JULY 2019 PCWorld 17gaming figures
that show fair
performance for
the Ryzen 5
3400G when
gaming at 1080p
resolution.
Intel’s Core
i5-9400 with its
integrated
UHD
graphics hasn’t
ever hung with
AMD’s graphics
cores, and it
looks like the
Ryzen 3000
APUs hit even
harder. This
might very well
change when
Intel’s new Gen
graphics hit the
street in its
upcoming Ice
Lake CPUs (go.
pcworld.
com/10th), but
when those graphics cores even make it into a
budget desktop part from Intel is anyone’s guess.
In the end, the Ryzen APU updates are
welcome as there are plenty of worthy
improvements in AMD’s Zen+ cores, but
these chips don’t look to bring the buzz
factor that the big 16-core and 12-core Ryzen
9 chips bring.
They’ll likely still be very solid budget
gaming chips, especially for people who
can’t invest in a discrete graphics card (go.
pcworld.com/dcrt).AMD released benchmarks that most cynical nerds will say were picked to stress its
strength in graphics and deemphasize its x86 performance. Good marketing AMD,
but yeah, we see what you did there.Not breaking news: Radeon Vega 11 stomps Intel’s UHD630 still.