Discrete Graphics

For this set of tests, we have paired the Ryzen 4000 APUs with an NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti (the best GPU we have on hand) to see how discrete performance varies from CPU-to-CPU. One potential upgrade path for users that have a limited budget is to buy their system piece by piece, and purchasing an APU allows for some gaming to occur while still enabling the purchase of a full discrete graphics card further down the line.

All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.

Gaming Tests: Chernobylite

Chernobylite is an indie title that plays on a science-fiction survival horror experience and uses a 3D-scanned recreation of the real Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It involves challenging combat, a mix of free exploration with crafting and non-linear story telling. While still in early access, it is already picking up plenty of awards.

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Gaming Tests: Civilization 6

Originally penned by Sid Meier and his team, the Civilization series of turn-based strategy games are a cult classic, and many an excuse for an all-nighter trying to get Gandhi to declare war on you due to an integer underflow.

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Gaming Tests: Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Deus Ex:MD combines first-person, stealth, and role-playing elements, with the game set in Prague, dealing with themes of transhumanism, conspiracy theories, and a cyberpunk future. The game allows the player to select their own path (stealth, gun-toting maniac) and offers multiple solutions to its puzzles.

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Gaming Tests: Final Fantasy XIV

In 2019, FFXIV launched its Shadowbringers expansion, and an official standalone benchmark was released at the same time for users to understand what level of performance they could expect. Much like the FF15 benchmark we’ve been using for a while, this test is a long 7-minute scene of simulated gameplay within the title. There are a number of interesting graphical features, and it certainly looks more like a 2019 title than a 2010 release, which is when FF14 first came out.

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Gaming Tests: Final Fantasy XV

The game uses the internal Luminous Engine, and as with other Final Fantasy games, pushes the imagination of what we can do with the hardware underneath us. To that end, FFXV was one of the first games to promote the use of ‘video game landscape photography’, due in part to the extensive detail even at long range but also with the integration of NVIDIA’s Ansel software, that allowed for super-resolution imagery and post-processing effects to be applied.

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Gaming Tests: World of Tanks

World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features.

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Gaming Tests: Borderlands 3

The fourth title of the franchise, Borderlands 3 expands the universe beyond Pandora and its orbit, with the set of heroes (plus those from previous games) now cruising the galaxy looking for vaults and the treasures within. Popular Characters like Tiny Tina, Claptrap, Lilith, Dr. Zed, Zer0, Tannis, and others all make appearances as the game continues its cel-shaded design but with the graphical fidelity turned up.

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Gaming Tests: F1 2019

The 2019 edition of the game features all 21 circuits on the calendar for that year, and includes a range of retro models and DLC focusing on the careers of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. This edition revamps up the Career mode, with features such as in-season driver swaps coming into the mix, and the quality of the graphics this time around is also superb, even at 4K low or 1080p Ultra.

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Gaming Tests: Far Cry 5

The fifth title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration with a lot of configurability.

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Gaming Tests: Gears Tactics

Gears Tactics is a high-fidelity turn-based strategy game with an extensive single player mode. As with a lot of turn-based games, there is ample opportunity to crank up the visual effects, and here the developers have put a lot of effort into creating effects, a number of which seem to be CPU limited.

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Gaming Tests: GTA 5

The highly anticipated iteration of the Grand Theft Auto franchise hit the shelves on April 14th 2015, with both AMD and NVIDIA to help optimize the title. At this point GTA V is super old, but still super useful as a benchmark – it is a complicated test with many features that modern titles today still struggle with. With rumors of a GTA 6 on the horizon, I hope Rockstar make that benchmark as easy to use as this one is.

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Gaming Tests: Red Dead Redemption 2

It’s great to have another Rockstar benchmark in the mix, and the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) on the PC gives us a chance to do that. Building on the success of the original RDR, the second incarnation came to Steam in December 2019 having been released on consoles first. The PC version takes the open-world cowboy genre into the start of the modern age, with a wide array of impressive graphics and features that are eerily close to reality.

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Gaming Tests: Strange Brigade

Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt, and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen, who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her.

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Integrated Graphics CPU Benchmarks: Real World
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  • MDD1963 - Friday, December 18, 2020 - link

    So, in a nutshell, this is still just a better CPU but still crippled with just over (barely) GT1030-level of integrated graphics...
  • Assimilator87 - Friday, December 18, 2020 - link

    To everyone complaining about the benchmark resolutions/settings: Just double the results of the 1080p benchmarks and that's the ballpark 720p performance. I'm sure 1080p max was used in order to make sure there was a complete GPU bottleneck. That's the only way to compare the GPUs in relation to each other. Once you have that scale, you can extrapolate to other resolutions.

    Ian, what happened to the Subor Z+ review? That would be such an incredibly interesting comparison point.
  • McFly323 - Friday, December 18, 2020 - link

    The best World APU is PS5 AMD APU.But the AMD will never release that for PC buyers because that would murder PC components market.
  • Oxford Guy - Friday, December 18, 2020 - link

    Since these are OEM-only I wouldn't expect to see them married to high-performance RAM.

    Many are looking at this lineup from the point of view of the build-a-gaming-PC-myself enthusiast sector but one can also look at it from the point of view of "How much does slow OEM RAM hobble these APUs?" Since OEMS often tout the performance of products that don't perform as well as they could or should (a thing helped out by companies that sell stealth watered-down versions of their products, sometimes with the same name attached) it's useful to have the information out there about how they will perform with baseline RAM.

    However, given that 3200 has been cheap for a long time (I got 16 GB for $90 in 2016 as I recall) it would be good to always have the tests show both the slow RAM and something affordable like 3200 that offers quite a bit more performance.

    One problem that a company like AMD faces if making CPUs like this is the possibility of them being used with slow RAM. The way around that is to engineer the CPUs to fail to run with slow RAM.
  • Oxford Guy - Friday, December 18, 2020 - link

    "The way around that is to engineer the CPUs to fail to run with slow RAM."

    So, not doing that means the company is satisfied with the parts being hobbled by slow RAM, not just the OEM.
  • vol.2 - Saturday, December 19, 2020 - link

    If they make IGPU performance "deliver," it will eat into the sales of DGPUs.
  • Valantar - Sunday, December 20, 2020 - link

    It's great to see these reviewed! I bought a 4650G off a German ebay store a couple of months back, and I couldn't be happier with it for my HTPC. Sips power (I've never seen it exceed 110W at the wall), and performs admirably. With my Crucial Sport LT 3200C16 running happily at 3800C16 (1:1:1) (with near zero effort thanks to 1usmus' dram calc) and the iGPU at 2100 it delivers 60-75fps in Rocket League at 1080p Quality preset, which is perfectly enjoyable. I understand AT's choice of running JEDEC max spec DRAM, but for these chips in particular I think DRAM OC testing would be a good idea.
  • artifex - Monday, December 21, 2020 - link

    I feel let down by AMD that they won't officially put their better APUs out in the retail chain, when most AM4 boards out there have video connectors and associated hardware ready to support them. It's like a promise that can't be fulfilled.
  • tkSteveFOX - Monday, December 21, 2020 - link

    The Vega architecture and lack of DDR4X high speed RAM make AMD APU's just not worth it when you can get a 2600x and pair it with an RX5500 or GTX1650 or even an older 1050Ti and deliver 30-60% more gaming performance.
    With RDNA integrated, AMD could have blown away any Intel iGPU and lower end Nvidia solutions.
    This 4th gen AMD Desktop APUs are simply not worth it.
  • Brane2 - Wednesday, December 23, 2020 - link

    Isn't that a bit late now, that 5xxxx is to come out ?

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