I have NON-NDA access to Ryzen with Vega..

KazeoHin

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Going to do some tests... What would you like to see??

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Everything please.
Edit- Memory speed. Curious at what speed IF can run.
 
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mine sweeper!

cool, anything really. people like cinebench and firestrike...
 
In my shop we have access to 2133, 2400, 3000 and 3200 speed RAM, as well as coolers of all shape and sizes. We'll test single AND dual channel configurations.

We'll try stock, non voltage OC, and Max Stable OC

Cinebench, Valley, Heaven, Doom (demo), Superposition, any others?
 
Something reasonably comparative. Thus as close to apples to apples but of course different. Want to see against old AMD and Intel integrated GPU, hopefully contemporary. So... unless you have that equipment, see if you can replicate a test already out there with some results.
 
Something reasonably comparative. Thus as close to apples to apples but of course different. Want to see against old AMD and Intel integrated GPU, hopefully contemporary. So... unless you have that equipment, see if you can replicate a test already out there with some results.

We have an AM4 9800 APU to test out, as well as radeon 550s, 1050s and above.
 
I saw one yt video that claimed it was better than a 550 but his chart said 550(mobile) so that would be interesting. a 550 is kinda crap, I've used one, but it is leaps and bounds ahead of any Intel onboard.
 
Did you jog there or something? Cuz you're sweating like its the middle of summer.
 
In my shop we have access to 2133, 2400, 3000 and 3200 speed RAM, as well as coolers of all shape and sizes. We'll test single AND dual channel configurations.

We'll try stock, non voltage OC, and Max Stable OC

Cinebench, Valley, Heaven, Doom (demo), Superposition, any others?


Render a Premiere Pro test scene, but setup OS/Applications drive, scratch drive, media/capture, whatever you feel represents your beginner/prosumer NLE setup.
Disk performance keeps getting left out yet "work" is constantly touted.
Work for a lot of people is going to be drive heavy,

You could run the whole Phoronix suite, only metric I notice for overall performance is: https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/build-linux-kernel

Anyone else have any real world tests to suggest to the OP?
 
Power from the wall readings for various tests. Overclocking ability CPU and GPU. Undervolting potential (too many forget that undervolting becomes very advantages for HTPC's and SFF builds).

These are 45w-65w processors which I am inclined to rebuild a commodore 64 again- previous APU attempts (2) just was not spectacular plus heat issues.
 
3D Mark Firestrike and Time Spy would be great. And maybe Cryptonight hashrate? (not sure if miners support it, although I know xmr-stak generally has the best support for random hardware.)

mostly interested in the ryzen 3 but benchmarks for both would be great.
 
Godamn windows update is KILLING ME. trying to get a stable benchmark on the older 9800, on such low powered devices and suddenly the update service starts using 50% of the CPU!
 
So, turns out the drive we chose to benchmark on completely died. Lost all the benchmark data.

What I can tell you is that dual- channel RAM makes a huge difference. It's not a small blip, it's an upward of 3-4x the performance just by adding a second stick.
 
I'll have to reinstall windows, drivers, all the benchmark software, most of it from the net/steam... By the time I actually get that done NDA will be lifted...

Well, I tried.

Edit: my co-worker is staying back to try to recover the bench data and continue benchmarking, but I'm a defeated man. I'm going home and start drinking. Hours down the drain don't feel good, man.
 
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Booooo. LOL j/k. Comes to show that this type of testing is not easy despite all of the critisism.
 
Booooo. LOL j/k. Comes to show that this type of testing is not easy despite all of the critisism.
No joke, man.

I knew the ins and outs, not my first rodeo, but damn people don't understand how long it takes to get a single excel graph completed.

Sites like HARDOCP give you dozens of graphs equalling close to 50 points of data for each damn review they do. Hats off to Kyle et. All.
 
The catchphrase has changed from "Does it play Crysis?" to "Does it mine crypto(eth)?".
Edit- Kyle, you know the drill. Turn it up and rip the knob off.
 
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Thanks for the work. What are temps and voltages like for these at stock? Any preliminary tries at overclock?

We used a hyped212-like cooler for the tests, so I don't think temps were an issue at all, the stock Wraith cooler should keep this little thing quite cool as well.

To give you an idea, the A12-9800 APU barely managed to get 10 FPS average in Valley using the same settings that were shown above.

It's video performance is roughly 2-3x more powerful than the last gen APU.
 
was 4ghz the max overclock?

For those interested, i ran the unigine benchmarks on the same settings except Ryzen 7 @ 3.6ghz RX560 2gb 1295/1800


Heaven:
Avg fps: 52.4
Minimum fps: 30.6
max fps: 114.8
score: 1321

Valley:
Avg fps: 53.9
minimum fps: 18.7
max fps: 95.7
score: 2252

I think these APUs are neat chips, but in my mind they need to be a lot closer to an rx 560 2gb to get my respect.
 
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was 4ghz the max overclock?

For those interested, i ran the unigine benchmarks on the same settings except Ryzen 7 @ 3.6ghz RX560 2gb 1295/1800


Heaven:
Avg fps: 52.4
Minimum fps: 30.6
max fps: 114.8
score: 1321

Valley:
Avg fps: 53.9
minimum fps: 18.7
max fps: 95.7
score: 2252

I think these APUs are neat chips, but in my mind they need to be a lot closer to an rx 560 2gb to get my respect.


we only tried for the 4.0 GHz, we ARE curious to see if these can go a bit harder...

also, the video performance is up there with an RX550, which is still pretty awesome, compared to other integrated solutions from either camp. We're talking about "yes, it can run Crysis" on integrated. For entry level systems and casual couch gaming PCs, this is damn close to "the one" for me.
 
the hp is on sale for $629, thats not bad....


The only problem is,AMD doesn't get any better efficiency in this combined package. That HP notebook with Vega APU has lower performance than the MX150, which is available in similar-specced and similar -priced systems.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...154&cm_re=mx150_laptop-_-34-316-154-_-Product


The AMD GPU uses the same amount of power as the MX150 notebooks as well. The desktop version offers much faster performance, but at a doubling of power consumption.

AMD has a much better chance of making inroads with the discrete Intel Kaby G parts on notebooks. Every high-performance Raven Ridge notebook with dual-channel DDR4 will have the same large PCB as one containing single channel DDR4 and 64-bit GDDR5. And there's no price, performance or power advantage.
 
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