At the beginning of January this year, AMD released a new Ryzen 6000 series mobile processor at CES2022, using a 6nm process process, Zen3+ architecture, and a nuclear display upgrade to the RDNA 2 architecture, claiming that the game performance directly doubled. Recently, I just got a product equipped with Ryzen™ 7 6800H, let's first simply test whether the RDNA 2 architecture nuclear display of the Ryzen 6000 series can really be qualified for the AAA game masterpiece?
The Ryzen™ 7 6800H, like the Ryzen™ 6800U highlighted at the press conference, is equipped with a 12-core nuclear display, a maximum acceleration frequency of up to 2200MHz, and supports AMD FidelityFX Super-Resolution (FSR) technology, similar to Nvidia's DLSS, which is to appropriately reduce the rendering resolution of the game and use algorithms to stretch the image to the target resolution, thereby greatly improving game performance. In addition, the performance of the core display has a lot to do with the memory, I am using two 8GB DDR 4800MHz high-frequency memory, while setting the computer to the mode of the strongest performance release. Let's take a look at the results of the 3D Mark running score test:
Judging from the test results, the nuclear display performance of the Ryzen 7 6800H slightly surpassed the exclusive MX450 launched by Nvidia for thin and light costs, reaching the level of 70-80% of the GTX 1650 Max-Q version, while compared with the vega8 of the previous generation of Ryzen™ 7 5800H, although it did not double the running score, the improvement can be said to be very large.
As a nuclear display, its performance is already very good, and it is not too much of a problem to deal with current online games such as "League of Legends", "Overwatch", "CS:GO" and so on. Today we're going to test whether it's up to some AAA games, and this time I've chosen a few older ones, including Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Tomb Raider: Shadow, and Borderlands 3, as well as a newer Cyberpunk 2077. The first three games all have built-in performance testing options, and we look directly at the results:
Judging from the results, the Ryzen 7 6800H can run these three games relatively smoothly at the lowest or lower quality, and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is relatively laborious, with an average frame rate of less than 60 frames. "Tomb Raider: Shadow" performs better under DX12, and supports Fidelity FX, I tried it under low quality, 80% resolution effect is not obvious, 60% of the frame rate although up, but the decline in picture quality will be more obvious, how to choose or need to weigh it yourself.
Next up was cyberpunk 2077, which had no performance testing options, so I used FRAPS to record frame rates, and instead of choosing the wilderness, I found a scene of buildings in Night City, and then ran, vehicle driving, close-range combat, long-range shooting, and a series of operations that reflected the real gaming experience. Without further ado, let's take a look at the test results:
Since the game has a high performance requirement, I just turned on the dynamic Fidelity FX.
What surprised me was that at 2K resolution, the average frame rate can reach 40, smooth is certainly not said, complex combat scenes will have obvious frame drop and stuttering, but stick to it is also able to play, this performance is better than the MX450 I tested before. 1080P resolution, dynamic Fidelity FX 60%-100% case, although the frame rate does have a very obvious increase, but the quality drop is very obvious, you can take a look at my game screenshots in three settings.
Through some simple tests, it can be seen that the RDNA 2 architecture core display carried by the Ryzen™ 7 6800H does have a very powerful performance, and the AAA games in previous years can basically run smoothly at the lowest or lower quality, and it is not easy to play with a very new masterpiece like "Cyberpunk 2077", after opening fidelity FX.
However, this test is for reference only, there are two main problems, one is that I use the standard pressed version of the Ryzen™ 7 6800H, not mainly used in the thin and light version of the Ryzen™ 7 6800U, although the core and frequency of the two are the same, but the overall power consumption will be different, so the final performance of the low-voltage version may be slightly worse. The second point is that I am using a game book, which will definitely be better than the general thin and light book in terms of heat dissipation, which will also become a major factor affecting performance.
As of now, there has not been a notebook equipped with Ryzen 7 6800U released and listed, it is estimated that it will have to wait until March, we can still hold on to expectations, as for the Ryzen 5 6600U, I personally feel that due to the halving of the core number and the lower frequency, it should be difficult to be competent for AAA games.