Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review
by Ian Cutress on February 12, 2018 9:00 AM ESTBenchmarking Performance: CPU Web Tests
One of the issues when running web-based tests is the nature of modern browsers to automatically install updates. This means any sustained period of benchmarking will invariably fall foul of the 'it's updated beyond the state of comparison' rule, especially when browsers will update if you give them half a second to think about it. Despite this, we were able to find a series of commands to create an un-updatable version of Chrome 56 for our 2017 test suite. While this means we might not be on the bleeding edge of the latest browser, it makes the scores between CPUs comparable.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
Mozilla Kraken 1.1: link
Kraken is a Javascript based benchmark, using the same test harness as SunSpider, but focusing on more stringent real-world use cases and libraries, such as audio processing and image filters. Again, the basic test is looped ten times, and we run the basic test four times.
With the newer high-performance cores, AMD gets a fair crack at benchmarks like Mozilla, where it historically lagged behind with its Bulldozer-family architecture.
Google Octane 2.0: link
Along with Mozilla, as Google is a major browser developer, having peak JS performance is typically a critical asset when comparing against the other OS developers. In the same way that SunSpider is a very early JS benchmark, and Kraken is a bit newer, Octane aims to be more relevant to real workloads, especially in power constrained devices such as smartphones and tablets.
In recent years, Intel has made strides on its Octane performance. So even with cores and threads, and the sizable jump up from Kaveri, AMD is still behind on this test.
WebXPRT 2015: link
While the previous three benchmarks do calculations in the background and represent a score, WebXPRT is designed to be a better interpretation of visual workloads that a professional user might have, such as browser based applications, graphing, image editing, sort/analysis, scientific analysis and financial tools.
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Gideon - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
BTW Octane 2.0 is retired for Google (just check their github), and even they endorse using Mozillas Speedometer 2.0 (darn can't find the relevant blog post).Ian Cutress - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
I know; in the same way we have legacy benchmarks up, some people like to look at the data.Not directed to you in general, but don't worry if 100% of the benchmarks aren't important to you: If there's 40 you care about, and we have 80 that include those 40, don't worry that the other 40 aren't relevant for what you want. I find it surprising how many people want 100% of the tests to be relevant to them, even if it means fewer tests. Optane was easy to script up and a minor addition, just like CB11.5 is. As time marches on, we add more.
kmmatney - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
In this case, a few 720p gaming benchmarks would have been useful, or even 1080p at medium or low settings.III-V - Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - link
Who uses 720p and is in the market for this?PeachNCream - Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - link
I'm happy with 1366x768 and I'm seriously considering the 2400G because it looks like it can handle max detail settings at that resolution. I'm not interested in playing at high resolutions, but I do like having all the other non-AA eye candy turned on.atatassault - Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - link
People who buy sub $100 monitors.WorldWithoutMadness - Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - link
Just google GDP per capita and you'll find huge market for 720p budget gaming pc.Sarah Terra - Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - link
Wow, i just came here after not visiting in ages, really sad to see how far this site has fallen.Ian Cutress was the worst thing that ever happened to Anandtech.
At one point AT was the defacto standard for tech news on the web, but now it has simply become irrelevant.
Unless things change i see AT slowly but surely dying
lmcd - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link
Wow, I just came to this article after not visiting for ages, really sad to see how the comment section has fallenmikato - Thursday, February 15, 2018 - link
Me. My TV is 720p and still kicking after many years. These CPUs would make for a perfect high end HTPC with some solid gaming ability. Awesome.