We Found Problems: AMD Ryzen 5 8600G & R7 8700G APU Benchmarks & Review
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This review of the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G benchmarks performance vs. a cheap CPU and GPU at the same price points (roughly) and looks at viability of the R5 8600G & R7 8700G APUs as SFF/HTPC options or just a cheap gaming component. The new 8000-series AMD Ryzen APUs get tested here for gaming performance and framerate, power consumption, CPU-only performance, efficiency, and frequency. Although we already know they're not strictly "worth it" as cheap gaming parts if the only goal is the cheapest possible combination of a CPU and GPU, they still have valid use cases. If AMD ever adds VRAM to APUs in a big way, it's possible they compete with cheap graphics cards in the future. But we'll see. Testing is different from our normal CPU reviews: We have a combination of memory scaling tests with DDR5-6400 vs. DDR5-6000 and DDR5-5600, but also a mix of GPUs or IGPs. As a result, a lot of the data is not comparable to other prior reviews, especially with the GPU swapping. We're also spending a lot of time on STAPM power throttling behavior.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - AMD Ryzen 5 8600G & R7 8700G Review
02:43 - AMD's Statement & But WHY?
06:00 - AMD 8600G & 8700G Specs & Prices
08:38 - ASRock's Broken-Ass BIOS
10:42 - Frequency Drops & All-Core
11:57 - Single-Core Frequency Boosting
12:36 - Power Consumption (All-Core, Default)
13:37 - Power Efficiency (Default)
14:00 - Test Methodology Notes & STAPM
16:55 - CPU-Only Benchmarks First (If Upgrading to a dGPU)
17:20 - Blender 3D Rendering Benchmarks
18:24 - File Compression Benchmarks
19:08 - File Decompression Benchmarks
19:41 - Game Benchmarking
20:23 - Baldur's Gate 3 - 1080p, Low Commentary, & 1440p
23:32 - Rainbow Six Siege Benchmarks - 1080p & 1440p
25:25 - Starfield Benchmarks
26:08 - F1 2023 Benchmarks
28:13 - FFXIV 8700G & 8600G Benchmarks
29:46 - Conclusion
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Steve Burke: Writing, Testing, Host, Editing
Patrick Lathan: Testing
Mike Gaglione: Testing, Editing
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