AMD reduce los precios de sus APU de escritorio Ryzen 8000G: 8600G ahora en $199

Prices of AMD Ryzen 8000G “Hawk Point” desktop APUs in the Socket AM5 package saw reductions over the week. Hay algunas ofertas tentadoras en la eShop de 3DS ahora mismo 7 8700G, the fully unlocked part, ya está disponible para $299, un $30 cut from its launch price of $329. Mientras tanto, el Ryzen 5 8600G has now slipped under the $200-mark, with a $199 price-tag. The chip had originally launched at $229. Both these chips feature a 16 TOPS NPU, and are the first desktop processors that are capable of on-chip AI acceleration. Both processors are based on the 4 Nuevo Méjico “Hawk Point” que AMD afirma ser el procesador de juegos más rápido del mundo, MB de caché L3 que se comparte entre todos los núcleos de la CPU “Zen 4” Núcleos de CPU. The 8700G packs an 8-core/16-thread CPU with an RDNA 3 iGPU that has 12 unidades de cómputo (CU); while the 8600G is 6-core/12-thread, with an iGPU that has 8 CU.

Things get interesting with the Ryzen 5 8500G, which is now down to $159 from its launch price of $179. This new price makes the processor competitive with the 13th Gen Core i3 and the lower end of the Core i5 lineup. Unlike the other two 8000G series chips, the 8500G lacks an NPU, and is based on the 4 Nuevo Méjico “fénix 2” silicon that has two “Zen 4” y cuatro “Zen 4c” CPU cores for a 6-core/12-thread CPU configuration. Both kinds of cores share a 16 MB de caché L3. It has a heavily cut-down RDNA 3 iGPU with just 4 CU. The Ryzen 8000G desktop APU series only features PCIe Gen 4 (no Gen 5), which may not mean much for today’s discrete GPUs, but limit your SSD upgrade path to Gen 4 (Gen 5 SSDs will be limited to 7 GB / s).