Your prayers are being answered, DIY PC builders: During its Computex 2021 keynote, AMD introduced that its hotly anticipated Ryzen 5000G APUs, which marry the corporate’s newest CPU cores with built-in Radeon graphics, will launch in just some months, on August 5. But circumstances across the ongoing chip scarcity imply these APUs don’t fill the identical function as prior-generation fashions.
Previous Ryzen 2000G and 3000G APUs slotted into the low finish of AMD’s processor lineups, providing 4 CPU cores and eight threads for costs starting from $80 to $150 or so on the streets. This time round, nevertheless, AMD doesn’t plan on making its modest Ryzen 3 5300G APU accessible to the DIY market. Instead, we’ll be getting the $259 Ryzen 5 5600G and $359 Ryzen 7 5700G.
- Ryzen 7 5700G: Eight cores and 16 threads; 3.8GHz base and 4.6GHz increase clock; 8 Radeon Vega GPU cores at 2GHz.
- Ryzen 5 5600G: 6 cores and 12 threads; 3.9GHz base and 4.4GHz increase clock; 7 Radeon Vega GPU cores at 1.9GHz.
AMDIn a briefing with PCWorld previous to the keynote, AMD’s Robert Hallock stated these chips are meant to face in as extra reasonably priced, non-“X” options to the prevailing $300 Ryzen 5 5600X and $450 Ryzen 7 5800X in AMD’s kick-ass Ryzen 5000 lineup (although these APUs are constructed across the “Cezanne” CPU structure that debuted in AMD’s also-kick-ass Ryzen 5000 Mobile chips). The Ryzen 3 5300G supplied in prebuilt techniques isn’t being supplied on to PC builders partly attributable to AMD’s choice to prioritize higher-end processors whereas silicon shortages proceed to ravage the expertise business, Hallock stated.
That’s disappointing information for avid gamers who may need been hoping to construct a modestly priced Fortnite rig round a brand new Ryzen Three APU, however in case you’ve obtained the money for them, the Ryzen 5 5600G and Ryzen 7 5700G fulfill quite a lot of the requests that fans have filed over Ryzen APUs. As we stated in our unique have a look at the Ryzen 5000G choices, “While all previously available DIY Ryzen APUs topped out at four cores, AMD listened to the loud grumbles for higher-performance options with the Ryzen 5000G series, culminating in the fully loaded 8-core Ryzen 7 5700G. That’s overkill if all your hoping to do is game on the chip’s integrated graphics, but it’s welcome news indeed for people who need modest graphics performance and higher CPU performance for specific tasks.”
AMD“People suffering through the global GPU crisis will be more interested in those Radeon GPU cores, however,” we stated. “The Ryzen 5000G lineup still leans on AMD’s Radeon Vega 8 architecture, rather than the new RDNA 2 architecture found in the Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards, which you can’t even buy. Still, the company says the Vega 8-based silicon should be much more potent than before. Both the CPU and GPU cores have been built using the 7nm manufacturing process, rather than the 12nm process found in previous chips, which helps unlock much higher frequency for the graphics. The older Ryzen 5 3400G’s Radeon cores topped out at 1.4GHz, but all of the new chips exceed those speeds, with the flagship cranking things up to a blistering 2GHz. That’s wild for integrated graphics.”
AMDHow wild? During the briefing, Hallock shared a slide displaying the 5700G operating Rogue Company at a whopping 78 frames per second at 1080p decision with High visible settings enabled. That’s killer efficiency for built-in graphics. Another slide confirmed the Ryzen 7 5700G whomping on Intel’s rival 8-core Core i7-11700 processor, which prices about $20 much less, in each gaming and content material creation duties. The slide lacked precise gaming body charges or content material creation scores, nevertheless, solely displaying relative efficiency between the processors. AMD dominated.
Ryzen Pro 5000G and 5000GE
The new APUs are additionally being tapped for extra critical work within the type of Ryzen Pro 5000G- and GE-series processors. G-series processors have a 65-watt TDP,…
