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welcome back to harbor unboxed today we're putting down the shiny new second generation rising CPUs for a different kind of CPU comparison during all the commotion last month until quietly released the rest of the Intel Coffey Lake line up and this included five new Pentium processors three of which are standard powered desktop models late last year Intel announced new gold and silver processors under the Pentium and Celeron lines on the desktop these were KB Lake parts with a refresh to name our standard Pentium CPUs are now known as Pentium gold on the desktop and since they started with the cable eighth generation I suppose this means that the Pentium Gold CPUs will include hyper threading for those of you wondering Pentium silver is for Pentium chips found in mobile and low powered devices using the BGA mounting method why Intel found it necessary to further segment they're already heavily segmented product lines well that's anyone's guess but it just makes the already very confusing situation even more confusing for shoppers anyway we now have the coffee-like Pentium Gold models which includes the G 5400 G 5500 and G 5600 these models will only work on the h3 10 B 3 6 th 370 and Zed 370 motherboards the G 5400 comes in at an MSRP of just 64 dollars u.s. making it 15 percent cheaper than the G 5500 while it can't be more than two and a half percent slower it's also 25% cheaper than the G 5600 and can't be more than 5 percent slower so the G 5400 is clearly the best value part that being the case I've decided to pitch it against AMD's best value CPU the rise in 320 200 G the 2200 G is considerably more expensive at $100 u.s. so at over 50 percent more expensive you have to wonder if it's worth buying before that though this video has been sponsored by Wix the website building service that combines advanced technology with beautiful designs to create your perfect website there are tons of professional solutions available through wix's website building tools 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for 4 threads it has more cache and out-of-the-box operates at a similar frequency and I say out of the box because the 20/20 G is an unlocked CPU and therefore can be overclocked for even greater performance it also supports higher frequency memory and perhaps the greatest advantage of all is the integrated GPU whereas the G 5400 packs the pathetic HD graphics 610 the 2200 G is armed with a far more impressive a great GPU however that's not going to be the focus of today's comparison though I will briefly show performance before wrapping things up for this comparison I want to focus on CPU performance so most of the gaming benchmarks will be conducted with a discrete graphics card but rather than use the gtx 1050 or something even slower i'm testing with a gtx 1070 to remove the GPU bottleneck while also remaining somewhat realistic remember last generations flagship GPUs are only equivalent to the current generation mid-range graphics cards so unless you upgrade your CPU every time you buy a new graphics card knowing how these CPUs perform when not GPU limited is very important plus GPU limited testing is just pointless anyway in addition to the gtx 1070 other testing notes worth mentioning include the following the pentium g 5400 was tested on the msi h3 10m pro VT and as the name suggests this is an Intel H 310 motherboard one of the cheapest you can buy therefore we have been forced to use the standard ddr4 2400 memory spec then for the Rison 320 200 G that's been tested on the MSI be 350 mortar using ddr4 3200 memory with this standard XMP loaded then for a second test configuration I've upgraded the Wraith stealth box color to the deep core game at 200 T and overclocked all cores to 3.9 gigahertz okay well I think that covers everything let's get into the results first up we have the sustained memory banth results and here the risin 320 turnigy enjoys 26% more bandwidth both CPUs feature a dual channel memory controller the main difference being the 20 20 G is able to take advantage of ddr4 3200 memory while the G 5400 is limited as a tier 4 2400 or anything but a 370 motherboard here we see when running Cinebench r15 G 5400 is 9 percent faster the stock 2200 g4 single-threaded workloads however because the 20 20 G is a true quad core when it comes to multi-threaded performance it's almost 50% faster then once we overclock for 2200 G it's now 2 percent faster for the single-threaded test and a whopping 56% faster for the multi-threaded test so a true showing of dominance for the horizon 3 processor in this benchmark next up we're going to look at a few of the PC mark 10 tests in fact we'll be looking at four of them and the first one is the application startup performance here we can see it the G 5400 and it's punchy single thread performance does well in this test and it's not until we overclock the 22 energy that it pulls ahead that said stop the 2200 G was just 5% slower so it's not exactly a huge margin the video conferencing test is a lot more demanding on the CPU and here we see these stock 22 energy outpacing the G 5400 by a reasonably large 10% margin then once overclock the 20 20 G is 15% faster that's a fairly commanding lead for the horizon 3 processor the web-browsing test isn't particularly cool heavy so this time the G 5400 is able to hang in there with the 2200 G allowing both CPUs to deliver a similar score photo editing is a bit more tak on the CPU and this allows the stock 2200 G to beat the Pentium processor by an 8 percent margin and then a 15 percent margin once overclocked so overall AMD does do very well in these PC mark 10 benchmarks moving on to the blender test and in this real-world application we see an incredible 49% reduction in render time when moving from the pentium g 5400 to the 2200 g that's very much in line with what we saw in looking at the multi-threaded performance with cinema r15 we do see less of a margin between these two CPUs and the v-ray benchmark but even so the 2200 g was still 33% faster and 37% faster once overclocked the Pentium processor puts forth its best effort yet in a heavily multi-threaded test as here it is just 24 percent slower than the 2200 G when testing with Corona that margin though was extended slightly to 28% once we overclock the 2200 G for compressing and decompressing archives for rising cores are better than two Intel cores with hyper-threading by an almost 40% margin which is very impressive the 2200 G also dominated the G 5400 in our Excel test completing the workload almost 30% faster okay so time for some games and in total I've tested nine titles and we will start with ashes of the singularity everyone's favorite synthetic gaming benchmark this game heavily utilizes the CPU and here we see the 22 energy offering 18% more performance than the G 5400 and almost 30% more once overclocked those are some huge gains right there with the gtx 1070 Assassin's Creed origins as a game that demands at least a quad core and ideally you really want a quad core with SMT or HT support the dual core pentium scrapes by with just 32 FPS for the 1% low result and this meant the rise in CPU is 44% faster with 46 fps overclocking led to bigger gains in this title and here the 22 energy was almost 70 percent faster than the G 5400 once overclocked although we can only accurately benchmark the single-player portion of battlefield 1 we see the 22 energy is still being very well utilized as it delivered 34% more performance than the G 5400 when comparing the one percent low results that margin was blown out to 53% once the 2200 G was overclocked also note that the game ran noticeably smoother on the horizon three CPU Counter Strike global Offensive isn't the kind of game I was expecting to really favor the rise in three CPU but here we see the 2200 G delivering 31% more frames on average and 32% more once overclocked overclocking didn't really help much in this title but even so the 2200 G was still significantly ahead of the G 5400 although the G 5400 allowed for smooth gameplay in f1 2017 the Rison 322 energy was still significantly faster pushing the 1% low result 25% higher from 64 FPS 280 FPS again we see that CPU overclocking had very little impact in this title far cry 5 is another game where overclocking the 2200 G did a little for the rise in CPU still despite that it was over 30% faster than G 5400 we're looking at the 1% low data here we see that performance in overwatch was very solid using either CPU but the 2200 G was overall 45% fast when comparing the 1% low performance another title that saw both CPUs delivering solid performance was Rainbow six siege but even so the horizon 322 energy continues as winning ways delivering around 15 and 20% more performance in the pentium g 5400 although we can't accurately benchmark vermintide to once things kick off you can expect the 2200 g to be at least 30% faster under heavy load and if anything that margin would only grow so another solid win for AMD in our last gaming title tested before moving on to power consumption oh here's a quick look at integrated graphics performance basically even at 720p you're gonna have a hard time playing anything on the pentium g 5400 without a discrete graphics card meanwhile the 2200 g is very respectable and when overclocked can beat an RX 550 in some titles so if you're going to be making do without a graphics card for any period of time then the horizon 320 200 G is a must okay so now it's time to check out power consumption and remember the pentium g 5400 is a dual-core while the horizon 322 energy is a quad core so you can expect the faster more powerful quad core to consume more power looking at the far cry 5 results we see that that is indeed the case here the 22 energy push total system consumption 29% higher but remember it was 32% fastest on terms of performance per watt the rise in three CPU actually does better the G 5400 does come out on top this time though for efficiency and ashes of the singularity here the 2200 G consume 28% more power but was only 18 percent faster not exactly a noteworthy margin but it does make the rise in three CPU a little less efficient here finally we have the corona benchmark and here the G 5400 system consumed 43 percent less power and here it was 32% slower so again slightly better efficiency from the Pentium CPU but overall still much slower okay so we've now looked at plenty of benchmarks and it's pretty clear arisin 320 200 G watch the floor with the Pentium G 5400 but is it better value well if you're planning on gaming without a discrete graphics card then quite simply yes it's world's better value simply no comparison to be made here gaming with the integrated GPU found in the G 5400 is almost impossible and well at best extremely limited the 22 energy on the other hand can mimic entry-level discrete GPU performance and is therefore workable assuming you plan on purchasing something like a GTX 1050 rx 560 or perhaps something more powerful like what we tested with or you also want to use your budget bill to get into video editing or any other kind of productivity work then which CPU should you get well first let's factor in the platform costs the MSI h3 10m Pro VD which we use to support the Pentium G 5400 costs roughly $52 u.s. and 8 gigabytes of ddr4 2400 memory will set you back about $75 us add those prices to the $64 u.s. you can expect to pay for the pentium g 5400 and you've got a platform bill of $191 us let's just say $190 u.s. pro nice round figure horizon 320 200 G comes in at $100 us you can expect to pay about $70 us for a be 350 board the MSI be 350 mortar that we used comes in at $90 u.s. but that's world's better than the h3 10 board we used in terms of quality and features so let's work with $70 here then for the ddr4 3,200 you'll want to allow for about $100 us for an 8 gigabyte kit this then places the 2200 G combo that we tested at around 270 dollars us and that makes a little over 40% more costly than the Intel build of course if you factor in the cost of a graphics card such as the GTX 1050 then that margin does come down to just over 20% I should note you can also get away with slower memory when using the 2200 G with a graphics card and that will help reduce the overall cost further in any case we had a graphics card the 2200 G as I said earlier is without question worth the price premium a 40 percent increase from $190 us to 270 dollars us is well worth the two hundred and fifty percent increase in performance for games and not to mention you can actually play all the latest games that said if you're not interested in 3d performance but you'll want to tackle heavy tasks like rendering and coding or whatever else then the extra investment is well worth it as the 2200 G was often up to 40% faster and don't try and tell me no one does those tasks on a quad-core CPU because I know they do so in summary the pentium G 5400 really only makes sense if you want to dirt-cheap PC for web browsing consuming media content and firing off the odd email anything more than that investing the extra $80 US on the horizon 320 20 G platform is going to net you significantly more performance and a much better upgrade path in the future and that is going to do it for this one if you enjoyed the video please hit the like button subscribe for more content if you appreciate what we do here at our unbox then consider supporting us on patreon as always thanks for watching I'm your host Steve and I will see you again next time