"Zen 2" Ryzen 3000 Series MAME Performance Chart

[Josh128]

Though R3K appears to be a better option for emulation than R1K or R2K (which are also good chips), there seems to be very little resources around showing benchmarks and actual comparisons. Over at MAMEWorld I happened upon the thread below that ran some benches on a 3950x. Unfortunately, the guy did not run stock and only ran PBO (which can in some cases lower performance) and then tried screwing with the affinity. This is really no good to see what baseline performance will be. His results were at:

https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/s ... Post384992

I'm running a 3700x now and am setting up a GroovyMAME 64 v.220 / CRTEmuTools 15KHz machine with an AMD 5450 graphics card and a free Core 2 Duo E8500 system that I aquired recently. While most of the titles Im interested in run full speed on the Core 2, some, like the Atari Voodoo Graphics games of the mid-to late '90s, are just managing around 100% and drop frames and skip sounds every so often. Im debating as to whether one of the upcoming 4 core Ryzen 3000 chips would be the best bang for the buck replacement for such a system, so while I am playing with all this I intend to run some benches on both systems using the same version of MAME. I wont be playing with any OC, PBO, or affinity BS, which can skew results, usually for the worse, IMO. I plan to post results of about 10 popular and semi- demanding games with full disclosure on specs and setup.

I check performance with the followings command line options:

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\MAME>mame64 mk4 -nothrottle -video none -str 60  

Which doesnt take into account 3D hardware of your PC (no raster) and is a pure unthrottled CPU bench of the first 60 seconds after bootup (note this may only include test or intro screens, depending on the title, but is valid if all tests are done in the same way. After the warnings, etc. and allotted time, it yields:

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Average speed: 180.09% (59 seconds)  

The above test was run for MAME .220 64 bit on Win 10 on a stock i5-7500 CPU (my work PC). It has a base freq of 3.4GHz and Turbo of 3.8GHz. I plan to run a good set of games on the 3700x and will post the results and hopefully comparisons with this i5-7500 PC and the Core 2 E8500 when I get the chance.

*EDIT- So below is a preliminary chart using the same PC running two different versions of MAME. I noticed the numbers were a lot lower than what I remembered on the newest version, so I compared the two to make sure I wasnt losing my mind. Indeed the .123b version is faster for most games that it emulates well, sometimes over 2x faster, which is strange. I hope to add to the chart in the coming days / weeks. The results posted are an average of 4 runs each, done with the command line options shown above.

*EDIT2 - Added some results of my work PC, an HP Elitedesk Core i5 7500 (3.4GHz base, 3.8 GHz Turbo). More results to come...

*EDIT3- Added propcycl, sf2049, some E8400 results

**EDIT4- Re-ran all i5 7500 games. Apparently had some background processes running in the first batch of tests that slowed some games. Most games have improved now, and the 3700x average speed difference has dropped to +21%. Will need to re-run tests on 3700x machine to make sure nothing changes there as well. Added some R5 2600 (default operation) Archlinux results. Removed some anomalous results from 3700x .220 column. Need to re-run.

**EDIT5 - Re-ran R7 3700x results to ensure no games were stuck on cal screens, etc. Finished running E 8500 on .220b. Recalculated 3700x overall performance deltas over other CPUs since updating individual results.

*EDIT6 - Reformatted chart, added Core i5 2500 and Ryzen R5 2400G results. Calculated normalized performance vs Core i5 2500. Added system specifications section.

[Josh128]

Updated chart to add some Ryzen R5 2600 results and a few new games. Re-ran all i5 7500 games due to background processes affecting results.

[Josh128]

Re-ran R7 3700x results to ensure no games were stuck on cal screens, etc.
Finished running E 8500 on .220b
Recalculated 3700x overall performance deltas over other CPUs since updating individual results.

[donluca]

Amazing work, thanks man.

[Josh128]

Amazing work, thanks man.

Hey thanks, I just updated the chart , added Core i5 2500 and Ryzen 2400G results that I personally tested. Also added normalized performance vs i5 2500 and system specs info.