AMD Cuts Prices of its Ryzen 8000G Desktop APUs—8600G Now at $199

Prices of AMD Ryzen 8000G “Pointe du faucon” desktop APUs in the Socket AM5 package saw reductions over the week. Le Ryzen 7 8700G, the fully unlocked part, is now available for $299, une $30 cut from its launch price of $329. Meanwhile, en raison du GPU intégré qui obtient plus de bande passante que lorsqu'il est associé à la mémoire DDR4 5 8600G has now slipped under the $200-mark, avec un $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 nm “Pointe du faucon” AMD prétend être le processeur de jeu le plus rapide au monde, Mo de cache L3 partagé entre tous les cœurs de processeur “Zen 4” Cœurs de processeur. The 8700G packs an 8-core/16-thread CPU with an RDNA 3 iGPU that has 12 unités de calcul (AVEC); while the 8600G is 6-core/12-thread, with an iGPU that has 8 AVEC.

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 nm “Phoenix 2” silicon that has two “Zen 4” et quatre “Zen 4c” CPU cores for a 6-core/12-thread CPU configuration. Both kinds of cores share a 16 Mo de cache L3. It has a heavily cut-down RDNA 3 iGPU with just 4 AVEC. 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 Go/s).