Are all new APUs saving money?

The listing of the Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G made a crowd of players excited. For the first time, there was such a strong CPU core presence that there was a sense of “buy is earned”. However, after calm down, APU is not your food, this question you want to clear it?

Who is better than the performance comparison?

Ryzen 5 2400G, Ryzen 3 2200G two processors in the CPU part, the overall point of view, the former is close to i3 8100, the latter is close to i5 8400, looks very similar to positioning. However, it is worth noting that in the single-core performance part, the lead of i3 8100 and i5 8400 is still very obvious, which is an unavoidable fact.

The other is the nuclear performance that everyone pays attention to. This part of either the Ryzen 5 2400G or the Ryzen 3 2200G is leading the latter with absolute advantages. After all, the i3 8100 and i5 8400 are all the same UHD630. It's a bit difficult to talk about graphics performance.

But from another perspective, is the Regazen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G set of Vega RX really good enough? Many tests show that the Vega core performance of the Ryzen 5 2400G is roughly equivalent to 90% of that of the GT1030. The Vega core performance of the 8 units of the Ryzen 3 2200G is about 15% lower than that of the GT1030. . Specific performance, we can look forward to pushing CFan before the "strongest integrated graphics APU can play games? 》

Value or not to look like this

Well, the difference in performance is like this, and the next is the price issue. Xiao Bian chooses boxed CPUs for comparison. The price of the Ryzen 5 2400G is 1299 yuan, that of the Ryzen 3 2200G is 759 yuan, that of the i5 8400 is 1499 yuan, and that of the i3 8100 is 899 yuan. See the price will certainly say, must be Ryzen two more cost-effective it!

At present, with the full listing of the Intel 300 series chipset, the price of the 8th generation Core is back on the right track, and the motherboard is mostly at the level of 500 to 800 yuan, which is almost the same as the price of AMD's 300 series chipset motherboards.

From the point of view of the presented bonus, the AMD platform is undoubtedly more value-worthy - after all, it sent a "GT1030 graphics card" worth about 600 yuan, so that at an approximate price point (even if the Intel platform is slightly more expensive), Ryzen APU will no doubt More value.

However, if it is a pure game player, this "value" is not so important, after all, just close to the GT1030 entry-level performance alone, the price of additional equipment alone is very close, even if the CPU expensive 200 yuan, But don't forget that game performance has always been the strength of Intel processors (single core performance, execution efficiency).

Whether to save money depends on here!

As Xiao Bian said, if it is a game player, or users who focus on single-core efficiency, Intel platform is still very tempting. Another particularly important part is that the Ryzen APU has relatively high memory requirements. To fully exploit the performance of the APU, it is necessary to use dual channel memory, which greatly reduces the flexibility of budget allocation during installation.

The Intel platform can use single-channel memory, and the overall performance loss is about 15%, but the AMD platform is different. Loss of memory performance is similar to that of the Intel platform, but if the dual-channel memory is lost in the core part, the performance will have a loss of at least 30%!

In general, Ryzen APU is more suitable for higher overall performance requirements, and the game performance requirements are not strong, but there is a little partner to use. But it is not all-consuming, after all, there is no one product that can meet everyone's needs. Therefore, if the installation is a pursuit of one button, there is no upgrade plan in the short term, and the game demand is not strong. APU is undoubtedly a very good choice.