AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G Review: Zen 4 APUs with RDNA3 Graphics
by Gavin Bonshor on January 29, 2024 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- AMD
- APUs
- Phoenix
- 4nm
- Zen 4
- RDNA3
- AM5
- Ryzen 8000G
- Ryzen 7 8700G
- Ryzen 5 8600G
CPU Benchmark Performance: Rendering
Rendering tests, compared to others, are often a little more simple to digest and automate. All the tests put out some sort of score or time, usually in an obtainable way that makes it fairly easy to extract. These tests are some of the most strenuous in our list, due to the highly threaded nature of rendering and ray-tracing, and can draw a lot of power.
If a system is not properly configured to deal with the thermal requirements of the processor, the rendering benchmarks are where it would show most easily as the frequency drops over a sustained period of time. Most benchmarks, in this case, are re-run several times, and the key to this is having an appropriate idle/wait time between benchmarks to allow for temperatures to normalize from the last test.
Some of the notable rendering-focused benchmarks we've included for 2024 include the latest CineBench 2024 benchmark and an update to Blender 3.6 and V-Ray 5.0.2.
We are using DDR5-5200 memory as per the JEDEC specifications on the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G, as well as DDR4-3200 on the Ryzen 7 5700G and Ryzen 5 5600G. The same methodology is also used for the AMD Ryzen 7000 series and Intel's 14th, 13th, and 12th Gen processors. Below are the settings we have used for each platform:
- DDR5-5200 CL44 - Ryzen 8000G
- DDR4-3200 CL22 - Ryzen 5000G
- DDR5-5600B CL46 - Intel 14th & 13th Gen
- DDR5-5200 CL44 - Ryzen 7000
- DDR5-4800 (B) CL40 - Intel 12th Gen
Another area where a mobile-based chip ported to a desktop doesn't quite match the bigger desktop chips is in rendering, a quintessential power and multi-threaded scenario where more cores and threads typically equate to higher performance. Both the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G beat out the Ryzen 5000G series APUs, although the Ryzen 7 5700G consistently beats the Ryzen 5 8600G as we would expect from having two more cores with four more threads.
In our rendering tests without STAPM limitations, we saw notable gains in performance in Blender 3.6. The performance increase without sustained power loads being limited, we're seeing up to 7.5% better performance across the longer tests, with around 5% more performance in the shorter tests.
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zodiacfml - Monday, January 29, 2024 - link
thanks but it would have been nicer for me with an i3-12100 in the charts. The 13100f or 12300f tests from old reviews not comparable.TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
Take 13100f and extrapolate. Not that hard.PeachNCream - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
Not a bad CPU overall, though it does absolutely devour electrical energy. Competition is far worse, but that shouldn't justify a CPU alone consuming more power than would be required to provide illumination to an entire home - it's worth eleven 800 lumen lights! In the evenings or night, I usually have four or fewer bulbs active for half the power consumption or less than this CPU at sub-maximum workloads WITHOUT the rest of the supporting components a PC requires to provide useful functions. Perspective makes it obvious that's quite terrible when we live on a world that is overpopulated, polluted, and hanging on the precipice of being unable to sustain enough food production to feed us and we all know what happens when humans are hungry and forced to compete for limited resources.TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
If you're that scared of power use, buy a celeron mini PC and be quiet.PeachNCream - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
Some of us have to care because it's obvious a lot of us don't and have our heads buried in the sand.TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
Why are you using a PC if you care? why are you not in a commune growing organic crops by hand if you care so much?Nobody cares about your virtue signaling.
PeachNCream - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
Clearly you feel threatened enough by your own lifestyle choices to care by going on the attack and suggesting some extreme alternative like this commune nonsense as if suggesting it eliminates any slight adjustment to your own actions that could offer a reduction in the guilt you're coping with by lashing out.erotomania - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
How exactly is a 65W processor with graphics "gobbling power"? If you mean inefficient, i suppose we could discuss, with facts. But these are modern Ryzen cores, with some mobile genetics - I don't think inefficient applies.In the past I had some Richland APUs (with FX cores) that were definitely inefficient but still idled as low an anything else. I have a 5600G system that idles so low my UPS can't detect it, event though when not idle the system is OC'ed. I would not characterize either as gobbling power.
PeachNCream - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - link
I've already somewhat pointed out why there the consumption is a considerable factor. ~87W at full load as indicated on AT's measurements is enough to provide illumination for an entire home. That isn't a comment on efficiency (or work accomplished for power expended) and I didn't indicate that in my initial post. It's an observation about the power cost implications and impacts of a PC when a single component consumes that much energy and it still, as a standalone device, is an incomplete representation of overall power consumption of a PC built around it.And, it's fair to point out that it is NOT an Intel CPU with far higher consumption. I also mentioned that as well in the same post. AMD's CPUs demonstrate a better work-to-wattage ratio so please realize that I'm aware that among all desktop CPUs, this particular chip is far from the worst possible option.
maxijazz - Saturday, February 3, 2024 - link
Maybe people feel threatened because proud woke people (aka communists-fascists) want to enforce their lifestyle on others? By lobbied out new laws, by propaganda, by censorship.Otherwise nobody would feel threatened.
Live your life and let others live theirs.
If you like force others for good of society, world or universe, go to North Korea. They have communism as state's religion.