Onboard Video Performance
For most people, CPU performance is the most important aspect when picking out a processor. But some people do still run without a dedicated GPU so I still take a look at the performance of the integrated GPUs as well. With the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, this has to be the CPU with the lowest chances of its users running its integrated GPU given its gaming focus. To start things off I tested with 3Dmark. I ran tests using the older Fire Strik benchmark, the DX12-based Time Spy, the newer Speedway test, and the latest test Steel Nomad which for that last one I tested using the light version. In Fire Strike, the 9800X3D came in right above the 9700X and 9600X which was a hair below the previous generation of Ryzen CPUs and middle of the pack overall. Time Spy was similar with the 9800X3D sitting between the 7800X3D and 7950X3D. With the newer Speed Way test the two Intel 14th gen CPUs failed the test and the 9800X3D was a few points ahead of the 9700X here as well. The Steel Nomad Light benchmark has the 9800X3D with the other 9000 Series Ryzen CPUs once again and highlights the iGPU performance difference with Intel’s new 200 Series CPUs. Last up in 3Dmark I also tested out AMDs FSR to see how it affects performance here. None of the base frame rates were good at all but you can see where you can double up in performance. For the 9800X3D, that wasn’t enough to make it worthwhile but it did work well with the iGPU-focused 8000G CPUs.
In Unigine Superposition I ran the 1080p medium detail and 720p low detail tests and the Ryzen 7 9800X3D came in a little behind both of the last generation X3D CPUs but in the middle of the pack overall with both the 720p and 1080p results.
With AI being an important metric these days I did slip in a look at the IA performance for the integrated GPU as well using Procyon’s AI Computer Vision Benchmark which tests using a few different neural network models including Yolo v3 which is one of the models we use with our own AI security camera filtering. The 9800X3D was tested against the new Intel Core Ultra CPUs and for those CPUs, I did also test using both the Windows ML test mode as well as OpenVINO which Intel is tuned for. The 9800X3D wasn’t in the same class here with the Windows ML results being well over twice as high for both of the Intel CPUs and even higher with the OpenVINO results.
Then from there on, I jumped into game tests. Some of our tests are older games but I did also add in a few newer games as well to get an idea of newer games when tested at 1080p and low or medium settings. My goal with these tests was to see if base-level gaming at low or medium settings was possible at all. While the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a monster when it comes to gaming with a dedicated GPU, it fell just above the two other 9000 Series Ryzen CPUs when it comes to the integrated GPU being used in games. It is right on the edge of being playable. In the older games, like Tomb Raider, it was able to handle things but overall you are still going to want to have a dedicated video card for any true gaming. I did slip in AMD FSR testing when running F1 22 and interestingly that was enough to edge the performance up into a playable range, going from 27 FPS up to 42 FPS. But in all of the iGPU testing it is clear that if this is your focus, AMDs 8000G Series is still the way to go.
