gaming Tests: Far Cry 5
The fifth title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration with a lot of configurability.
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Gaming Tests: Gears Tactics
Gears Tactics is a high-fidelity turn-based strategy game with an extensive single player mode. As with a lot of turn-based games, there is ample opportunity to crank up the visual effects, and here the developers have put a lot of effort into creating effects, a number of which seem to be CPU limited.
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Gaming Tests: GTA 5
The highly anticipated iteration of the Grand Theft Auto franchise hit the shelves on April 14th 2015, with both AMD and NVIDIA to help optimize the title. At this point GTA V is super old, but still super useful as a benchmark – it is a complicated test with many features that modern titles today still struggle with. With rumors of a GTA 6 on the horizon, I hope Rockstar make that benchmark as easy to use as this one is.
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Gaming Tests: Red Dead Redemption 2
It’s great to have another Rockstar benchmark in the mix, and the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) on the PC gives us a chance to do that. Building on the success of the original RDR, the second incarnation came to Steam in December 2019 having been released on consoles first. The PC version takes the open-world cowboy genre into the start of the modern age, with a wide array of impressive graphics and features that are eerily close to reality.
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Gaming Tests: Strange Brigade
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt, and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen, who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her.
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Kuhar - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link
I guess you two guys didn`t read the article, did you?! It states clearly about memory SPEED and about memory TIMINGS.29a - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link
I know, it sucks. The reasoning is they think people who build their own computers wont go into the BIOS and enable XMP.BlueScreenJunky - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link
My conclusion is that we need better low Power Consumption discrete GPUs. The GT1030 is over 3 year old and still faster than IGPs. If nvidia could release an RTX 3030 with a 30W TDP it would be perfect for small machines.nero10578 - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link
Why would you not test 720p which is what people use integrated GPUs for? 1080p high is too high and 360p is well no one plays at that resolution. Also wouldn't it be better to test the GT 1030 using the APUs? To remove any performance differences coming from the CPU side which from a 2600 to a 4750G is massive.Fujikoma - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link
Thank you for the review. These are typically the types of processors I use to build systems for older family members. Almost exclusively used for web-surfing, online purchases, You-Tube, Facebook, Office/Libre, burning music cds, simple/archaic games, and one individual using Photoshop. I will agree, as others have stated, that 720P really should be the minimum monitor size. Mainly because it's more expensive to find a monitor with lower resolution than a cheap 720P/768P/1080P LCD. I don't mind the 1080P max tests because it's nice to see what kind of a brick wall the iGPU will be hitting. I just finished computer builds for my brother and ex-wife, which left replacing other family from really old APUs systems. Now I know why I don't see much of a selection anymore. Shame, because I enjoy DIY over buying a basic box from an OEM and this just makes it more of a hassle.Superunknown9898 - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link
Anyone else notice the Ryzen 4750G struggling to beat the 3600X in games but dominating in a few office benchmarks? I figured the 4750G would make a clean sweep seeing as it runs at identical frequencies to the 3600X but has more L1 and L2, two more cores plus a monolithic die.maindan - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link
What a gross oversight not to include the new Apple M1 CPU here, which is essentially an APU.Inexcusable.
qlum - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link
Not really the area of focus for anandtech but the 4700g has a small niche as being the best cpu for memory frequency records.Shivansps - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link
I just logged in to say thtas the wrong way to way IGP perf... Resolutions for IGP are 720P/768P min/med and 900P min/med depending on the game, 1080p full is too much and anything below 720p is worthless. 900P tend to be the sweetspot in performance and quality for IGP, but not every game can be run at that resolution.Jacek Jagosz - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link
Are those CPUs even supported on B450? ITX boards are much more expensive on B550 than B450, and if you want a PC with only APU inside then you don't want to spend too much on it.