The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G, Ryzen 5 5600G, and Ryzen 3 5300G Review
by Dr. Ian Cutress on August 4, 2021 1:45 PM ESTDiscrete GPU Gaming Tests
1080p Max with RTX 2080 Ti
The last generation flagship GPU might be considered a bit overkill for 1080p gaming, however when we start cranking up settings, we end up crossing the realm from high refresh rate gaming down to regular gaming, and the CPU can end up being the bottleneck here. It provides an interesting set of results.
A full list of results at various resolutions and settings can be found in our Benchmark Database.
Generation on generation, we're getting a small bump in Chernobylite.
One of the critical elements here is that Civilization 6 likes the Zen 3 cores, but only when there's enough L3 cache to go around.
Deus Ex gets a sizeable uplift with the new APUs over the previous generation.
144 Hz on Final Fantasy 14, these chips are ready.
F1 2019 is a game that enjoys the Zen 3 change as well.
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GeoffreyA - Friday, August 6, 2021 - link
Okay, that makes sense.19434949 - Friday, August 6, 2021 - link
Do you know if 5600G or 5700G can output 4k 120fps movie/video playback?GeoffreyA - Saturday, August 7, 2021 - link
Tested this now on a 2200G. Taking the Elysium trailer, I encoded a 10-second clip in H.264, H.265, and AV1 using FFmpeg. The original frame rate was 23.976, so using the -r switch, got it up to 120. Also, scaled the video from 3840x1606 to 3840x2160, and kept the audio (DTS-MA, 8 ch). On MPC-HC, they all ran smoothly. Rough CPU/GPU usage:H.264: 25% | 20%
H.265: 6% | 21%
AV1: 60% | 20%
So if Raven Ridge can hold up at 4K/120, Cezanne should have no problem. Note that the video was downscaled during playback, owing to the screen not being 4K. Not sure if that made it easier. 8K, choppy. And VLC, lower GPU usage but got stuck on the AV1 clip.
GeoffreyA - Sunday, August 8, 2021 - link
Something else I found. 10-bit H.264 seems to be going through software/CPU decoding, whereas 8-bit is running through the hardware, dropping CPU usage down to 6/8%. H.265 hasn't got the same problem. It could be the driver, the hardware, the player, or my computer.mode_13h - Monday, August 9, 2021 - link
> 10-bit H.264 seems to be going through software/CPU decoding...
> It could be the driver, the hardware, the player
It's quite likely the driver or a GPU hardware limitation. There's some nonzero chance it's the player, but I'd bet the player tries to use acceleration and then only falls back on software when that fails.
GeoffreyA - Tuesday, August 10, 2021 - link
Yes, quite likely.mode_13h - Monday, August 9, 2021 - link
> the video was downscaled during playback, owing to the screen not being 4K.> Not sure if that made it easier.
Not usually. I only have detailed knowledge of H.264, where hierarchical encoding is mostly aimed at adapting to different bitrates. That would never be enabled by default, because not only is it more work for the encoder, but it's also poorly supported by decoders and generates slightly less efficient bitstreams.
GeoffreyA - Tuesday, August 10, 2021 - link
"hierarchical encoding"That could be x264's b-pyramid, which, I think, is enabled most of the time. Apparently, allows B-frames to be used as references, saving bits. The stricter setting limits it to the Bluray spec.
GeoffreyA - Tuesday, August 10, 2021 - link
By the way, looking forward to x266 coming out. AV1 is excellent, but VVC appears to be slightly ahead of it.mode_13h - Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - link
> That could be x264's b-pyramidNo, I meant specifically Scalable Video Coding, which is what I thought, but I didn't want to cite the wrong term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Codin...
The only way the decoder can opt to do less work is by discarding some layers of a SVC-encoded H.264 stream. Under any other circumstance, the decoder can't take any shortcuts without introducing a cascade of errors in all of the frames which reference the one being decoded.
> The stricter setting limits it to the Bluray spec.
I think blu-ray mainly limits which profiles (which are a collection of compression techniques) and levels (i.e. bitrates & resolutions) can be used, so that the bitstream can be decoded by all players and can be streamed off the disc fast enough.
I once tried authoring valid blu-ray video dics, but the consumer-grade tools were too limiting and the free tools were a mess to figure out and use. In the end, I found simply copying MPEG-2.ts files on a BD-R would play it every player I tested. I was mainly interested in using it for a few videos shot on a phone, plus a few things I recorded from broadcast TV.