3DMark Benchmarks

Then we've seen how the CPU performs, let's motion on to the large story regarding the Ryzen 5 2500U: the GPU. The Vega 8 GPU inside this chip is a beast compared to the UHD 620 graphics in Kaby Lake Refresh, boasting around 2.5x the raw compute power. When you lot consider this APU features the aforementioned 15W TDP, this is an impressive feat from the AMD team, and goes to prove how well their graphics architecture scales downwardly.

I'll get to bodily gaming in a moment, but first I wanted to take a await at 3DMark. And I'm jumping right in the deep end here past looking at Time Spy, the most intensive 3DMark workload that's conspicuously manner likewise intensive to run sensibly on a laptop.

However it does give some interesting insights, particularly equally this test is entirely GPU limited. Here the Ryzen 5 2500U is just over twice every bit fast equally the Core i7-8550U when viewing the overall score, and this improves to a two.1x atomic number 82 in the graphics score. What this shows is that in a very intensive GPU workload, Ryzen has more a 2x pb in the same power envelope.

The Ryzen v 2500U as well has a 2.2x atomic number 82 in Burn Strike, though every bit we motion downwards into the less intensive workloads, Ryzen's lead starts to slip in the overall score as the tests go heavier on the CPU. In Heaven Diver we see a 1.82x atomic number 82 for Ryzen over the 8550U, and in Cloud Gate this drops to 1.33x.

Let's not forget hither that we're comparing Ryzen five to a Core i7 either. The Ryzen 7 2700U uses a Vega 10 GPU with 640 shaders compared to 512 in the Ryzen v, along with a clock speed heave, so when comparing Ryzen 7 to Core i7, AMD's APU will pull even further ahead.