AMD Introduces Ryzen 8000G Series & Even New Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Introduces Ryzen 8000G Series & Even New Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs

AMD used CES 2024 to announce their new Ryzen 8000G series desktop processors and even introducing some new Ryzen 5000 series SKUs. Here are the key details from today's AMD Ryzen announcements while awaiting hardware for Linux testing.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-8000g-series

[entropy]

The new AMD Ryzen 8000G series desktop processors are up to 8 cores / 16 thread Zen 5 processors

Zen 4, no?

[Mathias]

I wonder, who is the target audience for a 1080p on low gaming system with a $329 processor? It will be more expensive then PS5/SeriesX which are marketed as 4k devices...

[fitzie]

Zen 4, no?

yes, these are zen 4, not zen 5. Michael

[Michael]

Zen 4, no?

Typo, fixed. Thanks.

[mihau]

So are they releasing Vega chips in 2024, having already stopped officially supporting Vega in 2023?
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[sophisticles]

For me an interesting test would be between the 8700G and the R9 7900.

The 8700G is 8C/16T with a more powerful iGPU + hardware AI but the 7900 has 12C/24T with a decent iGPU and no hardware AI.

In Windows workloads that can benefit for the AI acceleration, like the applications mentioned, I wonder if the 4 extra cores would be enough to offset the dedicated hardware of the 8700G.

Of course you could always just buy an 8300G and buy a cheap dGPU that supports hardware AI.

[kruger]

I wonder, who is the target audience for a 1080p on low gaming system with a $329 processor? It will be more expensive then PS5/SeriesX which are marketed as 4k devices...

but often only at 30FPS. AMD benchmarks say 60-120FPS depending on the title. You also have to factor in heavy discounted games on the Steam vs way higher console game prices.

[Kabbone]

I wonder, who is the target audience for a 1080p on low gaming system with a $329 processor? It will be more expensive then PS5/SeriesX which are marketed as 4k devices...

The same as who had the previous generations. I have a 5700G because I played very casually some eSports titles. Everything I played worked alright.
Before it was said, that the 8700G should be on par with a 1060, so I would assume you are not bound to low details necessarily

[NeoMorpheus]

So are they releasing Vega chips in 2024, having already stopped officially supporting Vega in 2023?
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Which one is Vega?

I thought it was RDNA2.