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what's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're doing well today we are finally taking a look at the gaming benchmarks for our AMD risin AP use we've got the rise in 320 200 G for core 4 thread part and the horizon 520 400 G for core 8 thread parts both of which we unboxed last week you guys probably caught that and here we are going to test the gaming performance so very exciting stuff now obviously I could test the risin 5 and 3 chips independently but I'm sure there are a lot of reviewers on YouTube and elsewhere that are already already gonna do that so if you guys want I'll put some links in the description below where you can check those guys out and show them some love tell'em essentia but today what I'm going to do is actually test the Rison 520 400 G against the Rison 3 paired with a GT 1030 the reason for that being these two components are pretty much about the same price as a single Rison 520 400 G maybe 1015 dollars more expensive depending on where you look but both of these could be a viable option if you're looking for a low-power gaming solution especially with GPU prices where they are right now so that's what we're gonna take a look at today can the can the integrated graphics on the Rison 520 400 G beat out or at least match a GT 1030 which is of course a discrete card it'll be interesting to find out you can see I've actually got our test bench right here in front of me which also goes to show just how small you can get these apu systems down to we've got to of course our rise in AP use at the center of it all being cooled by the included Wraith spire and that is on top of an AV 350 n gaming Wi-Fi motherboard from gigabyte fantastic little mini ITX board we've got 16 gigs of g.skill ripjaws 5 ddr4 at 3200 megahertz i was able to get that rated speed on both of our hardware configurations here so that was fantastic had to do that with was able to do that with very minimal effort and we've also got our boot drive and all of our games loaded onto an ADATA SX 900 SSD that's a 512 gigabyte model and that is all being powered by an SFX unit from Corsair they're 450 watt power supply right there so altogether a very lovely little testbed we're using all the latest drivers and and the BIOS updates from AMD themselves these are all the pre-release drivers and updates that they gave us viewers just before launch that being said you should also bear in mind that the drivers for the GT 1030 particularly are much more optimized at this point I mean this card's been out for a while now so this definitely has more of a softwear advantage compared to these new ap use but rest assured and I've reached out to AMD about this is that as time goes on as always they're gonna be releasing new BIOS updates and drivers and things like that to continue optimizing and improving upon the performance and stability of these chips so that's great news so bear that in mind as we go into our testing here I'm also using the latest updates for Windows which is 1709 at the time of filming and of course the latest wickel drivers were used for the GT 1030 here I'd also like to point out that most of the games that we're testing today were run at 1920 by 1080 there were a couple that just maxed out the vram for our APU here so we had to bump that down to 1280 by 720 those will be indicated or that will be indicated on the benchmarks slide so you know which ones were tested at which resolutions that being said ladies and gentlemen let's get onto the benchmarks themselves and test out these two hardware configurations to see which one reigned supreme alright so there you guys have it some pretty interesting results for starters I have to hand it to AMD they have made one hell of an APU I mean this pretty much blows every integrated graphic solution that Intel's ever thrown at us out of the water hands down at the same time I was experiencing as you guys could probably tell from the graphs some frame time issues with our APU here particularly the horizon 520 400g when it was using the integrated Vega graphics there were some frame time spikes in a few of the games that that that are a little bit concerning especially games like you know counter-strike and rocket League which are very easy to run we're still experiencing a little bit of stuttering here and there which made the overall experience in those particular titles slightly less than ideal which makes it hard to recommend over this setup at the moment because the GT 1030 was pretty smooth sailin I mean there was hardly any stuttering maybe in one of the games that we saw but for the most part the overall experience was smoother on the GT 1030 paired with the Rison 320 200 G of course going back to what I said at the beginning of the video these are very early and premature drivers that we're gonna have to wait a while for AMD to iterate or maybe we won't have to wait too long it could be in a week or so that they release a new BIOS update or a GPU driver that fixes some of these stuttering issues that I'm encountering today also I should for the records say that go watch other people's reviews because they might not have experienced the same sort of artifacts or issues or stuttering that I'm seeing here so it's always good to sort of spread out who you're watching and and checking you double check your reviews now that being said once AMD irons out any issues with stuttering assuming that there are stuttering issues that go beyond just my own testing this becomes an incredibly good value at 169 US dollars this thing is very capable I mean it pretty much holds a candle to the GT 1030 which is a discrete GPU and it's gonna make a fantastic stopgap temporary gaming rig solution for those of you who can't afford to pay an outrageous amount for a new GPU so if you're waiting for the prices to drop down this is definitely a decent option not to mention it's gonna be great for eSports games like I would imagine dota 2 and League legends even though I didn't test those today the fact that it's performing very well in average frame rates for games like counter-strike and at rocket league is it shows great promise now speaking realistically there's only so much an APU can do with its integrated graphics solution so you're pretty much gonna have to compromise with console like graphics for the most part until you get a discrete GPU in there but at the same time there are so many other features about PC gaming that you can still enjoy with an APU for example PC exclusive titles or how about an uncapped framerate having access to in-game quality settings and really the list goes on keyboard and mouse integration and so forth so overall this thing is friggin awesome and the fact that it's mostly keeping pace with the GT 1030 is absolutely fantastic but bear in mind since you don't have a discrete GPU you're getting less power you're drawing less power which is generating less heat which requires a less beefy cooling solution and in turn is gonna equate to less noise if you don't actually need active cooling part from the CPU cooler itself which most systems generally need so overall I'm very happy with this chip you guys let me know what you think the only question I that I haven't answered yet is does it scratch your overclocking itch which is of course a question we'll have to answer in a later video but guys if you enjoyed this video or first off let me know what you think of these ap use what you think of the results so far and and again like I said go ahead and watch other reviewers and check out their results as well let me know what you think in the comments guys I'm always curious to hear your thoughts toss a like on the video if you enjoyed it you can also check out more of my content on floatplane if you want to watch it up to a week early without ads I'll put a link for that in the video description till next time guys thanks for watching and I'll see y'all in the next day