AMD has unveiled the Ryzen 8000G “Hawk Point” AM5 desktop APUs at CES 2024, combining Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU cores. These chips are equipped with the latest Ryzen AI “XDNA” NPUs (8700G & 8600G) and are aimed at a budget or mainstream audience who want to play casual or AAA games without having to upgrade a discrete graphics solution. This should reduce the cost of building a PC.
Similar to previous generations of APUs, AMD states that the Ryzen 8000G will benefit significantly from the available memory configuration on AM5 PC builds. The company recommends that users utilize at least a dual-channel DDR5 configuration with a 6000 MT/s kit. Due to the drop in memory prices, PC manufacturers can find a decent DDR5 6000 memory kit with a capacity of 32 GB for less than 90 EURO. Various retailers are offering options in the 60 to 80 EURO range, which is very reasonable. Also, AM5 boards like the B650 series start at around 100 EURO, which means a total upgrade path of 18o EURO plus the price of the chosen APU. The Ryzen 5 8500G starts at around 165 EURO and the Ryzen 5 8600G with NPU starts at 229 USD.
Since most gamers don’t see the need for an NPU or find it useful, the 8500G is a highly competitive product with 6 cores, even if it lacks the higher compute units of the 8600G & 8700G. Still, there are two advantages to owning an AM5 platform. First, it will serve for the long term, and AMD has reaffirmed its commitment to the platform for the next few years, so you will get at least two future generations of Ryzen CPUs for the platform. In addition, these APUs feature the Zen 4 cores, which can be easily paired with a high-end Radeon discrete graphics card like the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and still deliver great performance without having to worry about CPU bottlenecks in games.
One of the most interesting aspects of the AMD Ryzen 8000G APUs will be memory/power scaling.
Existing 7040 Laptop APUs cap out around 6400 MT/s & that might just be the sweet spot for AM5 APUs too which is a good thing since the APUs target budget/mainstream gamers. pic.twitter.com/250Cw7J0eD
— Hassan Mujtaba (@hms1193) January 8, 2024
So when you have an integrated GPU, you are relying entirely on the memory subsystem in the platform, that means your system RAM is gonna be what’s powering your GPU as well and so two things are really important.
So first thing is dual-channel RAM, absolute must, that’s a huge bandwidth advantage. Do not skip, you gotta have dual-channel. 6000 is pretty cheap nowadays, If you can do dual-channel 6000, you are gonna hit those great frame rates and really playable performance and that’s definitely that we will steer people.
Donny Woligroski (Technical Marketing Manager at AMD) – PCWorld
Donny Woligroski, AMD Technical Marketing Manager, emphasized to PCWorld that the Ryzen 8000G AM5 desktop APUs offer significantly better performance compared to laptop APUs. This is due to the use of a higher power of 65 watts and a fairly linear power scaling. In addition, the thermal advantage on desktop PCs will also contribute to improved performance.
You have a lot more power at your disposal. So these are 65W parts so they can use more power and power is pretty linear with graphics in these kind of parts and like you were saying, you can thermally give yourself a lot more headroom so you are not gonna get constrained by hot temperatures like in a laptop and we did see a significantly better perf on the desktop because of those things.
Donny Woligroski (Technical Marketing Manager at AMD) – PCWorld
On January 31st, the AMD Ryzen 8000G AM5 desktop APUs will be officially launched. If you’re looking for a new APU for AMD’s latest platform, now might be the perfect time to upgrade your system. It probably won’t get much cheaper.
Source: PCWorld
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