In addition to home and server applications, computers also have a major application direction is daily personal office, work use, from the most common browser applications to graphics, picture editing, table and document processing, video transcoding, graphic rendering, etc., such as in professional terms, can also be called commercial applications. From the user's point of view, it is clear that they will be very concerned about the performance of the computer in commercial applications, after all, the better the performance, the more efficient the employee to complete the work. To improve the efficiency of commercial applications, the "heart" of the computer: the processor is crucial, so which type of processor is more suitable for commercial applications, AMD or Intel? Next, let's test to come up with the answer.
Status analysis of mainstream commercial computers
The Lenovo ThinkCentre M600t business PC not only has AMD's latest Ryzen™ 5000G Series APUs built in, but also has a grid-style panel dust cover, a top-mounted chassis handle, and a commercially optimized design that can accommodate multiple safety locks.
For most of the commercial users who are mainly office applications, due to the need to improve stability and obtain high-quality after-sales service, such users generally directly purchase brand computers. In view of the fact that common office applications do not require the use of high-performance discrete graphics cards, the price of mainstream commercial computers is relatively cheap, mostly around 4,000 yuan. Considering that the number of mainstream computers has the largest number of users, we will test two mainstream commercial computers priced at 3999 yuan this time. One of them is the ThinkCentre M600t business computer from Lenovo, which previously mainly used APU based on AMD Zen 2 and Zen architecture, and now the M600t is replaced by AMD's latest Ryzen 5000G series APU.
The Ryzen 5000G Series APUs feature a Zen 3 processor architecture with 19% IPC performance and are built by an advanced TSMC 7nm production process. The M600t business PC in this test uses a 6-core, 12-thread design amD Ryzen™ 5600G APU with a maximum acceleration frequency of 4.4GHz, equipped with 16MB L3 cache, integrated with a large Vega 7 display core, and built-in 448 stream processors. The TDP thermal design of this APU consumes only 65 watts of power. In addition, the M600t business PC is equipped with 16GB of DDR4 3200 dual-channel memory, 512GB NVMe SSD, and a commercially optimized design with a grid-style panel dust cover, top-mounted chassis handle, and multiple safety locks.
Intel's 11th Generation Core Processor: Core i5-11400 is also used in commercial computers.
In terms of comparison machines, we used a business PC with an equal price point, equipped with 16GB dual-channel DDR4 memory, based on the Intel Core i5-11400. The Core i5-11400 belongs to Intel's 11th generation Core processor, which also uses a 6-core, 12-thread design, the highest turbo frequency of 4.4GHz, built by Intel 14nm+++ process, and internally replaced by a new Cyprus Cove processor architecture. Cypress Cove inherits all of Sunny Cove's benefits, including support for important technical features such as the AVX-512 instruction set, resulting in an overall IPC improvement of approximately 19% over its predecessor. At the same time, the Core i5-11400 has built-in core graphics model UHD Graphics 730, but Intel has drastically reduced the size of the display core, only equipped with 24 EU units, and its TDP is also 65W.
Full machine testing for commercial applications: PCMark 10 and CrossMark
Ryzen™ 5 5600G PCMark 10 test score details.
Core i5-11400 PCMark 10 test score details
We first conducted PCMark 10 machine tests that can simulate video conferencing, web browsing, spreadsheet calculations, document processing, photo editing, graphic rendering, video editing, all common commercial applications. The results were completely unexpected, with a stronger processor core and a significantly leading display core, the THINKCentre M600t business computer based on the AMD Ryzen™ 5600G not only led the overall test score, but also led the score in each test section, because it has faster processing speed.
For example, when the spreadsheet calculation is accelerated through GPU acceleration of Monte Carlo and energy market calculations, the AMD Ryzen™ 5600G only needs 1.584s and 0.439s to complete the task, respectively, while the Core i5-11400 requires 107.318s and 25.687s to complete the calculation, respectively, and the gap between the two is very large. When doing local contrast processing in image editing tests, the AMD Ryzen™ 5600G takes just 8.737s, while the Core i5-11400 requires 25.269s. In terms of the overall performance of the two processors in pcmark 10, the AMD Ryzen™ 5600G is 33% ahead of the Core i5-11400 in commercial applications.
Ryzen™ 5 5600G CrossMark test score details.
Core i5-11400 CrossMark test score details.
We also run another major specialized commercial test software, CrossMark from BAPCo. CrossMark is the only test software on the market that can support the performance evaluation and comparison of different hardware and software platforms and different operating systems. The software will focus on testing the productivity, creativity and responsiveness of the whole machine. Among them, the productivity test examines the document editing, table processing, and web browsing performance of the whole machine; creativity examines the image editing, picture organization, and video editing performance of the whole machine; and the responsiveness tests the performance of the whole machine when the program starts, opens files, and multi-task work. The test results show that although the gap between the two processors in this test is not as large as pcmark 10, the Ryzen 5600G still has a comprehensive lead in these three parts of the test, and its final overall performance is also about 3.7% ahead of the Core i5-11400.
Browser Performance Test: WebXPRT 4
Ryzen™ 5 5600G WebXPRT 4 test score details.
Core i5-11400 WebXPRT 4 test score details.
Next, we tested the performance of the two processors in various application areas through a professional single test. First we tested the browser performance of both processors using WebXPRT 4. The test will be done through Microsoft's Edge browser in six parts: photo enhancement, collation of photo albums using artificial intelligence, stock option pricing, Wasm-based encrypted notes and OCR scanning, sales charts, and online assignments. Similarly, the less time it takes all the work, the higher the rating that the processor can get, and the Ryzen 5 5600G eventually gets a higher score with a shorter time, winning the Core i5-11400 in the test, leading by 4.3%.
Video Transcoding Performance Test: Format Factory
In video transcoding, both the Ryzen 5 5600G and Core i5-11400 have GPU-accelerated transcoding enabled.
Video transcoding is also a common work in commercial applications, with the help of video transcoding support for hardware is getting better and better, now many transcoding software can be very good at the same time to mobilize the processor and display core to perform transcoding work at the same time, thereby effectively improving work efficiency, such as the domestic "Format Factory" software. In this test, we will transcode an H.264 encoded 4K video clip to H.265 encoding and 1080p resolution. The results are surprising, with a stronger processor and built-in display core performance, the Ryzen™ 5600G performance is much stronger, only 9 seconds to complete the video transcoding, while the Core i5-11400 takes 14 seconds to complete the transcoding, that is to say, the transcoding time is 55% more. When there is a lot of video to transcode, using the Ryzen 5 5600G can obviously effectively improve work efficiency.
Compression and decompression test: 7-ZIP
Ryzen™ 5 5600G 7-ZIP test score details.
Core i5-11400 7-ZIP test score details.
No matter what kind of work we are engaged in, we often need to decompress or compress files and materials, and for some office business-heavy positions (such as secretarial, new media editing, creative design, etc.), decompressing or compressing dozens of gb of data and photos may be the norm. So we also went through the 7-Zip software to see how the two machines performed in terms of compression and decompression. Judging from the test results, there is a very large gap between the compression and decompression performance of the two processors. Ryzen™ 5 5600G leads the Core i5-11400 by 40.7%, in fact, AMD processors have always had obvious advantages in compression and decompression performance, and most of the products can beat their competitors in this test.
Rendering performance testing: BLENDER and Corona 1.3 Benchmark
In 3D design studios, although most of the working computers of ordinary employees are not used to render the final product of the output (usually carried out on the rendering farm), it is still possible to render a preview version with low resolution and accuracy requirements at the design stage for analysis and discussion. So, for this kind of need, we first render a BMW car model through the common BLENDER 3D design software. From the results, although the two processors are both 6 cores, 12 threads design, the maximum acceleration frequency is also 4.4GHz, but obviously the Ryzen 5600G Zen 3 architecture is better than the Core i5-11400 Cycle Cove architecture, its rendering time is only 233.11s, while the Core i5-11400 time is 322.08s, which is 38.2% more than the Ryzen 5600G.
Similar results were also found in the Corona 1.3 Benchmark test using the Corona renderer, which will render a BTR armored vehicle scene, with the Ryzen 5 5600G requiring only 129s to render and the Core i5-11400 requiring 174s, which took 34.9% longer.
Encryption and decryption performance test: TrueCrypt
In production and operation, enterprise companies will produce a lot of data and materials that need to be kept confidential, and encrypting or decrypting various types of files through AES encryption technology is also a common application in companies. That's why we also tested the encryption and decryption performance of both processors with TrueCrypt 7.2 in particular. The results are also like other tests, the Ryzen™ 5600G defeated the Core i5-11400 with a clear advantage, and its encryption and decryption performance reached 10.4GB/s, while the Core i5-11400's encryption and decryption performance was only 5.9GB/s, and the Ryzen 5600G led by 76.3%, with faster encryption and decryption speed.
AMD processors are better suited for commercial applications
Through the testing of the above eight projects, it is clear that the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G APU has achieved an all-round lead over the Core i5-11400 processor, whether it is in the PCMark 10 and CrossMark machine tests that include multiple applications, or in the browser, video transcoding, compression and decompression, graphics rendering, encryption and decryption. The fundamental reason is that the use of Zen 3 architecture allows the Ryzen 5600G APU to have better processor performance, and the integration of the large-scale Vega 7 display core also makes the graphics performance of the Ryzen 5600G APU and the GPU general computing performance far stronger than the core graphics such as Intel UHD Graphics 730.
At the same time, from the price point of view, the current use of these two types of processors of the brand machine price is very close, so if the enterprise company and other commercial users want to improve the work efficiency of employees, want to make the purchased office equipment more cost-effective, then the use of like Lenovo ThinkCentre M600t based on AMD Ryzen™ 5000 series APU commercial computers is a better choice.