Here it is, folks. The highlight of the AMD booth, at least for me, the Ryzen 7
5700 X3D. It may be dressed in the
Emperor's new clothes. They didn't have any physical samples here for me to
hold, but I'm genuinely stoked on this thing. A new AM4 processor all these
years later. It's clocked a little lower than the 5800 X3D that we know and love,
but it has the same great 3D VCH. And it
comes at a gorgeous dropin replacement
for your existing DDR4 platform setup
price of $250, making it a no-brainer upgrade for
someone who wants to increase their gaming performance, but doesn't want to
invest in a whole new motherboard and system memory. I love this move. There's
a handful of other new Ryzen 5000 series chips that flesh out their lower-end
options. But given they're the only ones they bothered to bring to the show, what
AMD really wants to talk about is these new Ryzen 7000 CPUs. But first, let me
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hand is the Ryzen 7 8700G, which AMD is calling the next step in
personal AI processing. From a CPU standpoint, there's nothing to really
set it apart from Ryzen 7000 series. I'm
looking at eight Zen 4 core, 16 threads,
DDR5 memory on the same AM5 platform we're already familiar with. What sets
it apart is everything else. Instead of
having kind of weak onboard graphics, we're looking at the same RDNA3based
onboard graphics that we've seen in AMD's mobile chips that power devices
like the ROG Ally. So, behind me, you can see Starfield and Balders's Gate 3
running on this chip at okay, admittedly
low details, but 1080p 60fps.
The games are freaking running without graphics cards. So, I think it's fair to
say, at least if AMD's performance numbers are to be believed, don't worry,
we'll be validating them later, that this is the final nail in the coffin of
those entry-level graphics cards that have always offered a really terrible
price toerformance ratio, but now just don't need to exist at all. Moving down
to the 8600G, you get some expected reductions in spec. two fewer CPU cores,
four fewer GPU cores, but that same AI
NPU processor that
we're kind of waiting for software to make use of, but hey, it could come in
handy someday. And then as you make your way further down, things get very
interesting. The 8500G has six cores just like the 8600G, but
two of them are traditional Zen 4 cores, while four of them are Zen 4C's. But
before you go, gee, that sounds an awful lot like Intel's hybrid architecture.
It's not quite the same. Zen 4C is architecturally the same as Zen 4 and
should have the same performance at the same clock speed, but the difference is
that they're crammed in tighter, meaning that they tend not to turbo up as high.
So, there is an expected reduction in performance. Also, the 8500G doesn't
have the AI processor and has a lesser GPU. Rounding out the lineup is another
no-show, the 8300G, which has only one
traditional Zen 4 core and three Zen 4C
cores. I'm going to be really curious to see how that thing performs. One thing I
know I'm not going to like is the name. I don't see how upgrading the onboard
graphics and tacking on an AI processor sometimes necessitates an 8000 series,
but I guess, you know, sometimes you run out of numbers and you just got to kind of increase the series. Except no, you
don't have to do that. You can tack on letters like they've done with the 7600
XT. This is a pretty significant upgrade to the existing 7600.
Sort of. While you won't find any increase to its stream processor count
or compute unit count, there is a bump to clock speeds with the corresponding
power bump. And perhaps most importantly, an increase from 8 gigs of
GDDDR6 memory to 16 gigs of GDDR6
memory, which as we've seen from our benchmarking of this card, can make a
pretty big difference in games that require it. There's a couple other
little things to cover. The support for DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR10 is now mandatory
rather than being optional like it was with the 7600. And the price is 330
bucks, meaning that you're looking at a pretty darn good 1440p gaming
experience, even in demanding games like Starfield for a pretty reasonable price.
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