It looks like some people already have Ryzen 8000G series APUs on their hands. Two of these desktop APUs have been now discovered on Geekbench: the 8-core Ryzen 7 8700G and the 6-core Ryzen 5 8600G.

The Geekbench entries (Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G) shared by @Olrak29 offer the first glimpse of the performance these chips will offer. AMD has already disclosed that the Ryzen 7 8700G APU has a base clock of 4.2 GHz and a turbo clock of up to 5.1 GHz, making it the fastest clock speed of any desktop APU AMD has ever launched. The Ryzen 5 8600G has two less Zen4 cores, but it compensates with a higher base frequency of 4.3 GHz and a peak clock speed of 5.0 GHz.

8700G https://t.co/0fVoQNgioZ
8600G https://t.co/zpuD4xCZSJ

— Everest (@Olrak29_) January 23, 2024

Both APUs were tested with Geekbench 6, but it's worth mentioning that the 8700G uses a newer version (6.2), while the 8600G uses version 6.0. Both APUs were tested on an AMD B650 board with DDR5-6400 memory. Compared to their Ryzen 5000G series counterparts, the single-core performance of the Ryzen 8000G series APUs was 30%-37% higher. In multi-core performance, the gains are even more significant, with the Ryzen 5 8600G beating the Ryzen 5 5600G by 49%, while the Ryzen 7 8700G was 64% faster than the Ryzen 7 5700G.

However, another significant element of these APUs isn't included in these Geekbench entries. That section is the graphics subsystem, which is now based on the RDNA 3 architecture. Unfortunately, it seems we'll have to wait a little longer before we see the performance of the new integrated graphics. AMD will release the Ryzen 8000G series on January 31st, with the 8700G priced at $329 and the 8600G at $229.

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