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
dGPU Gaming Performance: 1080p
Moving along, here's a look at a more balanced gaming scenario, running games at 1080p with maximum image quality.
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
Civilization VI
World of Tanks
Borderlands 3
Red Dead Redemption 2
F1 2022
Hitman 3
Total War: Warhammer 3
At 1080p resolutions, we see the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G in a better light, but they still generally underperform compared to the fully-fledged desktop chips. While we can see that adding a discrete graphics card will improve performance at 1080p resolutions, we would still recommend users opt for a chip such as the Ryzen 5 7600X over the Ryzen 7 8700G if a user plans to buy a graphics card during the system planning stage.
With STAPM limitations removed, we see nearly identical performance when testing with a discrete graphics card as we did with STAPM implemented.
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TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
guys WHY would you use a CPU only test in a CPU REVIEW??!?!?!?t.s - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
Cause it have best iGPU in its class. If you won't test that, why bother testing, as it's almost certain that 7700x or 7700 will be better.AndrewJacksonZA - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
👍TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
Ok, and in the CPU bench section they use a CPU test. How would you know if a 7700 would be better in CPU load if you dont test it?AndrewJacksonZA - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
guys WHY would you only test PART of a CPU in a CPU REVIEW??!?!?!?TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
How DARE we want to see what a CPU does in a CPU review. WAAAH I NEED IGPU OR ILL CRY WAAAAHFWhitTrampoline - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
Because AMD does not support ROCm/HIP for its iGPUs and its ROCm/HIP for consumer dGPUs is lacking as well on Linux. And the Blender Foundation starting with Blender 3.0/Later editions has dropped supporting OpenCL as the GPU compute API. And so since Blender 3.0/later the Blender Foundation only supports Nvidia's CUDA for non Apple PCs/Laptops and Apple's Metal for Apple silicon for Blender 3D 3.0/later editions.So without any Ryzen iGPU support for ROCm/HIP there's nothing to take the CUDA Intermediate Language Representation(ILR) and convert that to a form that can be executed on Radeon iGPU/dGPU hardware. And for Intel's iGPUs and dGPUs it's Intel's OneAPI/Level-0 that does the translating of the CUDA ILR to a form than can be executed on Intel's iGPU/dGPU hardware and for Intel that OneAPI/Level-0 works for Windows and Linux!
Blender 3D generates CUDA PTX ILR and All GPU Makers us Intermediate Languages for GPUs so GPU makers/others ship no pre-compiled binaries where software gets directly compiled into the GPUs Native Instruction Set in advance. And that's so the ILR code remains portable across OS/Ecosystems and GPU makers are free to modify their GPU ISA and still maintain comparability with software that only gets compiled into a portable Intermediate language Representation(ILR)
FWhitTrampoline - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
Edit: maintain comparabilityto: maintain compatibility
I hate Firefox's Spell Checker its a Train Wreck as always!
thestryker - Monday, January 29, 2024 - link
Feels like these APUs deserve a DRAM scaling article comparing the IGP performance.GeoffreyA - Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - link
Yes, that would be a nice one. Always necessary for APUs.