AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: performance analysis

We've run our benchmarks at the standard three resolutions: 1080p, 1440p and 4K, but we're focusing the bulk of our attention on those 1080p results, as this is where differences between different CPUs are most visible. (There's an argument for testing at 720p to make these deltas even more visible, but even mainstream PC gaming has long since moved onto 1080p.) We're using an RTX 2080 Ti for these results, so expect larger margins if you're pairing the 5700G with an RTX 3090 (unlikely, we know).

This page is all about FPS. We start with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a game I've dedicated my life to, before moving onto two more recent titles: Rainbow Six Siege and Black Ops Cold War. Rainbow Six Siege is closer to CS:GO, with a focus on competitive action and high frame-rates, while Cold War is one of our RT-enabled benchmarks, as we examine performance in the game's campaign.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Our first test comes from Counter-Strike. This game's Steam Workshop benchmark is not particularly realistic so we've selected a round from the game's 2018 major championship in Boston. The round includes a realistic amount of smoke clouds, grenades and other particle effects that can tank frame-rates plus some downtime, giving us a good chance to see how different CPUs fare under these different scenarios. The 5700G is noticeably worse in this test, barely averaging 246fps while other Ryzen 5000 CPUs are hitting 320 plus, some 30 percent faster. However, it is still faster than Intel's more entry-level offerings, outdoing the 10600K, 11400F and 11600K. It's likely that the cache difference - 16MB of L3 on the 5700G versus 32MB on the 5600X and 5800X - is to blame. 1440p is almost identical in performance, but at 4K the game runs more or less identically on all CPUs we tested.

Rainbow Six: Siege

Rainbow Six Siege is another title that benefits from even frame-pacing and extremely high frame-rates. There's not much in it here - even with the graphics set to the low preset, with a 100 percent render scale rather than the default 50 percent - the 5700G is within around 10 percent of its Ryzen 5000 brethren and half that for its closest Intel competitors at 1080p, narrowing slightly at 1440p.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Our final FPS on this page is the latest Call of Duty, Black Ops Cold War. Here, the focus is less on competitive performance and more on the single-player side of things, as we enable ray tracing and travel virtually to Vietnam in the mission Fracture Jaw. Interestingly, this part of the singleplayer campaign actually has RT disabled on consoles, even when the option is enabled elsewhere in the game, suggesting that the BVH building process here is particularly tough. The opening scene, as Bell joins Adler on the fields of Vietnam, is heavy on the CPU at the relatively low graphical settings we've chosen, even with the RTX 2080 Ti as our GPU. The 5700G performs exactly in line with the 5600X here, as the increase in core count makes up for the lack of cache. This is more the performance we hoped to see from the 5700G, but the cheap 11400F manages to do just as well.

We conclude our CPU tests on the next page, where we take on Cyberpunk 2077 and two returning favourites: Far Cry 5 and DF favourite Crysis 3.

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G analysis

• Introduction, hardware breakdown, test system
• Gaming benchmarks: Hitman 3, Total War Three Kingdoms
• Gaming benchmarks: CS:GO, Rainbow Six Siege, Black Ops Cold War [This Page]
• Gaming benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077, Far Cry 5, Crysis 3
• Gaming benchmarks: Memory bandwidth analysis
• Gaming benchmarks: Integrated graphics
• AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: the Digital Foundry verdict