AMD Ryzen 7 8700G appears on Geekbench

In early December, ECSM divulged that AMD is poised to launch the Ryzen 8000G APU series, introducing the Phoenix processor to the desktop market. This lineup includes the Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 5 8600G, and Ryzen 5 8500G. Notably, the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G are equipped with Phoenix cores, while the Ryzen 5 8500G utilizes the Phoenix 2 core. There is theoretical speculation about a Ryzen 3 8300G, though it may not initially be available for retail, and all models are equipped with RDNA3 architecture integrated graphics.

Recently, the highest-end Ryzen 7 8700G was spotted on Geekbench, where it achieved an impressive score of 5255 in the ONNX DirectML test. The test setup included a Gigabyte X670E AORUS MASTER motherboard paired with 32GB of RAM. Further, it confirmed the Ryzen 7 8700G’s specifications as an octa-core, sixteen-thread processor with a base frequency of 4.2GHz, a 16M L3 cache, and equipped with a Radeon 780M integrated GPU based on the RDNA 3 architecture.

Data comparisons from Wccftech reveal that the Ryzen 7 8700G marginally outperforms the mobile processor Ryzen 9 7940HS (scoring 5174) and significantly surpasses Intel’s new Ultra 7 155H (scoring 4408) with its notably improved integrated graphics performance. The Ryzen 7 8700G also excels in ONNX CPU benchmarking over the Ryzen 9 7940HS. However, it remains unclear if it is equipped with the latest Ryzen AI “XDNA” NPU. The newest mobile Ryzen 8040 series processors do feature this, and compared to the Ryzen 7040 series, the NPU performance of the 8040 series has increased from 10 TOPS to 16 TOPS. This enhancement boosts generative AI workload performance by 40%, exemplified in tasks like Llama 2 and Vision Models.

Previously, most motherboard manufacturers have released the latest BIOS versions supporting the Ryzen 8000G series APUs. Notably, a few manufacturers, including ASRock, have announced that their AMD AM5 series motherboards support single 64GB DDR5 memory modules. This means the maximum memory capacity with four DIMM slots could reach up to 256GB. Screenshots have shown the Ryzen 7 8700G supporting 256GB of memory on the X670E Taichi motherboard.

AMD has confirmed the launch of the Ryzen 8040 series mobile processors in the first quarter of 2024, with the specific release date yet to be determined. This launch is expected to coincide with updates to the AM5 and AM4 desktop processors.