CES 2024 | AMD Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 5 8600G, Ryzen 5 8500G and Ryzen 3 8300G APUs officially announced for budget gaming rigs

Almost every one of AMD's Ryzen 8000 series Hawk Point desktop APUs showed up on Geeekbench in the past few weeks. The lineup includes four SKUs: the Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 5 8600G, Ryzen 5 8500G and Ryzen 3 8300G. Despite sharing the same name, two of the SKUs are radically different from the others. It is pertinent to note that the Ryzen 5 8500G and Ryzen 3 8300G will not include AMD's XDNA AI accelerator.

The Ryzen 7 8700G is an 8-core/16-thread APU with all Zen 4 cores clocked at 4.2 GHz (5.1 GHz boost). It has a rated TDP of 65 Watts and 24 MB of cache. As discovered earlier, it comes with a full-fat Radeon 780M iGPU. AMD claims it can outperform a Core i5-13400F + GeForce GTX 1650 setup in 1080p gaming (with low details). All of the aforementioned (and subsequent) tests were performed on a high-end rig with DDR5 6,400 RAM. Your mileage may vary if you use lower-end modules, as the iGPU performance heavily depends on memory bandwidth.

Similarly, it is supposedly up to 4x faster than the Core i7-14700K's integrated GPU. One can squeeze extra frames out of the Radeon 780M thanks to AMD Hypr-Rx and Fluid Motion Frames, both of which are supported out of the box. AMD is advertising the Ryzen 7 8700G as a 1080p gaming machine. We've seen it work wonders in consoles like the ROG Ally (curr. $699 on Amazon), and it'll be interesting to see what the Radeon 780M can do with extra thermal headroom and beefier cooling solutions.

Next up, there's the Ryzen 5 8600G with 6 cores, 12 threads, 5.0 GHz boost clock, 22 MB cache and 65 Watts TDP. It comes with a scaled-down Radeon 760M iGPU (6 CUs). The following two SKUs are interesting because they use a mix of Zen 4 and Zen 4c cores, which will be denoted as "C" and "c", respectively. First off, the Ryzen 5 8500G is also a 6-core (2C + 4c) CPU with 12 threads. It uses an even lower-end Radeon 740M iGPU. Everything else, including its cache, TDP, and boost clocks, are identical to the Ryzen 5 8600G. Lastly, there's the Ryzen 3 8300G, a 4-core (1C + 3c), 8-thread CPU with a 4.9 GHz boost clock, 12 MB cache, 65 W TDP, and a Radeon 740M iGPU.

The Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 5 8600G and Ryzen 5 8500G will be available for purchase on January 31 for a $329, $229 and $179, respectively. On the other hand, the Ryzen 3 8300G will launch as an OEM-only SKU, with availability starting sometime in Q1, 2024.