![]() Even a modest aftermarket air cooler won’t be stretched by a 5700G. Temperature wise, the 5700G is not demanding our 240mm Corsair cooler was barely stressed with peak temps in the mid 60☌ mark. Don’t forget that something like a Core i7 11700K can use 3 times that. Whiled looping Cinebench R20, we saw a peak power consumption of 77W, which is very impressive indeed. Zen 3 processors deliver awesome power efficiency and the 5700G follows that trait. AMD has RDNA 2 still in its locker, remember. Will Alder Lake spice things up again? It's tough to say, if we're being honest. Intel’s Xe is a step forward over older UHD graphics but the EU counts are simply too low in its 14nm Rocket Lake processors to be in any way competitive. This means games from a few years ago, or less demanding esport titles are perfectly playable. For anyone wanting a bit of an idea of how Valve's Steam Deck-with its own eight compute units of upgraded RDNA 2 GPU silicon-will perform, the fact the older Vega chip can deliver 1080p gaming with low settings in demanding titles like Metro Exodus should be exciting. When it comes to integrated graphics performance, however, there’s the 5700G and then there’s clear daylight to the competition. Storage: 1TB Samsung 860 Pro, 500GB Samsung 980 Pro Memory: Teamgroup Xtreem ARGB 2x 8GB DDR4-3200 Motherboard: ASRock B550 Taichi Razer Ed. It will really show in gaming performance. RDNA-based graphics, not to mention RDNA 2, will have to wait at least one more generation.ĪMD's integrated Vega GPUs are known to benefit from faster memory, so if you plan to game with it, we’d advise you spend a few extra dollars to top that standard DDR4-3200 memory support and grab a decent set of DDR4-3600 RAM to eek out a few more frames. That comprises eight compute units, and 512 GCN cores, operating at 2GHz. The integrated graphics does count as best-in-class, though it's still based on the ageing, though reworked and well optimised, Vega architecture. That’s a nice value add, though we'd say it’s adequate at best, and pretty much any aftermarket AM4 CPU cooler will outperform it. Notably, you’ll also get AMD’s Wraith Stealth cooler. Official memory support matches the other Zen 3 chips, at DDR4-3200. The latter certainly isn’t desirable, though apart from losing that peak NVMe SSD performance, much of the target market may not even notice. the 32MB of the 5800X) and you also lose PCIe 4.0 support, meaning you don't get access to the best SSDs around today. But to meet this 65W target, some sacrifices had to be made it’s not simply a down-clocked 5800X with integrated graphics bolted on. The 5700G has a base frequency of 3.8GHz and a boost frequency of 4.6GHz, yet it still has a very desirable 65W TDP. ![]() ![]() And by monolithic we mean that it doesn't match the chiplet design of the other Ryzen 5000-series CPUs, instead squeezing everything into one traditional package design. It’s a Zen 3 based processor with a 7nm, 180mm2 10.7 billion transistor monolithic die, with 8 cores and 16 threads. Traditionally the processor market has been the other way around entirely. I still think it’s a rather stunning state of affairs that Intel’s 11th Gen Core i5 11400 and i5 11500 are the best budget CPUs right now, while AMD’s 12- and 16-core models are the enthusiast picks. But the 5000G series aims to bring AMD back to full competitiveness in the lower to middle market, even though the likes of the Ryand Ryzen 3 3300X are yet to be replaced by Zen 3 counterparts. It was, after all, tricky to find AMD's APUs on sale even before the latest chip supply issues struck in earnest. The promise of Zen 3 cores and best-in-class integrated graphics has been eagerly anticipated and we’ll be eagerly watching to see how fully 5000G series models filter out into the market. And they’ve been sadly missed, even more so during the current chip crisis when many gamers either couldn’t find or couldn't afford discrete graphics solutions. Even during its weaker pre-Ryzen years its APUs always filled a solid niche in the market. AMD has traditionally had strong integrated graphics solutions.
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