AMD Zen 4 Core 8 Thread Raven Ridge APU Benchmark Leaked

In just under 3 weeks, AMD will release their new Ryzen 5 processors. So far, we’ve seen what 8 Zen cores can do with Ryzen 7 and we soon will have 6 core models with Ryzen 5. However, Ryzen 3, the 4 core models, have largely remained secretive. In a surprising turn of events, Raven Ridge, the Zen based APUs have actually been leaked before Ryzen 3. Even more interesting is that we have some performance numbers from the leak.

Accidently published by Chinese CPU firm Zhaoxin, we have a 4 core 8 thread Raven Ridge APU running the Fritz Chess benchmark against several other AMD, Intel and Zhaoxin CPUs. As expected, Raven Ridge performs about as well as we would expect from a quad-core Zen based APU. Despite featuring a total of 8 threads, Raven Ridge was only on par with the base Intel Core i5 on the Skylake architecture. Raven Ridge scored 11000 while the i5 6600 scores  11333 and the i5 7500 scores 14000. The FX 8370 scores 9360, the A10 7890 scores 7943 and the i3 6300 manages 7796.

Of course, it’s important that we don’t read too much into this leak. Even if the results are representative, this is but a single data point. We also don’t know the clock speeds for the Raven Ridge APU so we can’t judge it based on that. There are also questions that remain about how well the Zen SMT works in highly threaded tasks. The key take away is that with Zen, AMD’s APUs will not only dominate the iGPU side, but also the CPU side at last. In fact, we might even see 2 core 4 thread Raven Ridge being the perfectly balanced budget APU for gaming if such a model were to exist.

Last of all, we also see a glimpse of the Zhaoxin CPU offerings. Clocking in at 3 GHz with 8 cores, these x86 chips built in partnership with VIA are looking pretty good. In fact, they look almost comparable to the latest Intel and AMD offerings. Of course, Zhaoxin is bringing more cores to the table perhaps their own multi-threading technology but for first-time entrant, it is nothing short of amazing.