The Ryzen 7000 desktop CPU series is AMD’s first time to include a small integrated GPU natively, making the chips more attractive to budget and business desktops where a dedicated GPU is more common. These bare-bones GPUs won’t play many games, we found when we tested them, but they’re a reliable way to light up two monitors.
AMD says it plans to continue making desktop APUs, and the company’s long-standing idiom for Ryzen CPUs is paired with a more powerful integrated Radeon GPU, but we haven’t heard anything about a new Ryzen desktop APU. That may change early next year, according to release notes BIOS updates for Gigabyte motherboards. According to Gigabyte, the new series of APUs for Socket AM5 motherboards will be released starting in January 2024 and will be compatible with any current Socket AM5 motherboard running version 1.1.0.0 or AMD’s AGESA firmware.
Tom has hardware A breakdown The Ryzen 8000G series is derived from this new AGESA version. According to this, the chips will be named the Ryzen 8000G series, and AMD will use the same “Phoenix” silicon that it uses in its Ryzen 7040U laptop processors and the Ryzen Z1 series of chips for gaming handhelds.
The top-end chip is the Ryzen 7 8700G, which combines 12 RDNA 3 compute units with eight Zen 4 CPU cores and a Radeon 780M GPU. The Ryzen 5 8600G is a step below the Radeon 760M with six Zen 4 CPU cores and eight GPU compute units.
The Ryzen 5 8500G and Ryzen 3 8300G will land on a different Phoenix variant with a mix of high-performance Zen 4 cores and high-performance Zen 4c cores—two P-cores and four E-cores and one P for the 8500G. -core and three E-cores for the 8300G. Both will come with Radeon 740M GPU with four CUs.
The BIOS data doesn’t tell us how AMD will release these chips. For example, the Ryzen 4000G APUs and Ryzen 3 5300G are available exclusively to PC companies and are not sold directly to DIY PC builders.
Despite the “Ryzen 8000” branding, these new APUs use the same Zen 4 CPU architecture as the current generation Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs. We may or may not see future Ryzen 8000 CPUs with updated Zen 5 CPU cores next year. Architecturally, the main difference between AMD’s APUs and regular Ryzen desktop CPUs is that AMD’s are one big monolithic die with the CPU, GPU, and other functions, rather than splitting things up into separate chiplets. -end processors. Its main drawback is that AMD’s APUs lack 12- and 16-core CPUs.
AMD’s last APUs are the Ryzen 5000G series, which were released to the public in mid-2021. These CPUs still use AMD’s aging Vega GPU architecture and are built for Socket AM4 motherboards that use DDR4 RAM. Between the new RDNA 3 GPU cores, the availability of faster DDR5, and the higher power budget available for desktop APUs, we expect the top-end Ryzen 8700G to outperform both the older 5700G and lower-wattage 7040-series laptops. . RDNA 3 offers some handy gaming and video features like hardware-accelerated AV1 video encoding and hardware-accelerated ray-tracing.
It also suggests that the use of Phoenix silicon may include AMD’s “in high-end CPUs.Raison AI“Neural Processing Unit, which is used to accelerate certain AI and machine learning features internally.
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