AMD Ryzen 8000G series: Zen 4 CPU with fastest integrated graphics in the world

During their CES 2024 keynote, aside from the Radeon RX 7600 XT and some surprise new AM4 processors, AMD also revealed a new series of AM5 processors, the Ryzen 8000G series. These aren’t exactly high performance, enthusiast processors but rather are Zen 4-based APUs, which is to say AMD’s take on a desktop processor with integrated graphics onboard.

Starting then with the top of the product stack, the Ryzen 7 8700G features eight Zen 4 cores, 16-threads running at 4.2GHz base with boosts of up to 5.1GHz. There’s also 24MB of total cache and Radeon 780M graphics with 12 RDNA 3 compute units, which is fairly similar to something like the Ryzen Z1 Extreme’s integrated GPU. Beneath that is the Ryzen 5 8600G, a six-core, 12-thread CPU running at 4.3GHz base and 5.0GHz boost with 22MB of total cache and a Radeon 760M iGPU with eight RDNA 3 compute units. Both these APUs come with a Ryzen AI NPU for AI-related tasks and are rated for a 65W TDP.

We then come to the Ryzen 5 8500G which features six cores and 12-threads too, but only two of these cores are Zen 4, with the other four being the smaller, more power efficient Zen 4c cores. It’s rated for a base clock of 3.5GHz, with the two Zen 4 cores able to boost to up to 5.0GHz. The Ryzen 5 8500G comes with the Radeon 740M iGPU with four compute units, lacks Ryzen AI and comes with a 65W TDP.

Lastly, we have the Ryzen 3 8300G, which won’t actually be made available to the public as AMD is reserving this for their OEM partners only. This entry level processor has one Zen 4, three Zen 4C cores and eight threads, with a base clock of 3.4GHz, boosts of up to 4.9GHz for the Zen 4 core and a Radeon 740M iGPU too. It has a 65W TDP and will not come with Ryzen AI as well.

Now with this new Ryzen 8000G series, AMD was quick to call it the fastest desktop PC processor graphics in the world. The integrated graphics—at least, the Radeon 780M on the 8700G—should actually be pretty solid at 1080p, albeit perhaps not at max settings. But for those without or simply don’t intend to get a graphics card, these Ryzen 8000G processors do look fairly promising, at least if you look at AMD’s performance claims anyway. This means that if you’re building a new computer, you could get away with just the processor until you actually find a graphics card in your budget, with AMD themselves comparing it to an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650.

For those of you looking to get one of these new Zen 4/RDNA 3 APUs for your future build, they will be made available to the public later this month, with prebuilt systems featuring Ryzen 8000G series processors from OEM partners in Q2 this year.

No local pricing details just yet, but AMD has confirmed that for the top end Ryzen 7 8700G it will be priced at USD329 (~RM1,527.05). The Ryzen 5 8600G meanwhile is priced at USD229 (~RM1,062.90) while the Ryzen 58500G is priced at USD179 (~RM830.83).