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Well I bought a 2400G to get the "Full Raven Ridge Experience" and well here are some of my thoughts on it. For starters, the kit I am trying to use (An Avexir 3200 MHz CL16) kit will not run at anything higher than 2866 MHz with either of my 2200G and 2400G in my MSI B350 Mortar Motherboard. So I settled with 2866 C15-16-16-16-36. I have overclocked the iGPU to 1500 MHz, which is quite a nice result. 1600 is just not stable though The CPU side is running a t locked 3.9 GHz.
At first I have been playing at 1280x800 on a 19" 1440x900 monitor. I am playing games like Dying Light, Fallout 4, Warframe, PlanetSide 2, so far. I am very impressed! It is managing 50-60fps at medium/low settings (I even use Ultra lighting in Fallout 4). In PlanetSide 2 i ran at native 1440x900 and medium settings. However the real gem of my experience has been Warframe to which I was able to run at 1080p MAX settings.
However. After gaming a lot on the APU I have noticed that I am actually CPU bound a lot of the time. Even at 1080p MAX settings in Warframe (I know it's very CPU heavy) I am 50fps~ CPU bound (The IGPU is at 70-80% utilisation). This is odd to me because all of my other Ryzen parts, 1200, 1600, 1700 and 1800X that I have owned (even at 3.9) have managed a lot higher averages than this. And I play Warframe A LOT so I notice these things. I usually get 70-80fps averages in 4 player matches with lots of mobs with Ryzen. It's 80+ all day on my 4.1 GHz 1800X...
I know this is anecdotal but i have noticed it in Fallout 4 too. I would expect the GPU to be at 100% all the time but something is up. My initial theory is the smaller L3 cache size is hurting the CPU performance and causing it to go to memory more often - and of course with sharing the same interface as a beefy integrated GPU, there's not going to be an awful lot of bandwidth available for the CPU. Could this be the cause? Neither CPU and GPU are at anywhere near full Utiliation and I am unsure of the bottleneck here...
So overall I am very impressed with Raven Ridge. AMD has made a real gem here and I am excited to see what small ITX SFF builds can be possible that have GPU power rivalling/exceeding Xbox one! With a much more capable CPU.
But anyway Is my 2866Mhz ram bottlenecking me massively? I think I will try my RX 560 in instead, and see if the FPS is just as low without the iGPU rendering things. If it's not, that pretty much confirms my theory.
Well I bought a 2400G to get the "Full Raven Ridge Experience" and well here are some of my thoughts on it. For starters, the kit I am trying to use (An Avexir 3200 MHz CL16) kit will not run at anything higher than 2866 MHz with either of my 2200G and 2400G in my MSI B350 Mortar Motherboard. So I settled with 2866 C15-16-16-16-36. I have overclocked the iGPU to 1500 MHz, which is quite a nice result. 1600 is just not stable though The CPU side is running a t locked 3.9 GHz.
At first I have been playing at 1280x800 on a 19" 1440x900 monitor. I am playing games like Dying Light, Fallout 4, Warframe, PlanetSide 2, so far. I am very impressed! It is managing 50-60fps at medium/low settings (I even use Ultra lighting in Fallout 4). In PlanetSide 2 i ran at native 1440x900 and medium settings. However the real gem of my experience has been Warframe to which I was able to run at 1080p MAX settings.
However. After gaming a lot on the APU I have noticed that I am actually CPU bound a lot of the time. Even at 1080p MAX settings in Warframe (I know it's very CPU heavy) I am 50fps~ CPU bound (The IGPU is at 70-80% utilisation). This is odd to me because all of my other Ryzen parts, 1200, 1600, 1700 and 1800X that I have owned (even at 3.9) have managed a lot higher averages than this. And I play Warframe A LOT so I notice these things. I usually get 70-80fps averages in 4 player matches with lots of mobs with Ryzen. It's 80+ all day on my 4.1 GHz 1800X...
I know this is anecdotal but i have noticed it in Fallout 4 too. I would expect the GPU to be at 100% all the time but something is up. My initial theory is the smaller L3 cache size is hurting the CPU performance and causing it to go to memory more often - and of course with sharing the same interface as a beefy integrated GPU, there's not going to be an awful lot of bandwidth available for the CPU. Could this be the cause? Neither CPU and GPU are at anywhere near full Utiliation and I am unsure of the bottleneck here...
So overall I am very impressed with Raven Ridge. AMD has made a real gem here and I am excited to see what small ITX SFF builds can be possible that have GPU power rivalling/exceeding Xbox one! With a much more capable CPU.
But anyway Is my 2866Mhz ram bottlenecking me massively? I think I will try my RX 560 in instead, and see if the FPS is just as low without the iGPU rendering things. If it's not, that pretty much confirms my theory.
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