The Ryzen 7000 desktop CPU sequence was AMD’s first to incorporate a small built-in GPU by default to make the chips extra interesting for price range and enterprise desktops the place a devoted GPU can be overkill. These bare-bones GPUs will not play many video games, as we discovered once we examined them, however they seem to be a dependable method to mild up a few displays.
AMD stated on the time that it additionally deliberate to proceed making desktop APUs, the corporate’s longstanding terminology for a Ryzen CPU paired with a extra highly effective built-in Radeon GPU, however we have not heard something a few new Ryzen desktop APU since. That may very well be altering early subsequent 12 months, in accordance with the discharge notes for a slew of BIOS updates for Gigabyte motherboards. According to Gigabyte, a brand new sequence of APUs for socket AM5 motherboards can be launched beginning in January 2024, they usually’ll be appropriate with any present socket AM5 motherboard working model 1.1.0.0 or newer of AMD’s AGESA firmware.
Tom’s Hardware has a breakdown of the Ryzen 8000G sequence, purportedly gleaned from this new AGESA model. According to this, the chips can be named the Ryzen 8000G sequence, they usually’ll use the identical “Phoenix” silicon that AMD makes use of in its Ryzen 7040U laptop computer processors and the Ryzen Z1 sequence of chips for gaming handhelds.
The top-end chip would be the Ryzen 7 8700G, which is able to mix eight Zen 4 CPU cores and a Radeon 780M GPU with 12 RDNA 3 compute items. The Ryzen 5 8600G can be a step down, with six Zen 4 CPU cores and a Radeon 760M with eight GPU compute items.
The Ryzen 5 8500G and Ryzen 3 8300G will step all the way down to a distinct Phoenix variant with a mixture of high-performance Zen 4 cores and high-efficiency Zen 4c cores—two P-cores and 4 E-cores for the 8500G, and one P-core and three E-cores for the 8300G. Both will come with a Radeon 740M GPU with 4 CUs.
What the BIOS knowledge does not inform us is how AMD will launch these chips. The Ryzen 4000G APUs and the Ryzen 3 5300G, for instance, had been obtainable solely to PC firms and never straight offered to DIY PC builders.
Despite the “Ryzen 8000” branding, these new APUs use the identical Zen 4 CPU structure as current-generation Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs. We might or might not see future Ryzen 8000 CPUs with up to date Zen 5 CPU cores subsequent 12 months. Architecturally, the principle distinction between AMD’s APUs and the common Ryzen desktop CPUs is that the APUs are nonetheless typically one massive monolithic die with the CPU, GPU, and different features all bundled collectively, moderately than separating issues into separate chiplets as AMD does for higher-end processors. The major draw back of that is that there aren’t any 12- and 16-core CPUs obtainable in AMD’s APUs.
AMD’s final APUs had been the Ryzen 5000G sequence, launched to the general public in mid-2021. These CPUs nonetheless used AMD’s getting old Vega GPU structure, they usually had been made for socket AM4 motherboards that use DDR4 RAM. Between the newer RDNA 3 GPU cores, the supply of quicker DDR5, and the larger energy price range obtainable to desktop APUs, we’d count on the top-end Ryzen 8700G to handily outperform each the older 5700G and the low-wattage 7040-series laptop computer chips. RDNA 3 offers some helpful gaming and video options, like hardware-accelerated AV1 video encoding and hardware-accelerated ray-tracing.
Using the Phoenix silicon additionally means that the higher-end CPUs might embrace AMD’s “Ryzen AI” neural processing unit, which can be utilized to speed up some AI and machine studying options regionally.