The Performance and Capabilities of AMD Ryzen 5000 Series APUs

We got an average of 68 fps now, what's really kind of holding us back here is that ram speed we're only at 3200 megahertz. These APUs love faster ram because after all our system ram is used as vram and the faster it is the better that GPU can perform. In Call of Duty: Warzone 900p low settings, with it set up like this, we get an average of around 58 fps. But if you turn on dynamic resolution scale and set it to 60fps, you can get a constant 60 out of it, but it will degrade the graphics quality in my opinion.

I think it would definitely be worth turning that on, especially for the final PC game I wanted to test for this video, which was Cyberpunk 2077. At 720p low, we got an average of 46 fps, and really the only reason we got an average at 46 instead of around 32 is because crowd density is turned all the way down, really makes a difference.

With PC gaming out of the way, let's move over to some emulation. First up for emulation, we have some PS2 using PCSX2 directx 11 back in 1440p, Sly Cooper running great now, when it comes to harder to run games you might have to drop this down to 1080p but you should have a really good time with PS2 in this system. Moving over to Wii U using CEMU Vulcan, back in 30 fps is definitely where it's at especially with Breath of the Wild.

But when you go over to easier to emulate games with this emulator here, you can go up to 60, I've had really good luck with the new 5000 series Ryzen APUs in this emulator here, it's definitely come a long way because the 2000 series Ryzen APUs really couldn't even run this but with these new ones we're getting great performance now.

It's time for some PS3 using RPCS3 Vulcan, back in Tekken 6 which is an easier one to emulate I will admit with this emulator here it does work well on lower end chips but we're running at 60. Looking great so let's go ahead and take it up a notch to something a little harder to emulate for the RPCS3 emulator and that's Skate 3.

So here we have it, Skate 3 running at full speed but every once in a while I do see a dip down, I've seen it go as low as 54 fps when there's a lot of crowd density going on, and this really has to do with that lower TDP we have on this chip. In other systems that I've tested this chip on as long as I can keep that TDP over 65 watts we can run this game at 60 constantly but with this unit here you will see some dips through all of my testing.

I've been monitoring total system power consumption from the wall using a kilowatt meter, at idle we average around 16 watts while gaming jumps up to around 68 especially at 1080p and the maximum that I could get this to pull from the wall in an extreme test was 128 watts. The included CPU cooler did much better than I thought it would but it really comes down to this being only set to 65 watts at idle we averaged 39 degrees Celsius through gaming and emulation, the average was 71, and the maximum that I could get this to hit after a 10-minute stress test was 87 degrees Celsius.

So yeah, the X500 performed really well, and going into this I figured it would given that we have that desktop 5700G, I'm a big fan of this APU, and as long as you can keep it cool and powered up you should get really good performance. Now, there is an alternative to a small PC like this with the 5700G, and that's the ASRock Desk Mini, you can go ahead and build one of these yourself, it's going to probably come out to around the same price but with the ASRock Desk Mini we do have access to 150-watt power supply and we can also overclock the GPU.

And yes, with the Desk Mini we can get better performance out of this 5700G, so it really comes down to do you want something that's already pre-built I would go with the X500 if you don't mind building something yourself and getting your hands a little dirty, I would go with the Desk Mini but that's going to wrap it up for this one. If you have any questions or you want to see anything else running on the X500 just let me know in the comments below, I'm also going to leave a link in the description to the Minitimes forum website so you can learn more about this system.

The Ryzen 5000 Series APUs are powerful and efficient options for building your own PC or upgrading an existing one. With their advanced architecture and multiple cores, they offer excellent performance for gaming, content creation, and other demanding tasks. However, as we've seen in this review, the RAM speed is a bottleneck that can affect overall system performance.

But with the right configuration and a good cooling system, these APUs can deliver top-notch performance and efficiency. The ASRock Desk Mini is an excellent option for those who want to build a compact PC with a powerful APU, and it's worth considering if you're in the market for a new system or upgrade.

Overall, the Ryzen 5000 Series APUs are an excellent choice for anyone looking for a powerful and efficient CPU that can handle demanding tasks with ease. With their advanced architecture and multiple cores, they offer excellent performance for gaming, content creation, and other demanding tasks.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all-new menace forum x 500 mini pc now don't worry they haven't stated that there's any kind of carbon fiber in here and they're not claiming that they're using liquid metal on the cpu cooler for this one and by the way i do have another hx90 on the way we're gonna do a little bit of a comparison between the first one that i originally reviewed i never pulled the cpu cooler off of that one because i didn't have any extra liquid metal but it probably doesn't have liquid metal on it the new one that they're sending over should line up with what it states on the website but uh once we get to that we'll take a look and do a comparison but in this video we're looking at the x500 and what makes this so interesting to me is it's using a desktop class ryzen 7 5700g apu from amd eight cores 16 threads we also have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3 200 megahertz and this apu has radeon 8 graphics built in up to 2 000 megahertz so yeah it looks like they're basically using the same case they use with their x400 but this has been upgraded to a 5000 series zen 3 apu and yeah i mean it looks exactly the same we have the same i o layout dual gigabit ethernet we have our audio ports a micro sd card slot this does support an m.2 ssd plus a 2.5 inch mechanical or ssd drive you can pull the bottom off and place it in there along with the x500 mini pc they've also included a 120 watt power supply now i really do wish they would have included a 150 watt power supply but this is a 65 watt apu we're not gonna be able to do any major overclocking with this setup here so 120 watts should be fine for the 5700g running at the stock clocks up front we have our power button led power indicator and a 3.5 millimeter audio jack moving around back we have four usb 3.0 ports dual ethernet one of these actually supports 2.5 gigabit the other one is one gigabit full size display port full size hdmi and our power in so the first thing i want to do is pull the bottom off then we'll get the motherboard out we'll take a look at everything this does have a replaceable wi-fi ax card we can also get right to that m.2 ssd and add our 2.5 inch drive very easily by pulling the four screws out at the bottom once we get that drive bracket out of the way you can see that this uses sodem ram if you ever wanted to upgrade down the road you could but with this setup here we have 16 gigabytes running at 3 200 megahertz and when it comes to the cpu cooler they've added here it's pretty beefy for a mini pc but keep in mind we have that 5700g eight course 16 threads with a max boost up to 4.6 gigahertz this can get quite hot in tight spaces so we'll definitely have to keep an eye on those cpu temps but yeah everything's looking pretty good in here i don't see any liquid metals spread around like some of the hx900s on the market right now so uh let's go ahead and get this thing booted up for the first time then we're gonna get right into some testing for this video we're gonna run some benchmarks test out some pc games we'll get into some emulation i'm also gonna check out the cpu temps and total system power consumption this is the first boot so i need to go through and set windows up get all my applications installed and i'll be right back so the very first thing i wanted to take a look at was the bios and to my surprise it is unlocked uh with these mini pcs a lot of the times you get in here and there's not much we can change but we can even get into the amd pbs settings and the cbs settings we can change the fan curve we can up the wattage of the cpu itself now we don't have the awesome overclocking features like we would with a real desktop motherboard but even when it comes to overclocking the ram in this little thing we do have the option to do it all right so here it is this is running windows 10 home i'm fully updated i've installed a bunch of stuff that we're going to be testing in this video as you can see we have that ryzen 7 5700 g 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz and the built-in radeon a graphics first thing i always like to check out is just make sure that these graphics are running at full speed starter render test sensors 2 000 megahertz and from the bios that we just took a look at i have not found a way to overclock the gpu in this thing yet now before we jump right into it the last thing i wanted to check out was what kind of tdp this is set at right out of the box so i'm just going to run prime95 we're going to go with uh maximum power heat and this is sitting at 65 watts you saw it jump up to around 81 but we're sitting at 65. now i will tell you the 5700 g really performs much better over 65 watts but for the form factor i think we're going to be good to go got some benchmarks we're going to take a look at first then we'll move into some gaming and finally emulation when it comes to geekbench 5 coming in strong with that single core 1519 multi 7830 for cinebench r23 we got a total multi-core score of 12 637. 3d mark night raid came in with a 14 982 and finally fire strike with a 3411. so those are benchmarks they're looking pretty decent for what we have here but now it's time to see how this thing can really handle gaming first on the list we have fortnite 1080p performance mode high looking pretty good and i've had really good luck with these amd apus in this game here especially in performance mode if i was to run this at high settings with directx 11 i'd probably only have an average of around 64 fps but in performance mode we can get over 94 fps average here's marvel vs capcom infinite 1080p with a medium low mix now when there's a lot of effects on screen i have seen it dip down a little bit to around 58 but overall if i didn't have that fps counter i would never notice it i think it's doing pretty good and in the end you could always drop this down below or go down to 900p medium settings here's gta 5 1080p normal settings we got an average of 68 fps now what's really kind of holding us back here is that ram speed we're only at 3 200 megahertz these apus love faster ram because after all our system ram is used as vram and the faster it is the better that gpu can perform here's call of duty warzone 900p low settings and with it set up like this we get an average of around 58 fps but i will tell you if you turn on dynamic resolution scale and set it to 60fps you can get a constant 60 out of it but it will degrade the graphics quality in my opinion i think it would definitely be worth turning that on the final pc game i wanted to test for this video was cyberpunk 2077 where at 720p low we got an average of 46 fps and really the only reason we got an average at 46 instead of around 32 is because crowd density is turned all the way down really makes a difference with these apus so with the pc gaming out of the way let's move over to some emulation first up for emulation we have some ps2 using pcsx2 directx 11 back in 1440p sly cooper running great now when it comes to harder to run games you might have to drop this down to 1080p but you should have a really good time with ps2 in this system moving over to wii u using cemu vulcan back in 30 fps is definitely where it's at especially with breath of the wild but when you go over to easier to emulate games with this emulator here you can go up to 60. i've had really good luck with the new 5000 series ryzen apus in this emulator here it's definitely come a long way because the 2000 series ryzen apus really couldn't even run this but with these new ones we're getting great performance now it's time for some ps3 using rpcs3 vulcan back in tekken 6 which is an easier one to emulate i will admit with this emulator here it does work well on lower end chips but we're running at 60. looking great so let's go ahead and take it up a notch to something a little harder to emulate for the rp cs3 emulator and that's skate 3. so here we have it skate 3 running at full speed but every once in a while i do see a dip down i've seen it go as low as 54 fps when there's a lot of crowd density going on and this really has to do with that lower tdp we have on this chip in other systems that i've tested this chip on as long as i can keep that tdp over 65 watts we can run this game at 60 constantly but with this unit here you will see some dips through all of my testing i've been monitoring total system power consumption from the wall using a kilowatt meter at idle we average around 16 watts while gaming jumps up to around 68 especially at 1080p and the maximum that i could get this to pull from the wall in an extreme test was 128 watts the included cpu cooler did much better than i thought it would but it really comes down to this being only set to 65 watts at idle we averaged 39 degrees celsius through gaming and emulation the average was 71 and the maximum that i could get this to hit after a 10 minute stress test was 87 degrees celsius so yeah the x500 performed really well and going into this i figured it would given that we have that desktop 5700g i'm a big fan of this apu and as long as you can keep it cool and powered up you should get really good performance now there is an alternative to a small pc like this with the 5700g and that's the asrock desk mini you can go ahead and build one of these yourself it's going to probably come out to around the same price but with the asrock desk mini we do have access to 150 watt power supply and we can also overclock the gpu and yes with the desk mini we can get better performance out of this 5700 g so it really comes down to do you want something that's already pre-built i would go with the x 500 if you don't mind building something yourself and getting your hands a little dirty i would go with the desk mini but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you have any questions or you want to see anything else running on the x500 just let me know in the comments below i'm also going to leave a link in the description to the minis forum website so you can learn more about this but that's it for this video and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all-new menace forum x 500 mini pc now don't worry they haven't stated that there's any kind of carbon fiber in here and they're not claiming that they're using liquid metal on the cpu cooler for this one and by the way i do have another hx90 on the way we're gonna do a little bit of a comparison between the first one that i originally reviewed i never pulled the cpu cooler off of that one because i didn't have any extra liquid metal but it probably doesn't have liquid metal on it the new one that they're sending over should line up with what it states on the website but uh once we get to that we'll take a look and do a comparison but in this video we're looking at the x500 and what makes this so interesting to me is it's using a desktop class ryzen 7 5700g apu from amd eight cores 16 threads we also have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3 200 megahertz and this apu has radeon 8 graphics built in up to 2 000 megahertz so yeah it looks like they're basically using the same case they use with their x400 but this has been upgraded to a 5000 series zen 3 apu and yeah i mean it looks exactly the same we have the same i o layout dual gigabit ethernet we have our audio ports a micro sd card slot this does support an m.2 ssd plus a 2.5 inch mechanical or ssd drive you can pull the bottom off and place it in there along with the x500 mini pc they've also included a 120 watt power supply now i really do wish they would have included a 150 watt power supply but this is a 65 watt apu we're not gonna be able to do any major overclocking with this setup here so 120 watts should be fine for the 5700g running at the stock clocks up front we have our power button led power indicator and a 3.5 millimeter audio jack moving around back we have four usb 3.0 ports dual ethernet one of these actually supports 2.5 gigabit the other one is one gigabit full size display port full size hdmi and our power in so the first thing i want to do is pull the bottom off then we'll get the motherboard out we'll take a look at everything this does have a replaceable wi-fi ax card we can also get right to that m.2 ssd and add our 2.5 inch drive very easily by pulling the four screws out at the bottom once we get that drive bracket out of the way you can see that this uses sodem ram if you ever wanted to upgrade down the road you could but with this setup here we have 16 gigabytes running at 3 200 megahertz and when it comes to the cpu cooler they've added here it's pretty beefy for a mini pc but keep in mind we have that 5700g eight course 16 threads with a max boost up to 4.6 gigahertz this can get quite hot in tight spaces so we'll definitely have to keep an eye on those cpu temps but yeah everything's looking pretty good in here i don't see any liquid metals spread around like some of the hx900s on the market right now so uh let's go ahead and get this thing booted up for the first time then we're gonna get right into some testing for this video we're gonna run some benchmarks test out some pc games we'll get into some emulation i'm also gonna check out the cpu temps and total system power consumption this is the first boot so i need to go through and set windows up get all my applications installed and i'll be right back so the very first thing i wanted to take a look at was the bios and to my surprise it is unlocked uh with these mini pcs a lot of the times you get in here and there's not much we can change but we can even get into the amd pbs settings and the cbs settings we can change the fan curve we can up the wattage of the cpu itself now we don't have the awesome overclocking features like we would with a real desktop motherboard but even when it comes to overclocking the ram in this little thing we do have the option to do it all right so here it is this is running windows 10 home i'm fully updated i've installed a bunch of stuff that we're going to be testing in this video as you can see we have that ryzen 7 5700 g 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz and the built-in radeon a graphics first thing i always like to check out is just make sure that these graphics are running at full speed starter render test sensors 2 000 megahertz and from the bios that we just took a look at i have not found a way to overclock the gpu in this thing yet now before we jump right into it the last thing i wanted to check out was what kind of tdp this is set at right out of the box so i'm just going to run prime95 we're going to go with uh maximum power heat and this is sitting at 65 watts you saw it jump up to around 81 but we're sitting at 65. now i will tell you the 5700 g really performs much better over 65 watts but for the form factor i think we're going to be good to go got some benchmarks we're going to take a look at first then we'll move into some gaming and finally emulation when it comes to geekbench 5 coming in strong with that single core 1519 multi 7830 for cinebench r23 we got a total multi-core score of 12 637. 3d mark night raid came in with a 14 982 and finally fire strike with a 3411. so those are benchmarks they're looking pretty decent for what we have here but now it's time to see how this thing can really handle gaming first on the list we have fortnite 1080p performance mode high looking pretty good and i've had really good luck with these amd apus in this game here especially in performance mode if i was to run this at high settings with directx 11 i'd probably only have an average of around 64 fps but in performance mode we can get over 94 fps average here's marvel vs capcom infinite 1080p with a medium low mix now when there's a lot of effects on screen i have seen it dip down a little bit to around 58 but overall if i didn't have that fps counter i would never notice it i think it's doing pretty good and in the end you could always drop this down below or go down to 900p medium settings here's gta 5 1080p normal settings we got an average of 68 fps now what's really kind of holding us back here is that ram speed we're only at 3 200 megahertz these apus love faster ram because after all our system ram is used as vram and the faster it is the better that gpu can perform here's call of duty warzone 900p low settings and with it set up like this we get an average of around 58 fps but i will tell you if you turn on dynamic resolution scale and set it to 60fps you can get a constant 60 out of it but it will degrade the graphics quality in my opinion i think it would definitely be worth turning that on the final pc game i wanted to test for this video was cyberpunk 2077 where at 720p low we got an average of 46 fps and really the only reason we got an average at 46 instead of around 32 is because crowd density is turned all the way down really makes a difference with these apus so with the pc gaming out of the way let's move over to some emulation first up for emulation we have some ps2 using pcsx2 directx 11 back in 1440p sly cooper running great now when it comes to harder to run games you might have to drop this down to 1080p but you should have a really good time with ps2 in this system moving over to wii u using cemu vulcan back in 30 fps is definitely where it's at especially with breath of the wild but when you go over to easier to emulate games with this emulator here you can go up to 60. i've had really good luck with the new 5000 series ryzen apus in this emulator here it's definitely come a long way because the 2000 series ryzen apus really couldn't even run this but with these new ones we're getting great performance now it's time for some ps3 using rpcs3 vulcan back in tekken 6 which is an easier one to emulate i will admit with this emulator here it does work well on lower end chips but we're running at 60. looking great so let's go ahead and take it up a notch to something a little harder to emulate for the rp cs3 emulator and that's skate 3. so here we have it skate 3 running at full speed but every once in a while i do see a dip down i've seen it go as low as 54 fps when there's a lot of crowd density going on and this really has to do with that lower tdp we have on this chip in other systems that i've tested this chip on as long as i can keep that tdp over 65 watts we can run this game at 60 constantly but with this unit here you will see some dips through all of my testing i've been monitoring total system power consumption from the wall using a kilowatt meter at idle we average around 16 watts while gaming jumps up to around 68 especially at 1080p and the maximum that i could get this to pull from the wall in an extreme test was 128 watts the included cpu cooler did much better than i thought it would but it really comes down to this being only set to 65 watts at idle we averaged 39 degrees celsius through gaming and emulation the average was 71 and the maximum that i could get this to hit after a 10 minute stress test was 87 degrees celsius so yeah the x500 performed really well and going into this i figured it would given that we have that desktop 5700g i'm a big fan of this apu and as long as you can keep it cool and powered up you should get really good performance now there is an alternative to a small pc like this with the 5700g and that's the asrock desk mini you can go ahead and build one of these yourself it's going to probably come out to around the same price but with the asrock desk mini we do have access to 150 watt power supply and we can also overclock the gpu and yes with the desk mini we can get better performance out of this 5700 g so it really comes down to do you want something that's already pre-built i would go with the x 500 if you don't mind building something yourself and getting your hands a little dirty i would go with the desk mini but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you have any questions or you want to see anything else running on the x500 just let me know in the comments below i'm also going to leave a link in the description to the minis forum website so you can learn more about this but that's it for this video and like always thanks for watching\n"