Adobe Premiere CC, Excel, Power Consumption

Encoding our 4K content with Premiere saw both processors deliver the aforementioned performance out of the box. Feeding the Core i5-8400 more bandwidth reduced the encode time by 5% which isn't bad merely we saw a 16% reduction in encode time by overclocking Ryzen. This meant best case scenario for Intel sees them still xiii% slower in this test.

All the same when information technology comes to editing as I noted earlier when looking at the PCMark results, the performance is more competitive. Generally these editing tasks don't fully utilise the thread heavy Ryzen processors and we run across exactly that when using the Warp Stabilizer effect in Premiere. However with performance from both CPUs maximised we do get a similar result.

If you lot dear your Excel spreadsheets like Tim and myself washed, then Ryzen's going to impress. The complex Monte Carlo simulation completed 23% faster with Ryzen, though admittedly information technology's rare that yous'll exercise too many Excel jobs that take either CPUs more than a few seconds to complete.

Side by side up we have the seven-null examination and here the stock R5 1600 was fifteen% faster than the 8400 when carrying out compression work but a massive forty% faster for decompression. Pairing the 8400 with higher speed retention only improved its performance in this exam past virtually 2%. Overclocking the Ryzen processor increased performance by a further eight - xv% giving it a significant advantage over the Core i5-8400 in this workload.

Before moving onto the gaming benchmarks, here's a quick await at power consumption.The MSI B360M PRO-VD is very fuel efficient and information technology allows total arrangement consumption to drop under 100 watts for this heavy workload which is impressive. Moving to the MSI Z370 PC Pro with the faster DDR4 retention increased power draw by 24%, but it merely reduced the return time past a mere 2%.

Meanwhile the Ryzen 5 1600 was a lot more power hungry but proceed in listen Blender does fully utilize all 12 threads so a 65% bound upwardly from the stock 8400 isn't that bad given it has 100% more threads. When compared to the Z370 configuration the margin is significantly reduced too, for this comparison the Ryzen CPU was 32% more power hungry.

As I said in my initial B360 coverage, these stripped downward motherboards really aid to improve the performance per watt of the Coffee Lake CPUs. Overclocked the R5 1600 consumed a little over 70% more ability than the 8400 on the Z370 motherboard and that sounds like a lot and well it is. All the same keep in mind this is total system consumption and all 12-threads are nether heavy load, and so the fact that the systems drawing just 200 watts from the wall isn't exactly extreme.