We praised the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G back then on our review. Amazing us with its performance as an 8-core APU under $200 USD – truly an excellent chip for its worth. Now what we have here is the AMD Ryzen 3 2200G APU. A 4 core, 4 thread CPU with the Radeon RX Vega 8 graphics inside.
The AMD Ryzen 3 2200G is slated to feature a $99 USD SRP. This puts the Ryzen 3 2200G just below the Intel Core i3-8100 when it comes to pricing. But, it is technically ahead when it comes to integrated graphics performance. We do not have an actual Core i3-8100 here but we got the data from the Ryzen 5 2400G to compare with the Ryzen 3 2200G. That said, let us check out what the APU got in store for us.
Product Lin2 | Model | Cores | Threads | Base Clock (GHz) | Boost Clock (GHz) | iGPU | TDP(Watts) |
Ryzen 7 | 1800X | 8 | 16 | 3.6 | 4.0 | – | 95 |
Ryzen 7 | 1700X | 8 | 16 | 3.4 | 3.8 | – | 95 |
Ryzen 5 | 1600X | 6 | 12 | 3.6 | 4.0 | – | 95 |
Ryzen 5 | 1500X | 4 | 8 | 3.5 | 3.7 | – | 65 |
Ryzen 5 | 2400G | 4 | 8 | 3.6 | 3.9 | Radeon RX Vega 11 | 65 |
Ryzen 3 | 2200G | 4 | 4 | 3.5 | 3.7 | Radeon RX Vega 8 | 65 |
Ryzen 3 | 1300X | 4 | 4 | 3.5 | 3.7 | – | 65 |
Ryzen 3 | 1200X | 4 | 4 | 3.1 | 3.4 | – | 65 |
Table of Contents
Power
System power consumption is evaluated during idle and a 15-minute load via the AIDA64 System Stability Test. Power readings are recorded with a watt-meter.
Temperature
The AIDA64 System Stability Test is also used to evaluate the system thermals. Readings are taken with AIDA64 and is cross-referenced with HWiNFO.
Power figure is comparable to the Ryzen 5 2400G, while temperatures are a few digits lower. The highest power figure we got with the APU alone is at 98.9W.
Arithmethic
Super PI is a single-threaded program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point. It is a widely used benchmark and stress test within the industry.
WPrime is a multi-threaded program that calculates a set number of square roots for estimating functions. It verifies the results by squaring them, then compares it with the original numbers.
Memory
The AIDA64 Memory Benchmark measure the data transfer bandwidth and latency of the system memory. On this benchmark, we are measuring the memory kit’s latency.
The Ryzen 3 2200G outputted an interesting performance. It is faster than the Ryzen 3 1300X on our multi-threaded benchmark but the same cannot be said on the single-threaded benchmark. Memory latency is the fastest we’ve recorded so far though.
Productivity
GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a free and open-source image editing tool. A 7 MB worth of images is be processed and converted to gauge the system performance.
HandBrake is a free video encoding tool that supports a wide variety of media codecs. A 150MB worth MP4 video is converted using the H.264 codec to gauge the system performance.
WinRAR is a file archive utility that can create, view and unpack numerous archive file formats. The software’s built in benchmark tool is utilized to gauge the system performance.
We could see the implications of having a slower single core performance on GIMP, while the benefits of having better multi-threaded performance is evident with HandBrake and WinRAR.
Gaming
Battlefield 4 is Electronic Art’s popular First Person Shooter, running on the Frostbite 3 game engine developed by DICE. It utilizes the DirectX 11 and the Mantle API.
DIRT: Rally is CODEMASTER’s take on the rally racing game genre. It utilizes the EGO game engine with support for the DirectX 11 API.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is CDProjekt RED’s award-winning Action Adventure RPG. The Witcher 3 utilizes the REDengine 3 with DirectX 11 support.
Nothing exciting to see here folks. Carry on.
Gaming (AMD RX Vega)
The onboard graphic gaming performance is tested with 6 popular DirectX titles at 1080P with different settings.
The RX VEGA 8 onboard the Ryzen 3 2200G featured an acceptable performance vs the Ryzen 5 2400G at low settings. At medium, the gap got a little closer though the Vega 11 is still a clear winner here. Overwatch at Low and Ultra settings gave the most surprising results with a huge gap. Overall good results for the current budget APU champ.
Overclocking
Overclocking the Ryzen 3 2200G requires at least an AMD B350 motherboard. We are obliged to use the Ryzen Master but regardless, we also tested out overclocking via the UEFI / BIOS. Note that the screenshot of the Ryzen Master is taken from the 2400G review. Options are basically the same for both with the exception of the SMT settings.
Overclocking with the Ryzen Master is just as easy as sliding a few settings and ramping up a few voltage settings if required. We fired up the 3DMark FireStrike at default settings to get baseline figures.
We do not have the luxury to play with the CPU core clock but we just have to test the GPU core clock at 1500MHz with a voltage of 1.2v. The increase we got from overclocking the GPU alone is almost 15%. Excellent figure we got there from the Ryzen 3 2200G.
Conclusion
Looking at the benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 2200G is generally faster than the Ryzen 3 1300X on and multi-threaded applications. While the same cannot be said on single-threaded applications. This APU is not a direct replacement for the 1300X, but more of a replacement for the Ryzen 3 1200. That said, the general performance is certainly nothing to complain about.
Gaming performance wise, we are looking at similar figures with other Ryzen systems. With the Ryzen VEGA 8 however, we are looking at a capable integrated graphics that could easily push 30 FPS and more with the right settings. The VEGA 8 could also match the VEGA 11 with a simple GPU clock speed increase. We do not expect consistent performance gains on games but it should amount to a noticeable increase.
Thermals are pretty good while we can’t actually say the same thing about the power requirements. Other than those mentioned and the single-threading performance, it’s hard to fault the chip. That’s specially true if we’re talking about a $99 APU with a capable graphics performance on top of a solid architecture. The Ryzen 3 2200G is just shaping up as one of the best budget APUs released this side of 2018.
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G Processor
Summary
It’s hard to fault the AMD Ryzen 3 2200G APU. That’s specially true if we’re talking about a $99 APU with a capable graphics performance on top of a solid architecture. The Ryzen 3 2200G is just shaping up as one of the best budget APUs released this side of 2018.
Wait a second. You mean to tell me that you can play The Witcher 3 at Ultra Settings with 100 bucks of an APU? I had to spent a couple hundred dollars on a Core i5 and another 180 or so for a GTX 1050 to get that level of performance on 1080P.
Hi,
You must be referring to the discrete GPU gaming performance tests. There is a separate test for the APU’s gaming performance. :)