AMD is launching its latest generation of APUs, the Ryzen 5000G series. The 5000G APUs will use the same Zen 3 architecture as AMD’s highly successful Ryzen desktop CPUs and should offer consumers a great power-to-price option for portable hardware.
AMD Launches Ryzen 5000G APUs
The AMD Ryzen 5000G APUs will launch using the 7nm Zen 3 architecture, complete with AMD Vega 8 integrated graphics.
The top 5000G series APU is the Ryzen 7 5700G, an eight-core, 16 thread chip with a base frequency of 3.8GHz and a maximum turbo frequency of 4.6GHz. The 5700G also includes eight GPU CUs, which will allow for some decent gaming. The 5700G (and the other 5000G series) APUs are now compatible with DDR4-3200 RAM, which provides another handy performance boost.
At the bottom end of the scale, the Ryzen 3 5300G has four cores and eight threads, a base clock of 4.0GHz, and a maximum turbo frequency of 4.2GHz. As the 5300G is the entry-level APU, it does come with slightly less powerful onboard graphics, with a frequency of 1.7GHz, but only six CUs.
Each of the new 5000G APUs also has a 5000GE counterpart. The 5000GE units have a lower power requirement in comparison, using only 35W rather than 65W. These lower power units will bring really decent processing power to fully integrated hardware or other hardware that requires a very low thermal output.
Compared to Intel’s Core i7-10700, AMD claims the APUs are around 38 percent faster in content creation and up to 35 percent faster in productivity. The inbuilt Vega 8 graphics promise to be up to 2.17 times faster in gaming, too.
For the time being, AMD is only releasing the new APUs to OEMs rather than for general release.
New Ryzen CPUs Released Without Fanfare
While AMD was touting its shiny new 5000G APUs’ credentials, it also pushed two new CPUs live without causing a fuss.
The AMD Ryzen 9 5900 and the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 bring the total number of Ryzen 5000 series processors up to 12. The Ryzen 9 5900 has 12 cores, 24 threads, a base clock of 3.0GHz, and a maximum boost of 4.7GHz, while the Ryzen 7 5800 eight cores, 16 threads, a base clock of 3.4GHz, and a 4.6GHz maximum boost.
As with the new APUs, the 5900 and 5800 processors are also OEM-only. AMD has not indicated when these CPUs will become available for general retail, if at all.