OEM Ryzen 5000G Launch


AMD have just announced their 5000 Series of APUs (Basically CPUs with fairly powerful integrated graphics), and although as of now they have only released the skews for OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), they have said they plan to release retail version later this year. These new APUs contain up to 8 Zen 3 Cores with 8 Vega Compute units. This allows for an incredible performance uplift from the last proper retail APU release (The 3000G series) which were equipped with up to 4 Zen+ Cores, and older, slower integrated Vega compute units. Once similar chips have become available for retail, they could be a great option for cheaper gaming rigs, or situations such as extravagant home surveillance, where  affordable computing power is important, but space cannot be wasted on a discrete graphics card.


Unlike the current retail 'Vermeer' processors (Ryzen 5000 series) featuring a chiplets based design, these APUs feature a monolithic die design. They seem very similar to the Ryzen 5000 mobile processors, except with a higher TDP, allowing for the use of slightly lower quality silicon. Hopefully this could allow lower costs and better availability? Anyway, lets get into the specs.



Specs

6 different models have been released for OEMs at the moment, the Ryzen 7 5700G, 7 5700GE, 5 5600G, 5 5600GE, 3 5300G, and 3 5300GE. The 'G' parts have a 65W TDP, and the 'GE' parts have a 35W TDP and slightly lower clock speeds. Unfortunately, these APUs don't support PCIe 4.0 lanes from the CPU, suggesting retail versions may be incapable of taking advantage of new PCIe Gen 4 SSDs, and their phenomenal read and write speeds. They are, however compatible with 500 series AMD boards, and select 400 series boards, enabling them to be used cheaply, or as an upgrade to an older system. 

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As you can see, the higher clock speeds of the 5300G over the Ryzen 3 3100, along with the newer Zen 3 cores, bodes well for gaming on the cheap, as these APUs should have astounding compute (and hopefully graphics) performance. Hopefully the retail parts coming out (hopefully) later this year perform just as well, or even better!



Performance 

AMD have released some performance graphs relating to the compute performance and graphics performance of some of the new chips. Let's take a look at some of the graphs they've shown us!



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The gaming performance of both the compute and graphics sections of these APUs looks very exciting, as well as the performance in application benchmarks, suggesting great performance in the surveillance situation mentioned earlier, and beginners / compact + quiet PCs. 



Conclusion 

Altogether, this launch looks promising. Although AMD hasn't announced a date for the launch of their retail parts, they have promised that they're coming, so hopefully all you consumers out there will be able to get your hands on them before the year's out. AMD are likely to begin releasing them once their supply has improved, so they can actually produce enough chips to sell. These APUs should provide some exciting opportunities for a variety of use cases, and so I hope you're all looking forward to the next (hopefully retail!) launch as much as I am. 

Thank you for reading, and goodbye for now!

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