AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G Review: Zen 4 APUs with RDNA3 Graphics
by Gavin Bonshor on January 29, 2024 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- AMD
- APUs
- Phoenix
- 4nm
- Zen 4
- RDNA3
- AM5
- Ryzen 8000G
- Ryzen 7 8700G
- Ryzen 5 8600G
CPU Benchmark Performance: Rendering
Rendering tests, compared to others, are often a little more simple to digest and automate. All the tests put out some sort of score or time, usually in an obtainable way that makes it fairly easy to extract. These tests are some of the most strenuous in our list, due to the highly threaded nature of rendering and ray-tracing, and can draw a lot of power.
If a system is not properly configured to deal with the thermal requirements of the processor, the rendering benchmarks are where it would show most easily as the frequency drops over a sustained period of time. Most benchmarks, in this case, are re-run several times, and the key to this is having an appropriate idle/wait time between benchmarks to allow for temperatures to normalize from the last test.
Some of the notable rendering-focused benchmarks we've included for 2024 include the latest CineBench 2024 benchmark and an update to Blender 3.6 and V-Ray 5.0.2.
We are using DDR5-5200 memory as per the JEDEC specifications on the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G, as well as DDR4-3200 on the Ryzen 7 5700G and Ryzen 5 5600G. The same methodology is also used for the AMD Ryzen 7000 series and Intel's 14th, 13th, and 12th Gen processors. Below are the settings we have used for each platform:
- DDR5-5200 CL44 - Ryzen 8000G
- DDR4-3200 CL22 - Ryzen 5000G
- DDR5-5600B CL46 - Intel 14th & 13th Gen
- DDR5-5200 CL44 - Ryzen 7000
- DDR5-4800 (B) CL40 - Intel 12th Gen
Another area where a mobile-based chip ported to a desktop doesn't quite match the bigger desktop chips is in rendering, a quintessential power and multi-threaded scenario where more cores and threads typically equate to higher performance. Both the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G beat out the Ryzen 5000G series APUs, although the Ryzen 7 5700G consistently beats the Ryzen 5 8600G as we would expect from having two more cores with four more threads.
In our rendering tests without STAPM limitations, we saw notable gains in performance in Blender 3.6. The performance increase without sustained power loads being limited, we're seeing up to 7.5% better performance across the longer tests, with around 5% more performance in the shorter tests.
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TesseractOrion - Saturday, February 3, 2024 - link
Maybe take your meds Maxijazz if you feel so "threatened" LMAO.Right trash snowflakes get triggered so easily *sigh*
TesseractOrion - Saturday, February 3, 2024 - link
You do, since it's triggered your usual inane response LOLt.s - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
As stated on other review comments, you'll be better served with 7840hs mini-pc. Better priced, better idle, better upper-limit power, almost as good againts 8700G (if there's given headroom).FWhitTrampoline - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
There's no Processor upgrade path for the 7840HS as It's BGA and soldered to the MB! And there's 3rd party software for upping the TDP past 65W on the Mobile and Desktop Ryzen APUs!nandnandnand - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
You don't need the upgrade path. The path you need to take is just use the thing for a few years and retire it for lighter duty (e.g. HTPC) or give it to a poor kid when you're done.Thunder 57 - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
Tell that to everyone who upgraded CPU's on AM4.meacupla - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
AM4 had a very long socket life. Long enough that AMD ran out of CPU numbers they could use in EEPROM with a single BIOS.AM5's life expectancy remains questionable.
meacupla - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
8700G costs so much that it is a terrible choice to begin with.For the same price, you can get an i3-12100F with RX 6600, and it'll spit out more frames.
Thunder 57 - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
I wouldn't recommend a 4 core CPU these days.meacupla - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
Yes, but if you are budget constrained and think the 8 core 8700G is good value, you would be sorely mistaken.