The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G, Ryzen 5 5600G, and Ryzen 3 5300G Review

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• mode_13h - Monday, August 9, 2021 - link

  > RAMBUS was supposed to unlock the true power of the Pentium 4
  
  I think Intel underestimated what the DDR consortium was capable of doing. Perhaps they were right, as the DDR makers were eventually forced to license some RAMBUS patents, as I recall.
  
  > the Willamette I used for a decade had plain SDRAM, not even DDR.
  
  Northwood was the best. Sadly, I bought a Prescott because I wanted hyperthreading and hoped the 2x L2 cache would compensate for the longer pipeline. But, it turns out you could even get hyperthreading and 800 MHz FSB, in a couple Northwoods. I also thought SSE3 might be useful, but never got around to doing anything with it.
  
  BTW, I also used DDR400 in my P4.

• GeoffreyA - Tuesday, August 10, 2021 - link

  For me, both the Prescott and A64 were available, but I went with the latter because I always wanted an Athlon. Originally, was looking at the XP 3200+ and dreamt of coupling that with an nForce2 motherboard. As for Northwood, masterpiece of a CPU. P4 would have put up a respectable defence against the A64 had they continued with it. My aunt had a 2.4 GHz Northwood back then, and my school friend a 2.66 GHz one. His struggled at first, but once he got more RAM and a GeForce FX 5700, it really flew. Still remember running through Delta Labs in Doom 3 at 60 fps!

• mode_13h - Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - link

  Prescott was rumored to have 64-bit support, though it wasn't enabled. I think that explains some of the additional pipeline depth.
  
  When Core 2 first launched, I was skeptical the IPC could increase so much that so much lower-clocked CPUs would really outperform their predecessors. It took me a little while to fully accept it. I was hopeful the final 65 nm iteration of Pentium 4 would finally let the Netburst architecture stretch its legs, but even that couldn't overcome its inefficiencies and other deficits.

• GeoffreyA - Friday, August 13, 2021 - link

  Quite likely. Come to think of it, didn't the Pentium Ds have x64? And they were Prescotts.
  
  Indeed, 65 nm might have taken Northwood further. Would've made an interesting processor which we'll never see. As for their 31-stage brethren, the 65 nm Cedar Mills dropped power a fair bit.

• GeoffreyA - Friday, August 13, 2021 - link

  "65 nm might have taken Northwood further"
  
  Well, we didn't even get to see a 90 nm one.

• coolrock2008 - Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - link

  Ryzen 5 APUs Table, there is a typo. the 5600G is listed as an 8 core part whereas its listed as a 6 core part in the previous table.

• Wereweeb - Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - link

  I know how hard it is to actually publish something that is both excellently researched and at a moment the matter is still relevant. Thank you for your coverage.
  
  Plus, it's Anantech, the important parts here are the data and analysis, not how well a tired writer proofreads their own text.

• Fulljack - Friday, August 6, 2021 - link

  I disagree. any researcher would say that proofreading are also as important as the analysis itself. it's how you serve the data and the analysis to broader audience, after all.

• dsplover - Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - link

  Three times the IPC of my beloved i7 4790k’s. I’ll try one, maybe a few as I don’t need the fastest.
  The cooler, fast enough is fine for my 1U builds.
  
  Thanks AMD. Tiger Lake never appeared, you win.

• dsplover - Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - link

  I meant 30% more IPC…