AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
The AMD APU makes a more-than-welcome return for Chris Szewczyk.
SPECS
Socket: AM4
Arch: 64-bit, Zen 3
Cores: Eight
Threads: 16
Process: TSMC 7nm
Clock: 3.8GHz (boost 4.6GHz)
Cache: 512KB L1, 4MB L2, 16MB L3
Memory: DDR4-3200, two channel
GPU: RX Vega 8 Graphics
Compute units: Eight
GPU cores: 512
PCIe: v3.0
TDP: 65W
This colourised image of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G’s silicon could make great wall art.
AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series of CPUs has been well received, though, like every other manufacturer of CPUs and graphics cards, AMD has been affected by wider semiconductor market issues. Limited supply meant that production priority was given to the high-end chips in both the red team’s CPU and GPU stacks. That means we haven’t seen any affordable Zen 3-based CPUs – at least not in the retail market.