AMD Cuts Prices of its Ryzen 8000G Desktop APUs—8600G Now at $199

[ymdhis]

Yeah, just wanted to double-check. I have had discussions with people who had the chiplet CPUs and saying that they only get 25W to 45W (5800X) total system power draw on idle or low usage when in fact that was just the TDP of the CPU alone.

ASRock B650M Pro RS WiFi is a good semi-budget (I was able to get it for $120 on a sale) board if you need 3 NVMe slots. However, take note that one of them is PCI-E 4.0 x2 and the only has a 8+2+1 power phase design, which is perfectly fine for a 65W TDP CPU/APU. The HDMI port is also 2.1-compliant as it can do 2160p144.

I got about 6W lower power usage after going from a 3600 to a 5600G, measured from the wall. It was also visible from Ryzen Master, the SoC power (on the 3600 this is the memory controller chiplet) was so much lower, on the 3600 that alone was using 10-11W, on the 5600G it gets as low as 4 watts.