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

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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 WAAAAH

• FWhitTrampoline - 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 comparability
  to: 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.