Wednesday, January 3rd 2024
AMD Ryzen 7 8700G Confirmed to Feature Maxed Out Radeon 780M Clocked at 2.90 GHz
Hot on the heels of yesterday's leak revealing that the Ryzen 5 8600G Socket AM5 desktop APU features a Radeon 760M iGPU with 8 CU, we're getting to know that the top of the line Ryzen 7 8700G comes with the maxed out Radeon 780M. The 8700G is a Socket AM5 APU based on the 4 nm "Hawk Point" or "Phoenix" silicon (unclear at this point).
The Ryzen 7 8700G features an 8-core/16-thread CPU based on the "Zen 4" microarchitecture, with a base frequency of 4.20 GHz, and a maximum boost frequency of 5.10 GHz. Each of the 8 CPU cores features a 1 MB L2 cache, and they share a 16 MB L3 cache. The Radeon 780M iGPU features 12 compute units (CU), amounting to 768 stream processors. The iGPU engine clock boosts up to 2.90 GHz. While all Ryzen 7000 desktop processors come with integrated graphics, AMD does not consider them to be APUs—processors with overpowered iGPUs that can be used for entry-level gaming besides high-resolution entertainment.
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The Ryzen 7 8700G features an 8-core/16-thread CPU based on the "Zen 4" microarchitecture, with a base frequency of 4.20 GHz, and a maximum boost frequency of 5.10 GHz. Each of the 8 CPU cores features a 1 MB L2 cache, and they share a 16 MB L3 cache. The Radeon 780M iGPU features 12 compute units (CU), amounting to 768 stream processors. The iGPU engine clock boosts up to 2.90 GHz. While all Ryzen 7000 desktop processors come with integrated graphics, AMD does not consider them to be APUs—processors with overpowered iGPUs that can be used for entry-level gaming besides high-resolution entertainment.
17 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7 8700G Confirmed to Feature Maxed Out Radeon 780M Clocked at 2.90 GHz
8600G for $299 or maybe $259 if we're lucky? Not too sure.
Didn't the 7800X3D demonstrated, that huge L3 brings huge benefit in gaming? And yet, here we see 16MB o_O
The 7800X3D.
The X3D cache is beneficial in games due to recurring CPU calls - instead of pulling it from main memory you cache it which makes it a zillion times faster.
Above APU is near RX580 performance. It will be sufficient for most cases.
I'm sure AMD internally tested out wether a APU with it's own HMB/X3D or so would be benefial or not. Likely the price would only increase.
When running with premium GPU's it's great, but that's the least likely combination for this APU.
All that extra L3 cache doesn't make sense with mid range or slower GPU's. That's why a Ryzen 5 7600 + RX 7700 XT will give you much better gaming performance than a Ryzen 7 7800X3D + RX 7600, even though both combinations cost about the same.
Comparing this to the 78003dx is not an apples and apples. While the 78003dx is a great chip, alone it wont perform better than the 8700g because the iGPU if the 8700g is much better.
That's what is important here, the iGPU. Not how much L3 cache the CPU has compared to the 78003dx.
The 3D performance of that processor will probably below a low end dedicated gpu card. Which is as they said, enough for "entry level gaming".
Another idea is to have a return of the Sideport Memory.