WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.200 Here it is, folks. The highlight of the AMD booth, at least for me, the Ryzen 7 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:11.120 5700 X3D. It may be dressed in the 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:14.559 Emperor's new clothes. They didn't have any physical samples here for me to 00:00:12.559 --> 00:00:19.920 hold, but I'm genuinely stoked on this thing. A new AM4 processor all these 00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:26.480 years later. It's clocked a little lower than the 5800 X3D that we know and love, 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:30.000 but it has the same great 3D VCH. And it 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:33.120 comes at a gorgeous dropin replacement 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.440 for your existing DDR4 platform setup 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:39.040 price of $250, making it a no-brainer upgrade for 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:43.040 someone who wants to increase their gaming performance, but doesn't want to 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:48.000 invest in a whole new motherboard and system memory. I love this move. There's 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:51.440 a handful of other new Ryzen 5000 series chips that flesh out their lower-end 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:55.440 options. But given they're the only ones they bothered to bring to the show, what 00:00:53.120 --> 00:01:02.239 AMD really wants to talk about is these new Ryzen 7000 CPUs. But first, let me 00:00:59.199 --> 00:01:03.920 paint a quick segue to our sponsor. 00:01:02.239 --> 00:01:07.520 Headphone juice is not something you should be proud of. These are your 00:01:05.600 --> 00:01:11.760 typical headphones that accumulate heat while you game. Ew. Wiki Cushions add a 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:15.360 cooling gel to their cushions to keep your ears sweat free. You can easily 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:20.400 replace them on your headset. Check out Wiki Cushions at the link below. In my 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:25.680 hand is the Ryzen 7 8700G, which AMD is calling the next step in 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:30.960 personal AI processing. From a CPU standpoint, there's nothing to really 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:34.159 set it apart from Ryzen 7000 series. I'm 00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:36.960 looking at eight Zen 4 core, 16 threads, 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:42.400 DDR5 memory on the same AM5 platform we're already familiar with. What sets 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:45.360 it apart is everything else. Instead of 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:49.759 having kind of weak onboard graphics, we're looking at the same RDNA3based 00:01:48.320 --> 00:01:55.040 onboard graphics that we've seen in AMD's mobile chips that power devices 00:01:52.399 --> 00:02:01.759 like the ROG Ally. So, behind me, you can see Starfield and Balders's Gate 3 00:01:58.240 --> 00:02:06.320 running on this chip at okay, admittedly 00:02:01.759 --> 00:02:08.479 low details, but 1080p 60fps. 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:12.800 The games are freaking running without graphics cards. So, I think it's fair to 00:02:10.959 --> 00:02:16.319 say, at least if AMD's performance numbers are to be believed, don't worry, 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:20.959 we'll be validating them later, that this is the final nail in the coffin of 00:02:18.959 --> 00:02:26.560 those entry-level graphics cards that have always offered a really terrible 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:32.319 price toerformance ratio, but now just don't need to exist at all. Moving down 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:38.720 to the 8600G, you get some expected reductions in spec. two fewer CPU cores, 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:41.840 four fewer GPU cores, but that same AI 00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:43.360 NPU processor that 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:48.400 we're kind of waiting for software to make use of, but hey, it could come in 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:52.800 handy someday. And then as you make your way further down, things get very 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:59.360 interesting. The 8500G has six cores just like the 8600G, but 00:02:56.640 --> 00:03:04.720 two of them are traditional Zen 4 cores, while four of them are Zen 4C's. But 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:09.680 before you go, gee, that sounds an awful lot like Intel's hybrid architecture. 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:14.000 It's not quite the same. Zen 4C is architecturally the same as Zen 4 and 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:19.040 should have the same performance at the same clock speed, but the difference is 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:23.599 that they're crammed in tighter, meaning that they tend not to turbo up as high. 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:29.440 So, there is an expected reduction in performance. Also, the 8500G doesn't 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:35.040 have the AI processor and has a lesser GPU. Rounding out the lineup is another 00:03:31.519 --> 00:03:38.720 no-show, the 8300G, which has only one 00:03:35.040 --> 00:03:41.120 traditional Zen 4 core and three Zen 4C 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:44.799 cores. I'm going to be really curious to see how that thing performs. One thing I 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:49.440 know I'm not going to like is the name. I don't see how upgrading the onboard 00:03:46.799 --> 00:03:53.760 graphics and tacking on an AI processor sometimes necessitates an 8000 series, 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:59.120 but I guess, you know, sometimes you run out of numbers and you just got to kind of increase the series. Except no, you 00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:04.400 don't have to do that. You can tack on letters like they've done with the 7600 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:09.920 XT. This is a pretty significant upgrade to the existing 7600. 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:14.000 Sort of. While you won't find any increase to its stream processor count 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:17.919 or compute unit count, there is a bump to clock speeds with the corresponding 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:23.759 power bump. And perhaps most importantly, an increase from 8 gigs of 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:25.600 GDDDR6 memory to 16 gigs of GDDR6 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:29.520 memory, which as we've seen from our benchmarking of this card, can make a 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:32.560 pretty big difference in games that require it. There's a couple other 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:37.520 little things to cover. The support for DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR10 is now mandatory 00:04:35.919 --> 00:04:42.960 rather than being optional like it was with the 7600. And the price is 330 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:47.840 bucks, meaning that you're looking at a pretty darn good 1440p gaming 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:52.960 experience, even in demanding games like Starfield for a pretty reasonable price. 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:56.199 This is running at 1440p, right? Low, but yes. 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:04.720 Are your headphones cushions hot like a tiny steam room? Stop steaming your ears 00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:08.080 like your broccoli. 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