Its nothing over the top its just footage of bird watching that i edit together for you tube
Ah, it is really hard to find good benchmarks that include the IGP, but I can at least share these.
Media Encoding, H.264 (H.265 & VP9 are in the link)
8600G: 25.96 fps
8700G: 33.27 fps
7800X3D: 35.79 fps
Hardware Busters - AMD Ryzen 5 8600G APU Review: Performance, Thermals & Power Analysis - CPU
hwbusters.com
HandBrake can be found here:
(lots of different results since it depends on the power settings)
Ryzen 7 8700G & 5 8600G (OC) im Test: App-Benchmarks, Multimedia und Stromverbrauch / Testmethodik für Anwendungen
www.computerbase.de
and here:
Zen 4, RDNA 3, and AM5 excite.
www.tomshardware.com
From what I can see, if you're using the CPU, then the 7700 non-X would actually be a better buy than either of those CPUs, BUT the 8600G/8700G can encode AV1 in hardware because they're based on RDNA 3, whereas the integrated graphics on the Ryzen 7700 is RDNA 2. You can find one of the slides here:
AMD Ryzen 7000 RDNA2 GPU features confirmed AMD Ryzen 7000 are the first desktop Ryzen non-G series to feature RDNA2 graphics. Ryzen 7000 iGPU has powerful video decoding and display output specs. AMD today reaffirms that the built-in RDNA2 GPU has two Compute Units. As mentioned before, the...
videocardz.com
The other possibility is to buy whatever you want, even a 12100F and use an Arc A310, but I'm assuming you want a very small form factor here?