AMD Ryzen 3 3200G + Vega 8 Review

We’ve been pleasantly surprised with the turnout of AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series and the introduction of the RX 5000 series. Things are looking great for the Red Team, and we’re eager to see what the company is going to bring to the table soon. For today however, we’re going to take a look at the AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega 8 Graphics just because we want to see if we can also settle for thinned out budget PC as a workhorse and a light gaming machine.

We’ve been pleasantly surprised with the turnout of AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series and the introduction of the RX 5000 series. Things are looking great for the Red Team, and we’re eager to see what the company is going to bring to the table soon. For today however, we’re going to take a look at the AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega 8 Graphics just because we want to see if we can also settle for thinned out budget PC as a workhorse and a light gaming machine.

PERFORMANCE

TEST SYSTEM SETUP

Motherboard: GIGABYTE AB350M-DH3

CPU: AMD RYZEN 3 1600 3200G

GPU: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

RAM: ZADAK 16GB DDR4 RAM 2400 MHz

Cooler: Noctua NH-U12A

Storage: Plextor M9e 512GB M.2 SSD + Seagate BarraCuda 4TB + 2TB Western Digital Green HDD

PSU: Corsair RM750 750 Watt 80 PLUS Gold Certified Fully Modular PSU

Case: Silverstone RL06

OS: Windows 10 Pro N

Display: ViewSonic VX2758 144Hz Monitor

CINEBENCH

MAXON's CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that tests out a computer's performance capabilities. The Cinebench Release 20 features overall advancements to CPU and rendering technology in recent years for a more accurate measurement of Cinema 4D’s ability to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and modern processor features available to the average user.

3DMark Time Spy

3DMark Time Spy is a DirectX 12 benchmark test for Windows 10 gaming PCs. Time Spy is one of the first DirectX 12 apps to be built the right way from the ground up to fully realize the performance gains that the new API offers. With its Extreme counterpart rendering visuals in 4K.

3DMark Firestrike

Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark for modern gaming PCs. Its ambitious real-time graphics are rendered with detail and complexity far beyond other DirectX 11 benchmarks and games. With Extreme and Ultra versions raising resolution in 25650 x 1440 and 4K.

Final Fantasy XV

Final Fantasy XV from Square Enix is one of the most graphically intensive games to date, offering rich details and beautiful visuals to boot. Our test run involves a run on the great wilderness from Hammerhead to the road ahead.

Settings:

Framerate: 120fps

Resolution: 100%

Preset: Highest

Assets: On

Model LOD: High

TRAM: Highest

Anisotropic Filtering: High

Geomapping: On

Lighting: High

Shadows: Highest

Ambient Occlusion: High

Anti-aliasing: TAA

Motion Blur: On

Filtering: Highest

NVIDIA Hairworks: Off

NVIDIA VXAO: Off

NVIDIA TurfEffects: Off

NVIDIA ShadowLibs: Off

The Witcher 3

The Witcher 3 despite its age is still one of the most demanding titles as it holds up graphically. Our test is done on Mulbrydale.

Settings:

VSync: Off

FPS: Unlimited

NVIDIA Hairworks: Off

Number of Background Characters: Ultra

Shadow Quality: Ultra

Terrain Quality: Ultra

Water Quality: Ultra

Grass Density: Ultra

Texture Quality: Ultra

Foliage Visibility Range: Ultra

Detail Level: Ultra

Ambient Occlusion: SSAO

Depth of Field: On

Chromatic Abberation: On

Vignetting: On

Light Shafts: On

DOOM (2016)

Ahhh, DOOM. One of the progenitors of the FPS genre. The 2016 reboot features Vulkan for one of its APIs, and we'll use this one to test it out. Run and gun.

Settings:

Graphics API: Vulkan

Overall Quality: Ultra

Resolution Scale: 100%

Anti-aliasing: SMAA

FOV: 90

Lights Quality: Ultra

Shadows Quality: Ultra

Directional Occlusion Quality: High

Decal Quality: Ultra

Decal Filtering: Anisotropic 8x

Virtual Texturing Page Size: Ultra

Reflections Quality: Ultra

Particles Quality: Ultra

Depth of Field: On

Depth of Field Quality: Ultra

Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers

The Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers official benchmark tool uses actual maps and playable characters to assign a score to your PC and rate its performance. A character creation tool is also included, allowing you to view a playable character as they will appear in-game.

Settings:

Graphics Settings: Maximum Preset

Real-time Reflections: Maximum

Anti-aliasing: FXAA

Transparent Lighting Quality: High

Grass Quality: High

Parallax Occlusion: High

Tessellation: High

Glare: Standard

Texture Filtering: Anisotropic x16

Metro Last Light Redux Benchmark Tool

Metro Last Light Redux features a built in benchmarking tool that can simulate on multiple passes and comes with detailed sequences.

Settings:

Quality: Very High

SSAA: On

Texture Filtering: AF 16X

Motion Blur: Off

Tesselation: Very High

VSync: Off

Advanced PhysX: Off

Runs: 3

Temperature

For the temperature, we look for the average on a 30-minute idle state and load temperatures are tracked during 3DMark's Time Spy stress test for the same duration. The test system is under a 30C ambient room temperature, and unit is in Celsius.

Power Consumption

Our power consumption test is done alongside our temperature test. Temperatures are recorded using a wattmeter, and measured is the overall system power consumption.

CONCLUSION

The AMD Ryzen 3 3200G currently retails for around Php5,350, and it's also important to note that some retailers would require you to purchase it with a motherboard for the listed price. That's another story. Moving forward, let’s talk about performance. We tested solely with the integrated graphics since that is mostly going to be the use case for anyone looking into it. It's unfortunate that SMT isn't on the cards, given that even Athlon APUs have them. But still, performance is quite acceptable, and given that we push every possible setting to the maximum, you could work well with tweaking some of it to achieve great results. It will also work wonders on emulators if you're going for an SFF machine for that.