Zen 3 Ryzen 5000G APU's coming to DIY Retail

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There has been some enthusiasm and questions about Zen 3 APU's to replace the current ones.

Well AMD have confirmed they are coming, later this year, up to 8 Zen 3 core and 16 Threads, 35 to 65 watts, Still Vega 8 Graphics.

 

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really am baffled with this, yes its got zen 3 cores but the rest of it is the same it seems, no new gpu architecture (hell its even got less gpu cores than previous gen, but clock speed bump to make up for it), the video stuffs been left the same also. could made a very good entry level htpc cpu but nope.

Its still DDR4, stronger graphics would just get choked by that.

 

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any idea how choked it is with ddr4 ? as they have just jumped up the gpu core speed by what 500mhz. so curious as to how close it really is to maxing our the memory. especially with the newer cpu memory controllers being a lot stronger than the old ones.

No idea, maybe you're right and they should have RDNA2 graphics.

 

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I really hope this doesn't cost more than a Ryzen 7 5800X!



The external cache really helped some of the Broadwell CPUs - after all the RDNA2 GPUs do have a cache setup to help alleviate some of the bandwidth problems. Something similar for a IGP might actually be helpful.

The top model is called the 5700G, (65 Watts) this could also be the cheaper 5800 people are looking for.

 

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5700G only support PCIE 3.0 and GPU Freq downgraded from 2100MHz to 2000MHz. And still on OEM.

I prefer AMD make this chip 5700G base clock at 4GHz locked with GPU 12 cores at 2400MHz and PCIE 4.0 and it a win win for customers desktop retail.

Why PCIe 4? a faster NVMe?