I’m building a machine against the use of this cool widescreen, high refresh rate AOC . The goal here is a relatively future-proof email-checking device that needs to outlast an elderly relative that wanted to invest in a nice monitor.
I obviously know I can reach a working solution by buying a GPU, but I was wondering if Vega integrated graphics is enough to push the frames involved in basic desktop/browser use on a high refresh-rate monitor of the kind mentioned? Is Vega 11 any better than Vega 8? Is the Ryzen 5 2400G Quad-Core worth the ~$50 more than the Ryzen 3 2200G for 0% gaming?
Mostly curious if anyone has any direct experience or relevant benchmarks to point me at. If we barely ever (; or only barely break;) 60fps, I’m going to apply some display budget elsewhere.
It’s not the easiest set of concepts for my Google-Fu, thanks in advance for any help. Enthused fan of Wendell’s, so I thought I’d bring this up here. Apologies if I’ve trampled any local rules.
A $1045 email machine? Sweet jesus. Get them an iPad… Seriously this build is from space. A $100 SSD and 16GB of 3200Mhz RAM to check email? But then paired with a poop PSU? Oof.
But if you’re determined to press on with this lunacy then my answer:
The Vega 11 graphics are a bit faster than Vega 8 but both are fairly limited by memory bandwidth and GCN scaling is meh so the actual difference is relatively minimal. Neither will have much issue driving such a display on the desktop.
Do keep in mine the 2400G does have SMT. IE Hyperthreading IE 4C/8T. However as this machine is just doing light work that shouldn’t matter.
Your motherboard choice may be an issue though. It only has a fairly old HDMI standard on it. I don’t think it can drive that resolution at that refresh rate. Not entirely sure on that one. May want to double check.
For context, the money is around, the elder disillusioned of Apple and unfamiliar with any OS. I’m taking the oppurtunity to put zim on Ubuntu. Hyperthreading makes sense for the extra $50, but I’m leaning towards R3 at this point.
Also haven’t had any issues with Rosewill PSU’s, trouble you for a recommended sub? Aware 500w is overkill.
Eh, it’s not worth the argument after I’ve already upsold the difference. There’s fervent curiosity now it’s known that “smoothness” I mentioned can be bought.
You are running out of sympathy
There is universal agreement this setup is complete waste of money and for 1/4 the cost you can achieve exactly the same goal of checking emails long into the future
A standard $200~400 Zotac box or NUC VESA mounted to the back of a monitor would do just fine and give them windows. If you give them linux, you ARE ON THE HOOK to support them for EVERY single one of their computer needs.
Whatever you decide to do I will just warn you Vega 8 and Vega 11 don’t have good support on ubuntu. Only on the latest kernel there is some improvement.
