AMD’s Ryzen 5000G looks like the right antidote to a PC world nonetheless wracked by GPU shortages (and inflated costs for the few accessible). It integrates high-performing Zen Three cores with Radeon graphics right into a bundle known as an accelerated processing unit (APU).
Whether it really is the reply to all of your wants relies upon largely on what you plan to do together with your PC over its lifespan. We’ll stroll you thru the highlights and low factors of this new product.
What is Ryzen 5000G?
Ryzen 5000G is actually AMD’s wildly profitable 7nm Cezanne laptop computer chip, first used within the additionally wildly profitable Ryzen 5000 desktop chips, however moved into an AM4 socket. You can learn our assessment of Cezanne for full particulars on the chip.
AMD provided Ryzen 4000 APUs beforehand, however these had been OEM-only for essentially the most half. The quickest APU shoppers have formally had entry to was the 8-core Ryzen 5 3400G, constructed utilizing an older 12nm course of and AMD’s older Zen+ cores.
Two shopper Ryzen 5000G fashions are being launched in the present day, which you’ll be able to formally purchase starting August 8:
- Ryzen 7 5700G: 8-core, 16-thread, 7nm (Cezanne), with Eight CU’s of Radeon graphics at 2GHz. It has a lift clock of 4.6GHz and a base clock of three.8GHz on a 65-watt TDP. The chip options 24 lanes of PCIe Gen 3, 20MB of cache, and a listing worth of $359.
- Ryzen 5 5600G: 6-core, 12-thread, 7nm (Cezanne), with 7 CU’s of Radeon graphics at 1.9GHz. It has a lift clock of 4.4GHz and a base clock of three.9GHz on a 65-watt TDP. The chip options 24 lanes of PCIe Gen 3, 19MB of cache, and a listing worth of $259.
The built-in graphics is one distinct facet of those APUs over their dedicated-CPU cousins. Intel bakes graphics cores into the overwhelming majority of its Core chips, however not AMD. Its non-G Ryzen 5000 chips want a discrete graphics card to run a PC.
Also, whereas “true” Ryzen 5000 desktop chips are constructed round a number of chips linked by Infinity Fabric, the Ryzen 5000G (very similar to the laptop computer model) is a single-chip design. Compared to Ryzen 5000, Ryzen 5000G has simply half the cache (32MB to 16MB) and simply 24 lanes of PCIe 3.0. Of these 24 lanes, 16 go to the GPU, and Four from the CPU hook up with NVMe. The final Four are used to hook up with the chipset, which itself can function extra PCIe lanes. You could also be wistful for PCIe Gen 4, however look on the intense aspect: The earlier shopper Ryzen 5 3400G featured a paltry Eight lanes of PCIe Gen 3.
Gordon Mah UngAMD’s Ryzen 7 5700G isn’t low cost, nevertheless it gives the corporate’s Zen Three cores paired with Radeon graphics.
How we examined
Our testing is offered by PCWorld’s sister web site, PCWelt.de, due to the exhausting work of our colleague Sebastian Schenzinger. (You can learn Schenzinger’s Ryzen 5000G assessment in German on the web site.)
PugetBench for Photoshop leans on CPU and GPU throughout its check runs. The winners listed below are the unique Ryzen 5000 chips, echoing Ford’s GT40 1-2-Three win at LeMans in 1966. An honorable point out however no first place additionally goes to Intel’s much-maligned 11th-gen Core i9-11900Ok Rocket Lake chip.
The different CPUs are undoubtedly step behind these, however the chief of the subsequent pack to cross the end line? AMD’s Ryzen 7 5700G. Granted, these outcomes are so near be nearly a tie, however an APU outpacing the once-might Ryzen 9 3900X exhibits simply how superior the Zen Three cores are.
IDGPugetBench runs Adobe Photoshop by way of a script and measures its efficiency.
The final CPU benchmark we’ll discuss is PugetBench’s check for Adobe Premiere Pro, which additionally makes use of the favored non-linear editor as a foundation. One factor you’ll be able to instantly see is extra cores matter a bit extra in video enhancing and Premiere Pro. Unlike the carefully packed Photoshop outcomes, there’s just a little more room right here between contenders.
For instance, we now see the 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X transfer into third place with the 16-core and 12-core Ryzen 5000 chips. The 10-core Core i9-10900Ok has a slight edge over the 8-core Ryzen 7 5800X.
Where is the Ryzen 7…
