Análise do AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: Placa de vídeo integrada mais rápida de todos os tempos

O Ryzen 7 5700G de oito núcleos e 16 threads marca a chegada das primeiras APUs Zen 3 de 7nm’Renoir’da AMD para desktops. nas fichas. A AMD planeja usar os chips Renoir para cobrir grandes diferenças de preço em seus Ryzen 5000 lineup que domina nossa Melhor CPU lista e hierarquia de CPU Benchmark , mas estão limitados ao mercado OEM até o lançamento completo no varejo em 5 de agosto de 2021. A expectativa é alta, porém, então pegamos um sistema pronto para uso da HP para dar uma volta no Ryzen 7 5700G.

Cezanne será as primeiras APUs AMD disponíveis em varejo desde que os modelos de quatro núcleos Zen +”Picasso”chegaram em 2019 . A AMD, na verdade, substituiu seus chips Picasso pelo Ryzen Pro”de oito núcleos do Zen 2 Renoir”série em 2020, mas em um desenvolvimento decepcionante, reservou esses chips para OEMs. Infelizmente, isso significa que os APUs com a arquitetura Zen + envelhecida são os melhores que você pode encontrar no varejo, embora a AMD já tenha progredido por três gerações de chips nesse ínterim (Zen 2, XT, Zen 3).

A decisão da AMD de manter esses chips fora do mercado de varejo não poderia ter vindo em pior hora. A pandemia desencadeou um ciclo de atualização de PC sem precedentes à medida que interrupções na cadeia de suprimentos e escassez de componentes abalaram o mundo e a criptominação reapareceu, tudo conspirando para criar a mais severa escassez de GPU da história. Com GPUs discretas em lugar nenhum, os chips Renoir e suas GPUs integradas úteis teriam sido uma dádiva de Deus para os jogadores que procuram esperar a escassez de GPUs, mas a escassez fez com que até os chips Picasso de última geração da AMD desaparecessem inteiramente das prateleiras.

A AMD lançou seus chips Ryzen 5000 nesse ínterim, mas o pivô da empresa em relação ao preço premium expôs duas fraquezas em sua pilha de produtos, incluindo um preço mínimo de $ 300 de entrada para a família Zen 3 e uma grande diferença de $ 150 entre seus Ryzen 5 e Ryzen 7 famílias. Infelizmente para a AMD, o Rocket Lake da Intel explodiu em alguns meses atrás e conectou aqueles lacunas de preços , pegando a AMD de forma nada característica.

As APUs Cezanne, que vêm com o Zen 3 núcleos de execução emparelhados com o motor gráfico Radeon Vega procuram resolver vários problemas de uma vez. Em vez de sua tradicional separação das linhas de CPU e APU, a AMD coloca os chips Cezanne diretamente em sua pilha Ryzen 5000-a AMD diz que eles preenchem o papel dos modelos”não-X”padrão que tradicionalmente oferecem preços mais atraentes em um determinado núcleo conte sacrificando a velocidade de pico do clock por um TDP inferior Isso significa que o 5700G deve essencialmente se encaixar como um Ryzen 7 5800, o que não faz muito sentido, visto que A AMD, na verdade, tem um Ryzen 7 5800 exclusivo para OEM . Vamos nos aprofundar um pouco mais tarde.

De acordo com a AMD, Cézanne é a resposta para todos os problemas de preço de Ryzen, com o Ryzen 7 5700G de oito núcleos e 16 threads de $ 359 fechando o abismo entre os Ryzen 7 e 5 lineups, enquanto o Ryzen 5 5600G de seis núcleos de US $ 259 reduz o preço exorbitante de entrada para o Zen 3 lineup. Ambos os chips também vêm com um cooler Wraith Stealth, tornando o negócio mais agradável.

A AMD ainda está retendo várias de suas APUs de baixo custo do mercado de varejo, mas devido à escassez contínua de placas de vídeo, as APUs Cezanne pode ser uma visão bem-vinda para o mercado de jogos. Isso se a escassez de GPU persistir em agosto, e se esses chips realmente se encaixarem entre o desempenho de seus equivalentes Ryzen. Isso é uma tarefa difícil, considerando as desvantagens associadas ao design de matriz monolítico, que difere significativamente dos chips Ryzen 5000 baseados em chips. Vamos ver como tudo funciona.

Especificações e preços do AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

A família Ryzen 5000G abrange de quatro a oito núcleos e tem a arquitetura Zen 3 que fornece um aumento de 19% do IPC sobre a arquitetura Zen 2 usada nos modelos Ryzen 4000G da geração anterior.

A AMD está trazendo apenas o Ryzen 7 5700G de oito núcleos de 16 threads e o Ryzen 5 5600G de seis núcleos de 12 threads para o varejo, pelo menos por enquanto. Além disso, a AMD atualmente não anunciou quando trará o Ryzen 3 5300G de quatro núcleos e oito threads ou o modelos 35W da série GE para o varejo, o que significa que não veremos nenhuma mudança significativa em nossa lista de As melhores CPUs baratas em breve.

O Ryzen 7 5700G de oito núcleos de 65W e 16 threads vem com uma base de 3,8 GHz e um clock de impulso de 4,6 GHz, 16 MB de cache L3 e oito Radeon RX Vega CUs que operam a 2,0 GHz. Como com todos os processadores Zen 3, os chips Ryzen 5000G evoluem da interface DDR4-2933 para DDR4-3200, o que ajudará a aumentar o desempenho em jogos com a GPU integrada. Comparado com o Ryzen 7 5800X de oito núcleos, você ganha o motor gráfico Radeon, mas sacrifica 100 MHz de clocks de aumento de pico e metade do cache L3. Você também passa de 24 pistas de suporte PCIe 4.0 para 24 pistas de PCIe 3.0.

A AMD insiste em que os chips Ryzen 5000G sirvam como os novos modelos”não X”para a família Zen 3. O Ryzen 7 5700G de $ 359 compensa a diferença considerável de $ 150 entre o Ryzen 9 5800X de $ 449 e o Ryzen 5 5600X de $ 299. Essa lacuna deixou espaço para operar o Core i7-11700K da Intel, mas a AMD diz que o desempenho do 5700G se encaixa perfeitamente entre as outras partes do Ryzen 5000 e traz a vantagem do motor gráfico integrado Vega.

O 6-core 12 de 65W-thread Ryzen 5 5600G vem com uma base de 3,9 GHz, 4,4 GHz de reforço e sete Radeon Vega CUs que operam a 1,9 GHz. Estamos trabalhando para obter este chip também, então fique atento para a revisão.

O $ 256 5600G preenche a lacuna entre o $ 299 Ryzen 5 5600X e, bem, toda a pilha de produtos abaixo de $ 299 da AMD. O envelhecimento da AMD Ryzen 5 3600 é o único concorrente real relevante neste preço alcance e não é competitivo com o Rocket Lake da Intel Core i5-11600K ou Core i5-11400 , deixando a Intel para reinar sem contestação no orçamento mercado (como você pode ver em nosso recente 11400 vs 3600 confronto ).

Com base no preço sugerido, o 5600G luta com o Core i5-11600K, mas a AMD ainda precisa resolver o atual campeão de orçamento de valor, o Intel Core i5-11400.

Arquitetura AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Cezanne

Estamos precipitando-se sobre o lançamento oficial do Cezanne da AMD, então não temos ve tantas informações aprofundadas quanto de costume. No entanto, a AMD usa o mesmo SoC para os chips móveis Ryzen 5000 e os APUs para PC desktop Ryzen 5000G, portanto, temos as informações mais importantes. Temos certeza de que a AMD compartilhará informações adicionais sobre o lançamento formal e faremos as atualizações.

Surpreendentemente, a maior parte do SoC Ryzen 5000G’Cezanne’vem do Ryzen 4000’Renoir’SoC . Para melhorar o tempo de lançamento no mercado, a AMD essencialmente trocou novos núcleos Zen 3, deixando o I/O, o motor gráfico integrado Radeon RX Vega de 7 nm e o design SoC intacto.

Naturalmente, o chip tem muito mais energia térmica e espaço livre em um PC desktop, de modo que a AMD ajusta várias variáveis ​​para adaptar os chips para ambos os segmentos exclusivos, como consumo de energia, algoritmos de reforço e compartilhamento de energia entre a CPU e a GPU. Você pode ler muito mais sobre o design e a arquitetura em nosso AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile’Cezanne’SoC Deep Dive .

A AMD reutilizou o design Renoir SoC, então o 5700G vem com o motor gráfico Radeon RX Vega de 7 nm com oito CUs, e não um design baseado em RDNA mais recente. A AMD diminuiu a velocidade do iGPU do 5700G em 100 MHz em comparação com o 4750G da geração anterior, mas aumentou as taxas de clock base/boost da CPU em 200 MHz, sugerindo que ajustou o SoC para um equilíbrio ideal de potência da CPU e GPU. A AMD já havia retrabalhado a arquitetura gráfica em sua última tentativa com Renoir-os gráficos RX Vega de 7 nm retrabalhados entregaram até 60% mais desempenho por unidade de computação (CU) do que seus predecessores, o que equivale a mais desempenho gráfico com menos CU.

A matriz monolítica do Ryzen 5000G permite um controle mais rígido da eficiência de energia e outras características importantes para o espaço móvel, mas também apresenta algumas desvantagens em comparação com os chips de desktop que têm um design baseado em chips. Por exemplo, unificar todos os núcleos de I/O, cache e CPU, sem mencionar a adição de núcleos de GPU, em um único dado inevitável resultou em alguns sacrifícios para atender às metas de desempenho, potência e área (PPA) da empresa.

Por exemplo, o Ryzen 7 5700G tem 16 MB de cache L3, mas isso é metade da capacidade L3 do Ryzen 7 5800X baseado em chip para PCs desktop que também vem com oito núcleos. No entanto, Cezanne melhora em relação às APUs Renoir-o 5700G tem o dobro do L3 do 4750G de oito núcleos.

AMD também unificou os oito núcleos e cache em um cluster contíguo de 16 MB dentro do CCX (Core Complex). Em contraste, o Zen 2 tinha dois clusters de quatro núcleos, cada um com 4 MB de cache. Este cache unificado maior melhora a latência core-to-cache e core-to-core em relação aos chips Renoir. Além disso, para aplicativos altamente encadeados, isso proporciona um aumento de cache de 2X, e cargas de trabalho levemente encadeadas agora têm acesso a 16 MB completos de cache, equivalente a um aumento de 4X no cache acessível diretamente.

Re-usar o design Renoir SoC também significa que a AMD manteve a interface PCIe 3.0 encontrada em todas as suas APUs de geração atual. Como tal, o chip tem 24 pistas de conectividade PCIe 3.0 em comparação com 24 pistas de PCIe 4.0 encontradas nos modelos Ryzen 5000 para o PC desktop.

Os chips de desktop Cezanne encontrarão seu caminho na série 500 e algumas placas-mãe da série 400, embora o suporte para as últimas varie de acordo com o fornecedor.

Configuração de teste, overclocking e térmicas AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

O Ryzen 7 5700G da AMD está disponível através de OEMs, então compramos um sistema HP Pavilion TP01-2066 para que pudéssemos retirar o chip e começar os testes, mas a configuração do sistema nos mandou para outra toca de coelho. O TP01 é uma máquina de escritório, e os dois slots DIMM da placa-mãe e o subsistema de fornecimento de energia de cinco fases sem dissipador de calor nos dizem que ele não foi projetado para desempenho de jogos. Isso não desculpa a configuração da memória, no entanto.

Nós compramos este sistema por $ 700 através do site Office Depot, mas ele só está disponível com 16 GB de memória. O sistema foi enviado com um único DIMM de memória Kingston de 16 GB e o Office Depot não oferece a opção de solicitar o sistema com dois DIMMs de 8 GB ou mesmo dois DIMMs de 16 GB.

Para quem não sabe, preencher um único canal de um controlador de memória de canal duplo reduz pela metade a largura de banda da memória potencial, e isso é particularmente brutal para APUs porque o motor gráfico integrado depende fortemente da memória do sistema.

Sim, sabemos que é comum prática para alguns sistemas OEM serem enviados com apenas um único DIMM. Mas não, os varejistas não devem enviar sistemas alimentados por APU sem preencher os canais de memória disponíveis (ou pelo menos oferecer uma opção para fazer isso).

Para destacar o impacto no desempenho, testamos em ambos Configuração de DIMM e DIMM duplo no sistema HP. O desempenho gráfico integrado normalmente não é tão impactado pela latência quanto apenas pela largura de banda pura , mas acrescentando um leve insulto a um ferimento já grave, o DIMM único combina com a interface DDR4-3200 padrão do 5700G, mas usa tempos JEDEC inalteráveis ​​de 22-22-22-52. Novamente, isso é comum com sistemas OEM, mas decepcionante.

Como mostraremos em detalhes abaixo, a configuração de DIMM único destrói o desempenho dos jogos. A maioria dos entusiastas buscará esse chip para o mecanismo gráfico integrado, por isso testamos os gráficos integrados em configurações de DIMM único e duplo no sistema OEM. For comparison, we also dropped the chip into a proper motherboard, the ASUS ROG Strix B550-E, for iGPU testing on an enthusiast-class board.

AMD says the Ryzen 7 5700G slots in as what we would traditionally think of as a non-X CPU. Additionally, some enthusiasts will seek out the chip to game with the iGPU until they can find a discrete GPU after the shortage recedes. As such, we also paired the chip with the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 Eagle we use for our standard gaming suite. We didn’t bother testing the OEM system in our standard discrete GPU gaming test suite, but as shown in the picture above, the 3090 won’t fit into the HP system anyway.

We also ran our standard application suite with both the OEM and enthusiast motherboards, so we have plenty of test results to chew over.

While AMD has official graphics drivers in the wild, be aware that support for the 5700G series is still very basic on enthusiast motherboards. The ASRock X570 and an ASUS ROG Strix B550-E both ran the chip with no issues, but overclocking functionality is still very basic. We expect that motherboard makers will engage in the normal round of firmware tuning prior to the official launch in August, but we didn’t have much luck with overclocking our chip. We’ll add overclocking to our results when we revisit the chip at its official launch.

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Gaming Benchmarks 

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Integrated GPU Gaming Performance — The TLDR 

Below you can see the geometric mean of our integrated graphics gaming tests across five titles at 1280×720 and 1080p, with each resolution split into its own chart to give us a decent overall view of the current landscape. These are cumulative metrics, so individual wins vary on a per-title basis. You’ll find the game-by-game test results further below.

Here are the Ryzen 7 5700G configurations for the entries in the charts below:

• Ryzen 7 5700G B550: 2x 8GB DDR4-3200 (dual channel) memory @ 16-16-16-36, ASUS ROG Strix B550-E, PBO disabled, Default power limits
• Ryzen 7 5700G HP Dual Channel: 2x 16GB DDR4-3200 (dual channel) memory @ 22-22-22-52, HP Pavilion TP01-2066, No configurable options
• Ryzen 7 5700G HP Single Channel: 1x 16GB DDR4-3200 (dual channel) memory @ 22-22-22-52, HP Pavilion TP01-2066, No configurable options

Our 1280×720 and 1080p cumulative results speak volumes about HP’s decision to ship Ryzen 7 5700G-powered systems with a single stick of memory — the single-channel configuration delivers a devastating blow to performance. The dual-channel HP configuration is 74% faster at 1280×720 than the single-channel configuration, and 82% faster at 1080p. Bear in mind that this is the only configuration available through Office Max, so plenty of uninformed customers are buying what are best described as crippled systems. Luckily we located a matching DIMM to test the dual-channel config with the same memory spec’d for the system.

We dropped the chip into the ASUS ROG Strix B550-E to see the difference between the HP system and an enthusiast rig (marked as B550-E in the charts), but the differences were surprisingly small. The B550-E system was only 4% faster at 1280×720 and 1080p, albeit against what we would consider a properly-kitted HP system with dual memory DIMMs. So naturally, the B550-E board will be a much better solution for any type of overclocking or even basic tuning (the HP system doesn’t allow you to manipulate literally any setting), not to mention the far superior connectivity options and other enthusiast trimmings, like RGB bling.

The table above gives us a succinct iGPU performance comparison of the four most relevant chips, with the Ryzen 7 5700G on the Strix motherboard used as the baseline. We see a pretty impressive ~10% performance improvement from the 3400G to the 4750G, but bear in mind we’re looking at the jump from a quad-core to an eight-core chip. The move from Renoir (4750G) to Cezzane isn’t quite as impressive at ~7%, but that’s still a solid gain given that we’re looking at what appears to be fundamentally the same Radeon RX Vega engine paired with eight CPU cores. 

The Intel chips give us about what we expect, which is roughly the same (or slightly less) performance than the crippled Ryzen 7 5700G with a single memory stick. Intel’s UHD Graphics 750 engine with the Xe architecture marked a decent step forward over the company’s UHD Graphics 630 engine, but Intel’s decision to port the Xe architecture back to the 14nm process resulted in fewer graphics cores — the highest-end desktop chips currently have 32 EUs, whereas the 10nm Tiger Lake chips stretch up to 96 EU.

As such, the Core i7-11700K and Core i5-11600K pull up far short of what we would expect from a graphics engine that’s intended for meaningful gaming, showing they’re better suited for basic display functionality. The Intel chips struggle at both 1280×720 and 1080p, netting roughly half the performance of a properly configured Ryzen 7 5700G system.

Intel has made strides here, sure, but it still lags AMD’s three-year-old Ryzen 5 3400G’Picasso’chips. Alder Lake can’t come soon enough, but it remains to be seen if any of the desktop models will come with enough EUs to put up a decent fight against AMD’s potent APUs. 

Overall, the results are clear; if you’re looking for the best integrated graphics on the desktop, Cezanne is really the only game in town. As long as you adjust your expectations and fidelity/resolution settings accordingly, Cezanne is plenty serviceable for its target audience. We found 1280×720 gaming to be solid across numerous titles. While the number of titles you can play becomes extremely restricted at 1080p, you can get away with 1080p gaming with reduced fidelity settings in many titles, too. 

Dota 2 on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

We tested the eSports darling Dota 2 with a medium preset at both 1080p and 720p resolutions. The Ryzen 7 5700G ticked right along at 113 fps at the 1080p resolution, a nice 9% gain over the previous-gen 4750G.

However, to keep things in perspective, we have to remember that the Ryzen 5 3400G is supposed to be the only AMD APU currently available at retail (it’s normally out of stock). The 5700G is 30% faster at 1080p than the 3400G, signifying a big upgrade. 

In terms of alternatives to the 5700G that you can actually buy, you’re looking at the Core i7-11700K and Core i5-11600K. These chips are both surprisingly capable in this title (we’ll see plenty of cases below where they aren’t), but the Ryzen 7 5700G is still ~52% faster at 1080p than the UHD Graphics 750 engine. 

Far Cry 5 on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

The Intel processors absolutely bombed in our Far Cry 5 tests, and try as we might, we couldn’t correct the issue. Flipping to the last slides in the above album shows the problem in stunning clarity — with the exception of the crippled HP config with a single DIMM, the Ryzen 7 5700G setups deliver a nice smooth and predictable series of frame rate measurements. In contrast, the Core i5-11600K and i7-11700K are incredibly inconsistent, manifesting as stuttering, hitching, and generally unplayable performance.

Unfortunately, we’ve encountered this situation with a few titles that we’ve tested with Intel’s new Xe architecture on the Rocket Lake chips, but driver updates have ironed out some of the wrinkles. We think these are early teething problems with drivers and game code, but some of these problems appear to persist, and it’s been three months since the Rocket Lake launch.

We didn’t encounter any of these issues with the Ryzen chips, and even the crippled HP single-channel setup beats the Intel chips. 

On the bright side (at least for AMD), the Ryzen 7 5700G in a reasonable configuration is quite adept at 1280×720, though things did get a bit dicier at 1080p. Of course, you always have the option to lower your quality settings, and overclocking should help. We’ll dive into this title a bit deeper for the official launch. 

Grand Theft Auto V on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Grand Theft Auto V is immortal, partly because you can play it on lower-powered hardware if you’re willing to trade off fidelity for performance.

Dialing back quality to the lowest settings yields a more-than-playable 88.5 fps at 1080p for the Ryzen 7 5700G, at least with the proper setup. That means there’s plenty of headroom for higher quality settings, and that applies nearly doubly at the 1280×720 resolution; 140 fps leaves plenty of room for tweaking the fidelity settings.

Here we can see that the Ryzen 7 5700G in a proper dual-channel configuration provides twice the performance of the crippled 5700G configuration — that’s unacceptable. Pay attention to the memory loadout if you purchase an OEM system. 

Shadow of the Tomb Raider on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

The Intel chips encounter more problems in the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark. The Core i7-11700K and i5-11600K offer nearly identical performance in most of our benchmarks, indicating a graphics bottleneck that the 11700K’s slightly higher CPU clock rate can’t improve. Here we can see the Rocket Lake chips fail to reach the 30 fps threshold at 1280×720, and performance plummets to ~16 fps at 1080p. In other words, you can’t do any meaningful 1080p gaming with these chips in this title without resorting to extreme tactics to reduce quality. 

The Ryzen 7 5700G churns out a respectable 62 fps at 1280×720 and 37.6 fps at 1080p. That’s 19% faster at 1080p and 16% faster at 1280×720 than the Ryzen 5 3400G. The deltas shrink to 7% and 4% faster, respectively, than the Ryzen 7 4750G, but that’s largely inconsequential: The 4750G is OEM-only, so if you don’t plan on buying a full system, you can only buy it at scalper pricing via outlets like eBay. As shown in our Ryzen 7 4750G review, that kills the value proposition. 

Strange Brigade on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Our last foray into testing the UHD Graphics 750 engine in Strange Brigade happened at the Rocket Lake launch, and try as we might, we couldn’t get the cursor to appear on the screen. However, newer drivers (or perhaps a game update?) have ironed out that issue.

Strange Brigade now works just fine on our test system, but the 5700G is roughly 70% faster at both resolutions, capping the Ryzen 5000G’s commanding performance through the entire breadth of our integrated graphics test suite.  

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Discrete GPU Gaming Performance — The TLDR 

Below you can see the geometric mean of our gaming tests at 1080p and 1440p, with each resolution split into its own chart to give us a decent overall view of the current landscape. As per usual, we’re testing with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 to reduce GPU-imposed bottlenecks as much as possible, and differences between test subjects will shrink with lesser cards or higher resolutions. These are cumulative metrics, so individual wins vary on a per-title basis.

You’ll find the game-by-game test results further below. Some of these same benchmarks appeared in our integrated GPU testing above, but we used higher quality settings for the tests below. We didn’t test with the HP system here, so the test configurations are self-explanatory. 

AMD positions the Ryzen 5000G chips as the”non-X”equivalents for the Ryzen 5000 family. That means the 5700G should essentially slot in as a Ryzen 7 5800, which doesn’t make much sense given that AMD actually has a Ryzen 7 5800 that is OEM-only.

AMD’s positioning means that some enthusiasts will grab the 5700G as the non-X equivalent to the 5800X that requires a discrete GPU. Additionally, if the GPU shortage continues, it might be a good idea to use the 5700G’s iGPU as a stopgap before you and upgrade to a discrete GPU later. 

Here we can see how the chips stack up using the Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 5 5600X (they’re nearly identical in gaming) as the baseline.

One of the primary reasons to buy a reduced-TDP’non-X’AMD chip has always been that overclocking will typically bring the non-X chip within range of the more expensive X model. That’s exactly why the now-legendary Ryzen 5 3600 is so popular.

We haven’t tested overclocking with the 5700G yet because the motherboard firmware still appears raw, but it’s hard to see the Ryzen 7 5700G gaining 10 to 15% more dGPU gaming performance via overclocking. So it’s safe to say an overclocked 5700G won’t match the stock Ryzen 7 5800X, and it definitely won’t reach comparable levels after overclocking. As such, you should keep your expectations in check if you’re purchasing this chip as a cheaper non-X alternative.  

The 5700G lags the stock Intel processors by significant deltas, too, though it’s conceivable that you could reduce these deltas to tenable levels by overclocking the 5700G. That said, we’re comparing stock performance in this table, but as the charts above show, the Intel chips respond very well to overclocking. Unfortunately, we don’t see the Ryzen 5700G matching the overclocked Intel comparables on a like-for-like basis.

Our cursory examination doesn’t point to the Ryzen 7 5700G being the best value for gaming with a discrete GPU. Still, given the oddness of the market due to the ongoing shortages, it might fulfill a role as a stop-gap chip for some users. To give better purchasing advice, we’ll have to reassess the volatile discrete GPU market when the 5700G comes to market. We’ll skip the blow-by-blow analysis in the individual game results below because the results are fairly redundant and we don’t have overclocking tests yet. We’ll circle back to that at the official launch.

3D Mark, VRMark, Stockfish Chess Engine on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Borderlands 3 on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Far Cry 5 on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Hitman 2 on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Project CARS 3 on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Red Dead Redemption 2 on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Shadow of the Tomb Raider on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Application Benchmarks, the TLDR:

The charts above provide the geometric mean of several of our application tests (listed in the chart title), representing broader trends in lightly-and multi-threaded applications. Be sure to check our application tests below for performance in specific types of applications. To maintain consistency within our test pool, we conducted all of the tests below with a discrete graphics card handling the display output.

The quick takeaway is that the Ryzen 7 5700G marks a huge step forward over the Ryzen 5 3400G, which is expected from moving from four Zen+ cores to eight Zen 3 cores. The deltas in the table below speak for themselves. The 5700G also provides quite the step forward in threaded work over the Zen 2-equipped Ryzen 7 4750G, an OEM-only model.

Here we examine performance compared to the Core i7-11700K as the baseline. The eight-core $359 5700G matches the $300 six-core 5600X in single-threaded work and beats it in multi-threaded work, but still lags the $450 Ryzen 7 5800X in both tests despite having the same core counts and Zen 3 microarchitecture. These performance deltas are expected, though, due to the differences between the multi-die and monolithic designs, including different cache allocations and thermal characteristics.

The $359 Ryzen 7 5700G is slower than both Intel comparables in single-threaded tasks, but it does a nice job of slotting between the $399 Core i7-11700K and $262 Core i5-11600K’s performance in threaded work. The 11700K is 15% faster for about 12% more cash, but you’ll also have to factor the 5700G’s bundled heatsink into the equation.

Rendering Benchmarks on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Remember, the Ryzen 5 3400G is the only APU available at retail. The chip trails its more modern counterparts by massive margins in almost all of these threaded workloads, underlining that the 5700G is a massive step forward in terms of AMD’s widely available silicon. You could go the extra mile and score a 4750G-powered OEM system, but stepping up to the 5700G’s Zen 3 CPU cores makes much more sense for these types of applications. 

Things aren’t as rosy when we compared the 5700G to the Rocket Lake chips, though. The Core i7-11700K delivers quite a bit more performance in these threaded workloads, but it does come with a higher price tag. 

Encoding Benchmarks on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Our encoding tests include benchmarks that respond best to single-threaded performance, like the quintessential LAME and FLAC examples, but the SVT-AV1 and SVT-HEVC tests represent a newer class of threaded encoders. 

Again, we see massive generational leaps for AMD’s APU tech, and the 5700G more than holds its own in our LAME and Flac tests. The 5700G beats the stock Rocket Lake chips in the extended tests that cause the 11700K and 11600K to drop out of their turbo window and operate at base frequencies. 

We test HandBrake in both AVX-light x264 and AVX-heavy x265 flavors. Relative to the Rocket Lake chips, the 5700G again carves out a reasonable position on the chart given its price point. 

Office and Productivity on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Yet another Chrome update has broken out automated web browser benchmarks, and we’re working to address that issue. That leaves us with PC Mark 10’s built-in Edge test to quantify performance, but be aware that this test responds more to threading than any other type of web browser benchmark. 

Again, the 5700G takes strong steps forward in key areas that measure responsiveness, like the Application Start-Up benchmark. It also improves AMD’s APU positioning quite drastically in the Microsoft Office benchmark suite. 

Compilation, Compression, AVX Performance on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

The Ryzen 7 5700G improves both compression and decompression performance drastically over the prior-gen APU models, with the latter even beating out the overclocked intel Rocket Lake chips. 

Frankly, most of these tests aren’t terribly relevant to the target audience for this class of chip, they’re more important for higher-end chips, and we include them for completeness. Nevertheless, the timed LLVM compilation workload, y-cruncher, and NAMD tests do a wonderful job of illustrating the architectural advances AMD has made as it progressed through the Zen+ 3400G and Zen 2 4750G to the Zen 3 APU era with the Ryzen 7 5700G.  

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Power Consumption and Efficiency 

It’s no secret that Intel has dialed up the power with Rocket Lake to compete with AMD’s vastly more efficient chips. As such, there are no real surprises here — the Intel chips draw more power in every measurement.

AMD’s Zen 3 models are the most power-efficient desktop PC chips we’ve ever tested, and the Ryzen 7 5700G brings that same level of efficiency to the APU lineup. The y-cruncher multi-threaded benchmark hammers the chip with a threaded AVX-heavy workload. The eight-core 5700G draws five fewer watts than its eight-core predecessor, the 4750G, and only three more watts than the quad-core 3400G. That’s impressive given the massive performance improvements we logged in this benchmark during our application testing.

The 5700G drew more power during our HandBrake x265 and Blender workloads than the previous-gen 4750G. Still, as shown in the renders-per-day-per-watt chart above and the efficiency charts below, the chip delivers significantly more performance per watt. That’s a win in any book. 

Here we take a slightly different look at power consumption by calculating the cumulative amount of energy required to perform Blender and x265 HandBrake workloads, respectively. We plot this’task energy’value in Kilojoules on the left side of the chart. 

These workloads are comprised of a fixed amount of work, so we can plot the task energy against the time required to finish the job (bottom axis), thus generating a really useful power chart. 

Bear in mind that faster compute times, and lower task energy requirements, are ideal. That means processors that fall the closest to the bottom left corner of the chart are best. 

Conclusion

AMD’s Ryzen 7 5700G brings the vaunted Zen 3 architecture and big CPU performance gains to its APU lineup, and the integrated Radeon RX Vega graphics engine provides smooth 1080p gaming if you’re willing to accept lower fidelity settings and a limited selection of titles. The chips also deliver unbeatable iGPU performance for 1280×720 gaming.

We jumped the gun and put the Ryzen 7 5700G through our test suite before AMD’s official launch in August. Given the fluid state of the chip market right now, it’s hard to give solid buying advice in advance – both CPU and GPU pricing and availability is extremely volatile. Additionally, recent signs point to GPU supply and pricing slowly improving.

The charts below outline three areas of performance: The geometric mean of our suite of integrated graphics tests at both 1920×1080 (FHD) and 1280×720 resolutions, the geometric mean of performance with a discrete GPU, and performance in single-and multi-threaded workloads. 

If you’re looking to find the fastest integrated graphics performance on the market, the Ryzen 7 5700G is the uncontested champ. As long as you adjust your expectations and fidelity/resolution settings accordingly, the Cezanne chip is plenty serviceable for its target audience. We found 1280×720 gaming to be solid across numerous titles, and while the number of titles you can play comfortably becomes restricted at 1080p, you can get away with 1080p gaming with reduced fidelity settings in many titles, too.

The Ryzen 7 5700G also provides solid performance with a discrete GPU, but despite AMD’s positioning of the 5700G as a filler for the non-X models that it traditionally sprinkled throughout its product stack, it isn’t the best value if you’re looking to use it solely with a dedicated card. As such, it’s hard to say the 5700G lives up to the non-X billing. You’ll be far better served with a Ryzen 5 5600X or Core i5-11400 if you’re looking to build a system specifically for dGPU gaming. Given the current environment, though, the main attraction for the 5700G will be as a stop-gap solution for enthusiasts as they wait out the GPU shortage.

If your focus is strictly on the productivity side of matters, the $359 Ryzen 7 5700G’s performance in threaded applications slots in between the $399 Core i7-11700K and $262 Core i5-11600K. The 11700K is 15% faster in threaded applications and 6% faster in single-threaded work for about 12% more cash. You’ll also have to factor the 5700G’s bundled Wraith Stealth heatsink into the equation (the 11700K doesn’t ship with a cooler). Conversely, the Core i5-11600K has similar performance in single-threaded work and is 10% slower in threaded work for 27% less cache. That means there are more attractive chips on either side of the pricing spectrum if you don’t need the 5700G’s integrated graphics.

If you choose the 5700G over a’standard’Ryzen 5000 chip, you’ll sacrifice half the L3 cache, 100 MHz of peak boost clock speed, and the PCIe 4.0 interface. While PCIe 4.0 doesn’t deliver any gains in gaming performance, that could change in the future with the Windows 11 Direct Storage feature that will utilize NVMe SSDs more fully.

Overall, if you already have a discrete GPU for your build, we think most enthusiasts will be better served with other alternatives, be they from the Ryzen 5000 product stack or Intel’s lineup. Pricing is fluid, though, so be sure to check our list of Best CPUs for the latest advice.  

That leaves the Ryzen 7 5700G as an attractive chip for the normal target audience-it will be the hands-down champ for extreme budget gaming, small form factor, and HTPC rigs. This chip could also slot in as a much-needed temporary solution for enthusiasts that can’t find a graphics card at reasonable pricing, but we’ll have to temper our expectations. AMD has had considerable difficulty assuring a supply of its standard higher-margin chips, so it remains to be seen if we’ll see many of the Cezanne chips in stock. 

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