AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G Review: Zen 4 APUs with RDNA3 Graphics

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• nandnandnand - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link

  I could have sworn that was in here, but I was probably thinking of other reviews.
  
  Short story long, AnandTech is dying and you should go to other sites for reviews now. And the 780M iGPU in the 8700G is not going to do well against a 2060/3060. It seems to be around a GTX 1650 in performance.

• is4u2p - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link

  Uh, the M1 had dedicated NPUs in it and it is a desktop processor.
  
  As for these, they're Z1 and Z1 Extreme APUs rebranded, you can get these in the handheld gaming machines.

• Stu7nm3dflash - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - link

  Certainly Apple has a lot of machine learning built in, this iPad Mini 6, has 16 tflops of ML, more than the M1, but little access to big amounts, of short term memory, my Ryzen 5 8600, only has 16 tflops, but I've given it 64GB of DDR 5 and PCIe4. Fingers crossed, for my creative work. ARM, is more power efficient, the M1,2,3, Pro, Max, Ultra, iPhone, Apple TV, iPads all have ML, plus unified memory and PCIE4. But amount of memory is also important, 64GB of DDR 5 only cost me $A200, PCIE4 $ 100, motherboard $125, chip $A375, my Mac mini M1, only has 8GB, of unified memory, it crashed immediately, under AI model load.

• Stu7nm3dflash - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - link

  My use case, is a bit different, turning 2 stories, 11 pages into 80 pages, at first, online, I got 3 paragraphs. Then on an 8 core, 4000 series, Ryzen 7, with 32 GB of DDR 4, PCIe3, I got 4 pages, now, 64GB of DDR 5, PCIe4, Ryzen 5 8600, with 16 tflops of AI, I'm hoping for more pages, before it crashes. At double the short term memory, at double the speed, double speed long term memory, a specific AI architecture and 4nm nearly 3 times the transistor density, of 7nm, last time I used Jan.ai, plus a model, easiest build yet. Fingers crossed, more specific processing, 4 times the short term memory power, I hope I'm getting closer, memory, processing and software continue to advance.

• GeoffreyA - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - link

  Perhaps you'd get better results with a GPU upgrade?

• peevee - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - link

  Too bad 8700G is hamstrung by only 65W and PCIe4 (and only 2 RAM channels).
  
  Maybe their graphics department insisted on these things to preserve sales? APUs would be so nice at 4 DDR5 channels and 200W...

• meacupla - Friday, February 2, 2024 - link

  Socket AM5, with its 1718 pins, doesn't have enough pins for quad channel DDR5.
  While I don't think it would require 4844 pins like sTR5 for threadripper, it would require a new socket.

• vertigoz - Saturday, February 3, 2024 - link

  I would love to see benchmarks of ai/3d using GPU, allowing much more ram can be a major plus

• blackie333 - Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - link

  I really care more for IDLE power consumption than maximum power because I use my PC mostly for reading/music listening. Gaming or crunching videos is not my daily routine.
  These integrated AMD CPUs have been chosen by many because of their much better IDLE power efficiency compared to normal desktop models.
  I haven't found idle power consumption comparison with older gen. models in the article.
  I'm getting old and my eyes don't serve me as good as before, maybe it's there somewhere but can't find it.

• masb - Friday, February 9, 2024 - link

  Excellent comparison, especially regarding the OpenFOAM topic. Where can I access the complete specifications for the Intel Core i5-14600K system?