AMD officially releases Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F

Rumors surrounding AMD’s Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F have been circulating for several days, and AMD has now officially unveiled these two processors. The ‘F’ suffix indicates that these are derivatives of the Ryzen 8000G series, with the integrated graphics removed, akin to the previous Ryzen 5 7500F.

The Ryzen 7 8700F, as the name suggests, is essentially the Ryzen 7 8700G sans integrated graphics. It retains its 8 cores and 16 threads, boasting 8MB of L2 cache and 16MB of L3 cache. The core frequency has been slightly reduced from 4.2~5.1GHz to 4.1~5.0GHz. Despite the removal of the integrated graphics, the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) remains, supporting Ryzen AI.

The Ryzen 5 8400F, initially thought to be a variant of the Ryzen 5 8500G without integrated graphics, is in fact derived from the Ryzen 5 8600G, as evidenced by its core size of 178mm². It features 6 Zen 4 cores, with 6MB of L2 cache and 16MB of L3 cache, and has a base frequency of 4.2GHz with a boost frequency of 4.7GHz, which is somewhat lower than the 4.3~5.0GHz of the Ryzen 5 8600G. Additionally, it has also dispensed with the NPU.

Both new processors maintain a TDP of 65W. Utilizing the Phoenix core, they do not support PCIe 5.0, unlike the Ryzen 7000 processors. Currently, the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F are exclusively shipped to the global OEM market, with no immediate plans from AMD to release them to the retail sector.