AMD Ryzen 5 3400G (Zen+ & Vega 11) APU Review

1. Introduction2. Testing Methodology3. CPU Tests: Cinebench R15 & R20, Blender4. CPU & Memory Tests: 7-Zip, Handbrake x2645. Memory Tests: Memory Bandwidth and Latency6. Gaming Tests 1: 3DMark, Deus Ex, Far Cry 5, GTA V7. Gaming Tests 2: GRW, SotTR8. Technical: Power Draw, Temperatures9. Overclocking10. Closing Thoughts11. View All Pages

Cinebench R15

Cinebench R20

Right off the bat, productivity performance in Cinebench looks pretty decent from the four-core, eight-thread chip. Ryzen 5 3400G isn’t too far behind the higher-clocked, more expensive Coffee Lake Core i5 in terms of multi-threaded performance. That’s not bad for an APU to which demanding tasks such as multi-core rendering is only of secondary importance.

Single-thread performance is an area where Intel continues to dominate. This Zen+ APU does not feature the architectural improvements of Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 CPUs, and therefore cannot match their single-thread performance, either. Unsurprisingly, the Ryzen 5 3400G is similar to the Zen Ryzen 7 1800X and Zen+ Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 7 2700X in single-thread performance.

Blender BMW Benchmark

Blender chugs along to a render time of just over 9 minutes. That’s not too shabby a result for an entry-level APU, and it is fairly competitive against the more expensive, but notably faster, Coffee Lake Core i5 six-core.

There’s no reason why you can’t use the APU to run the odd multi-core render here and there.

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