Ryzen Hybrids Have Been More Powerful than Consoles Last Year, and Now Renoir Seals Success

Ryzen Hybrids Have Been More Powerful than Consoles Last Year, and Now Renoir Seals Success

AMD unveiled the Ryzen 4000G (Renoir) desktop APUs last week. They are intended for use in off-the-shelf computers, which hasn’t stopped them from appearing in retail. Because of this positioning, full-fledged reviews of these processors did not come out, but the results of individual tests appear on the Web every now and then. This time it turned out that the desktop Renoir outperforms the chips of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles in “bare” performance.

The current generation set-top boxes came out in the fall of 2013, and they are both built on 28nm SoCs with the same architecture but different configurations. Both SoCs have a CPU with eight Jaguar cores clocked at 1.6 GHz and throughput of about 0.1 teraflops. The PS4 GPU with AMD Graphic Core Next (GCN) architecture has 1152 stream processors and performance of 1.84 teraflops. In turn, Xbox One has only 768 stream processors with the same architecture and performance up to 1.3 teraflops.

Nearly 7 years later, AMD has introduced desktop APUs that vastly outperforms both the Xbox One and PS4, not only in CPU performance but more importantly in GPU performance. As a reminder, the Ryzen 4000G offers up to eight CPU cores with Zen 2 architecture and up to 512 stream processors in an integrated GPU with improved Vega architecture.

The central processor of the flagship Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G, according to the AIDA64 GPGPU performance test, has a performance of 1.1 teraflops (FP32), while the integrated graphics are capable of providing 2.15 teraflops. That is, in total, we get 3.25 teraflops. But it turns out that even one GPU here is ahead in the theoretical performance of the CPU and GPU of the PlayStation 4 consoles combined.

Note that not only the flagship of the Renoir family is faster than current consoles. The mid-range AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G processor with six cores, 12 threads, and a GPU with 448 stream processors delivers a combined result of 2.5 teraflops. The younger Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G with four cores, eight threads, and 384 stream processors is capable of providing a total of 1.9 teraflops, which is again higher than the Xbox One and comparable to the PS4.

In fairness, it should be noted that the senior hybrid processor of the last generation Ryzen 5 3400G had integrated graphics with a performance of 1.97 teraflops. So Renoir can be said to have cemented its success at all levels. Also, note that this is only theoretical performance and may not be the case in games. However, in general, the flagship Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G demonstrates quite good performance in modern games in Full HD resolution. It is capable of playable 30 FPS.