AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: performance analysis

As we mentioned earlier, these results are all with 3600MHz CL16 RAM and a 240mm AiO water cooler in place. If you pair one of these CPUs with slower RAM or weaker cooling, then you are likely to see slightly worse performance - see page five for a look at RAM scaling works.

In these tests, we'll examine how the 5700G compares in Cyberpunk 2077 with RT enabled, single-core-heavy Far Cry 5 and DF staple Crysis 3. We've opted for highly repeatable scenes here from a variety of sources here - an in-game cutscene, a brief open gameplay segment along a fixed route and an in-game benchmark.

Remember that you can mouse over the results in the tables below (as long as you're using a desktop browser rather than a phone) to get dynamically generated performance readouts for all processors we've tested. Meanwhile, clicking the graph swaps you into percentages, making it a bit easier to judge relative performance at a glance.

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is our second RT benchmark, with a short motorcycle run through the city showing how RT performance can add even more load to the CPU and cause CPU bottlenecking in some scenarios. The 5700G is behind the pace here, just hitting 60fps while ever other CPU we've tested is at least 10 percent faster. Note that worst one percent times are at least comparable between the 5700G and 5600X, so you're not looking at larger dips for the 5700G in CP2077 as we saw in other games. At 1440p, only the Intel CPUs are notably better, and the differences are gone entirely at 4K as the GPU becomes the bottleneck once again.

Far Cry 5

Far Cry 5 is the first 'classic' CPU bench in this review, so you'll notice we have far more CPUs in our database. That means I'm able to tell you that the 5700G performs just a hair better than a Ryzen 3000 XT part, such as the 3800XT or 3900XT, rather than a Ryzen 5000 part. The 138fps average isn't bad, but that's not quite maxing out a 144Hz monitor while Ryzen 5000 is able to confidently max out a 165Hz monitor from the 5800X and up. The 5700G also struggles with its worst one percent frame-times, with frame-time spikes that are noticeably worse than its compatriots especially at 1440p and 4K.

Crysis 3

Crysis 3 is a game that scales well with additional cores, so it could be a good opportunity for the 5700G to strike back against the 5600X. Unfortunately, the lack of cache seems to be really hurting the 5700G, with the 5600X recording an average result that is 12 percent higher at 1080p. The 5700G is at least faster than Ryzen 3000 CPUs, but the advantage is just a few percentage points. We see the same poor worst one percent scores at 1440p, but basically every CPU behaves identically at 4K.

Now let's move onto something quite interesting - memory bandwidth analysis. What happens when you pair the 5700G with slower RAM than the 3600MHz CL16 set we're using?

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
• Gaming benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077, Far Cry 5, Crysis 3 [This Page]
• Gaming benchmarks: Memory bandwidth analysis
• Gaming benchmarks: Integrated graphics
• AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: the Digital Foundry verdict