Curtain up for the phoenix flying into the desktop: Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G are here and, with eight cores, over 5 GHz and an RDNA 3 graphics unit, they finally provide new fodder for everyone who is happy without a dedicated graphics card could be. This article mainly deals with the CPU part of Ryzen 8000G. This is followed by another article that deals with the RDNA3 graphics part and the AMD frame generation. We already talked extensively about the “new” AMD processors in PCGH-Print 03/24. We therefore limit our respective tests primarily to performance and fps per watt (efficiency in games).
Overview
On January 8th at the CES IT trade fair, AMD presented the new Accelerated Processing Units (APU) called Hawk Point. The name “Ryzen 8000” can be slightly misleading, because it is neither the successor to Raphael, Zen 4 (Ryzen 7000), nor does it mean the official successor Eldora, Zen 5 (Ryzen 9000). The new Ryzen 8000 processors are based on the Zen 4 architecture, but come from the Phoenix mobile design, which debuted as Ryzen 7X40U/HS models and, unlike the desktop processors of the Zen 4 generation, are more powerful integrated graphics unit and AI acceleration. To make room for the RDNA 3 graphics, Ryzen 8000 APUs are limited in terms of the L3 cache: Instead of 32 MiBytes, the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G only use 16 MiBytes per CCX. They are taking the same path as their predecessors, such as the Ryzen 5 2400/3400G (Zen) or Ryzen 7 5700G (Zen 3), which in turn are only reduced desktop processors when it comes to the CPU part.
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