What about business desktop AMD and Intel platforms?
Personal PC has become an important tool to build the entire digital world and promote the digital transformation of enterprises, as an important classification of the PC market, commercial computers are the necessary IT equipment for modern enterprises. Once upon a time, in the field of commercial PCs, Intel occupied an absolute dominant position, but in recent years AMD (Chaowei) has emerged, with a revolutionary ZEN architecture and a leading 7nm process, Ryzen processors have returned to the mainstream market, and in the SI\OEM market, the Ryzen 4000G series APUs integrating Radeon graphics cards have won the recognition of many customers with their excellent energy efficiency, so that the majority of ordinary users and DIY players have strongly demanded that AMD open retail.
Last year, the Ryzen™s 5000G series APUs based on the ZEN3 architecture were finally opened to the retail market, with stronger multi-core performance improvements, better graphics card performance, and good support for 400/500 series motherboards, which attracted a vote of users to cheer, and continued to be favored by customers in the commercial PC market.
Lenovo's latest ThinkCentre M600t is a high-performance commercial split COMPUTER based on AMD Ryzen™s 5000G series APUs, which adopts a waterfall design and a black tower chassis with a volume of only 17 liters. The top-mounted handle design makes it easy to lift the main unit with one hand, and the front panel of the chassis has USB 3.2 Type A and USB Type-C ports.
Why is the Ryzen™ APU widely recognized and welcomed? Today, we use another business desktop built on Intel's 11th generation Core platform, the Vostro 3890 from Dell, to bring you the specific performance of these two commercial PCs in some typical business scenarios to find answers.
The Ryzen™ 5 5600G performs well ahead of the i5-11400 across the board
First, let's take a look at the theoretical performance of these two processors.
Lenovo ThinkCentre M600t equipped with integrated Radeon graphics AMD Ryzen™ 5600G processor, is a new generation of Ryzen APU, based on ZEN 3 architecture, using 7nm advanced process technology, 6 core 12 thread design, basic frequency 3.9GHz, acceleration frequency up to 4.4GHz, L3 cache 16MB, TDP of 65W.
The Core i5-11400 is the mid-range model in Intel's 11th generation desktop Core, codenamed Rocket Lake, using a 14nm process process, based on the Cypress Cove architecture, is also a 6-core 12-thread design, the basic frequency is only 2.6GHz, the highest turbo frequency is also 4.4GHz, the three-level cache 12MB is a little smaller than the Ryzen 5600G, and the TDP is also 65W.
First of all, in the CPU-Z benchmark test, the Ryzen R5 5600G has a single-core score of 612, a multi-core score of 4788 points, a significant lead over the i5-11400, and a multi-core score of 24.5%, and the TDP of the same 65W shows the excellent energy efficiency of the Ryzen™ 5600G.
In the classic CINEBENCH R15 test, the Ryzen™ 5 5600G has a single-core score of 234cb, a multi-core score of 1759cb, and an MP Ratio of up to 7.51x, which is very good at multi-core efficiency.
The i5-11400 has a single-core score of 214cb and a multi-core score of 1214cb. The Ryzen™ 5 5600G has gained a significant lead in both single-core and multi-core performance, with 54% higher multi-core performance and already leveling the i5-11600K with a power consumption of 125W.
In the WinRAR decompression benchmark performance test, the average processing speed of the Ryzen 5 5600G is 23276KB/s, which is nearly 100% leading compared with the 11859KB/s of the i5-11400, which can obtain faster speed and shorten the decompression time when decompressing a large number of files and large files.
In the X264 Benchmark coding test, the average frame rate of the Ryzen 5 5600G is 55.65fps, and the encoding time is 44 seconds; the average frame rate of the i5-11400 is 37.5fps, and the encoding time is 67 seconds, and the Ryzen APU has obvious advantages in terms of encoding frame rate and time consumed.
In terms of graphics performance, as a new member of the Ryzen APU family, the Ryzen 5 5600G integrates a stronger Radeon Graphics display chip, using a Vega 7 display core, with 448 rendering units, a core frequency of up to 1900MHz, using the PCIe 3.0 bus, the bandwidth reaches 51.2GB/s, and the book parameters have not entered the gate-level discrete graphics card.
The Core i5-11400 integrates a core graphics card with a model OFHD Graphics 730, but it is only equipped with 32 EU units, a bandwidth of only 23.4GB/s, and a maximum dynamic frequency of 1300MHz for the graphics card.
In the graphics performance test of 3DMARK 11, the Ryzen 5600G scored 6592 points in P (Performance) mode, which is close to the GeForce MX450 discrete graphics card, while the performance of UHD Graphics 730 is relatively average, only more than two thousand points, and the performance gap between the two is still very obvious.
In terms of the comprehensive performance of the whole machine, we use PCMark 10 to carry out, of course, this test is not only the processor, but also related to the hard disk, memory, heat dissipation and other aspects. The Lenovo ThinkCentre M600t scored as high as 6607 in the test, with basic functionality and productivity scores exceeding 10,000 points, and the overall performance is comparable to that of a professional-grade PC. The Dell Vostro 3890 has a good overall score of 4621 points, but it has significant shortcomings in productivity performance and digital content creation, which is about 35% short of the ThinkCentre M600t.
Mainstream commercial scenario loads Ryzen™ APU has higher performance
As a computer for the commercial market, efficiency is critical. Next, we use several typical load tests of how the Ryzen™ 5000G APUs and the 11th-generation Core i5 perform in some common scenarios.
The first was the browser performance test for WebXPRT 4, which we tested on both computers using the EDGE browser (Chromium version 99.0) and included six typical loads such as photo enhancement, collation of photo albums using artificial intelligence, stock option pricing, Wasm-based encrypted notes and OCR scans, sales charts, and online jobs.
The results showed that the Ryzen™ 5600G received a higher score with a shorter time consuming time, with a 217 score slightly ahead of the Core i5-11400's 195 points, about 11%.
Next up is cross-platform benchmarking software developed by BAPCo to measure overall system performance and system responsiveness based on an application model in use, with more reference value. The software focuses on testing the productivity, creativity and responsiveness of the whole machine, covering document editing, web browsing, image editing, video editing, program startup, multitasking and other performance under load.
The test results show that the Ryzen 5 5600G has achieved an overall lead in these three parts of the test, compared with the i5-11400 at most 29%, the overall performance of the lead of 14%.
Finally, let's test it using the UL Procyon tool. This is a new test suite, different from PCMark 10, this software is more loaded, the application is more targeted, including office productivity benchmark performance test, photo editing benchmark and video editing benchmark three scenarios, covering typical business office, creative design and other application scenarios, to "response time" to determine the score, closer to the user's actual experience, has a good reference significance.
In the three scenarios of UL Procyon, the Ryzen™ 5 5600G has achieved a comprehensive lead, whether it is office productivity, or video editing performance, it has shown strong strength, especially video editing performance, thanks to stronger processor performance and graphics performance, the score of 2133 points is 120% higher than the 960 points of the i5-11400.
Unfortunately, in the photo editing benchmark, after many attempts, both machines failed the test, thinkCentre M600t error reporting reason is that the implementation of face detection "face detected" failed, Vostro 3890 error is in the application of the filter "gpu image size" error, so the test of both machines did not score.
From the above tests, the ThinkCentre M600t commercial desktop computer based on AMD Ryzen's 5000G APU platform performs better than the 11th-generation Core i5-11400 platform.
Of course, the Dell Vostro 3890 as a comparison is not the latest 12th generation Core desktop platform, but considering the product release time, the Ryzen 5600G and i5-11400 are both listed in 2021, so in terms of OEM customer product rhythm, it may be more suitable for comparison. As for the 12th generation Core, it must be handed over to the Ryzen 6000 series products to align.
As one of the important categories of the PC market, commercial desktops are undoubtedly a market segment that manufacturers attach great importance to. However, in the traditional impression of users, the performance of commercial desktops is not outstanding, and the price is more expensive, but the Ryzen 5000 APU allows us to see the performance of high-performance DIY hosts, and because of the integration of Radeon graphics cards, in the current market environment of exclusive premium, the control of the cost of the whole machine is of great benefit. Lenovo ThinkCentre M600t is an excellent representative of this, which has higher performance in typical business scenarios. Compared with the business desktop based on intel processor platform, it has higher performance at a similar price, which is of course a better choice for customers.