Gaming Benchmarks

Moving on nosotros're comparison the integrated GPU in a number of the processors merely tested to older discrete graphics cards that you tin now buy second hand for pocket change.

Please annotation all discrete graphics cards have been tested with the Cadre i3-8100 using 16GB'south of DDR4-2400 memory. So for comparison the Raven Ridge APUs accept been tested using their Vega 8 and Vega 11 integrated graphics and they've been paired with 16GB's of DDR4-3200 memory and the Althon 200GE with 8GB'south of DDR4-2666.

Equally you can run across the 200GE was skilful for an average of just 32 fps at 720p using the medium quality settings. Disappointingly this made it 27% slower than the A12-9800 and although the Athlon function information technology features a newer GPU compages, it has far fewer cores available, so we're going to find mixed operation when compared to the A12-9800. Still what'due south important here for AMD is that the 200GE smoked the Cadre i3-8100 and Pentium G4560.

In stark contrast to what was seen when testing with Fortnite, the 200GE crushes the A12-9800 in Battlefront 2. The game was even playable at 720p using the lowest quality settings then that'southward something, it certainly wasn't using the Core i3-8100 and Pentium G4560.

Testing with Counter-Strike Global Offensive sees the 200GE slip back backside the A12-9800, though it was 41% faster than the G4560.

The 200GE crushes the G4560 and A12-9800 in DOTA 2 using the highest quality settings at 720p and using low quality settings does push frame rates up over lx fps.

Performance in Overwatch is also decent using the medium quality preset and here the 200GE offered a niggling over 30% more performance than the A12-9800 and 82% more than the G4560.

Every bit if ofttimes the case with entry-level solutions nosotros find that PUBG is a no go with the 200GE, here nosotros're just seeing Cadre i3-8100 like performance which is very disappointing, simply then information technology is PUBG so who's surprised.

Rocket League is very playable at 720p using the highest quality settings, and then gaming at 1080p with reduced quality volition be possible. The 200GE managed to edge out the A12-9800 and crush the G4560.

Finally we accept Rainbow Six Siege and here the 200GE comes in well behind the A12-9800, at least for the average frame charge per unit. Still nosotros do encounter playable performance and this wasn't the case with the Pentium G4560.

Before wrapping up the testing I wanted to investigate what might have been. Using the 2400G and the Wraith Stealth I disabled two cores and then locked the ii remaining cores with SMT at iii.9 GHz. Basically this gives usa an unlocked 200GE, simply with a better integrated GPU, just here we are going to focus on the CPU performance.

So what we have here is a 22% CPU core overclock from 3.two GHz to iii.9 GHz. This boosted single core performance past exactly 22% in Cinebench R15, while we encounter a multi-threaded score increase of 18%. That'due south nothing to sneeze at and it means if unlocked, the 200GE would have the potential to destroy Intel'due south sub $100 CPU range, chirapsia the Pentium G5400 while costing less.