AMD has announced that its 7nm Ryzen 5000G series APUs, codename Cezanne, are now shipping to OEMs with availability for the DIY/retail market coming later this year. AMD announced three primary 65W models that span from four Zen 3 cores up to eight cores, accompanied by Vega graphics that span from 6 graphics cores to eight. AMD hasn't shared pricing for these processors yet — that information will likely come during the retail launch later this year. In either case, we are sure that these new chips will rank on our list of Best CPUs and Best Cheap CPUs.
Compared to Intel's Core i7-10700, AMD claims the chips are 38% faster in content creation, 35% faster in productivity, and are up to 2.17X faster in gaming, which comes courtesy of the built-in Radeon Vega graphics engine. AMD also provided plenty of benchmark comparisons, albeit against Intel's 10th-gen processors and not the Rocket Lake chips that come with the more potent UHD Graphics 750 engine powered by 32 EUs with the Xe architecture.
As with all Zen 3 processors, the Ryzen 5000G chips step up to a faster DDR4-3200 interface, which will certainly help the integrated GPU in gaming performance. However, AMD has stuck with the PCIe 3.0 interface found on all of its current-gen APUs. The chips will find their way into 500-series and some 400-series motherboards, though support on the latter will vary by vendor. As expected, AMD also released three low-power 35W variants with lower base frequencies to fit inside more restricted power/thermal environments and smaller builds.
Given the ongoing graphics card shortages, these newly revamped APUs are a welcome sight for the gaming market. That is if AMD can keep them in stock, of course. In either case, AMD's willingness to bring these APUs to market is laudable given that its previous-gen Ryzen 4000 series APUs only landed in the OEM/pre-built market. Luckily, we grabbed the Ryzen 7 4750G from the grey market so we could take it for a spin. As you would imagine, these new 5000G chips will also make their way to these quasi-retail outlets soon, too, but it won't be too long before we can find them in the normal retail haunts.
AMD Ryzen 5000G G-Series Specifications
| CPU | Cores/Threads | Frequency (Up to) Boost / Base | Graphics Cores | Graphics Frequency | TDP | Cache |
| Ryzen 7 5700G | 8 / 16 | 3.8 / 4.6 | RX Vega 8 | 2100 MHz | 65W | 20 MB |
| Ryzen 7 4700G | 8 / 16 | 3.6 / 4.4 | RX Vega 8 | 2100 MHz | 65W | 12 MB |
| Ryzen 5 5600G | 6 / 12 | 3.9 / 4.4 | RX Vega 7 | 1900 MHz | 65W | 19 MB |
| Ryzen 5 4600G | 6 / 12 | 3.7 / 4.2 | RX Vega 7 | 1900 MHz | 65W | 11 MB |
| Ryzen 3 5300G | 4 / 8 | 4.0 / 4.2 | RX Vega 6 | 1700 MHz | 65W | 10 MB |
| Ryzen 3 4300G | 4 / 8 | 3.8 / 4.0 | RX Vega 6 | 1700 MHz | 65W | 6 MB |
The Ryzen 5000G lineup spans from four to eight cores, with the key addition being the Zen 3 architecture that provides a 19% IPC uplift over the Zen 2 architecture used in the previous-gen Ryzen 4000G models. We also see higher clock rates across the lineup, with peak boost speeds now weighing in at 4.6 GHz for the eight-core 5700G, whereas the previous-gen models topped out at 4.4 GHz. We also see that base clocks have increased by 200 MHz for all 65W chips.
The Zen 3 architecture also grants higher L3 cache capacities than we've seen with AMD's past APUs. For instance, the eight-core 16-thread Ryzen 7 5700G now has 20MB of L3 cache compared to its eight-core predecessor that came with 12MB. These are the natural byproducts of the Zen 3 architecture and should benefit general iGPU performance, too.
AMD continues to pair the chips with the Vega graphics architecture, just as it did with the 4000-series APUs, but AMD reworked the architecture for its last go-round — the reworked RX Vega graphics delivered up to ~60% percent more performance per compute unit (CU) than its predecessors, which equated to more graphics performance from fewer CU. We aren't sure if AMD has made a similar adjustment this time around, but we've reached out for more detail. We do know that the graphics units run at the same frequencies for each model.
All of the chips come with a 45W to 65W configurable TDP (cTDP), broadening the range of potential uses for these higher-end Ryzen 5000G APUs. If you need to dip below the 45W range, you would look at the GE Models below.
| CPU | Cores/Threads | Frequency (Up to) Boost / Base | Graphics Cores | Graphics Frequency | TDP | Cache |
| Ryzen 7 5700GE | 8 / 16 | 3.2 / 4.6 | RX Vega 8 | 2000 MHz | 35W | 20 MB |
| Ryzen 7 4700GE | 8 / 16 | 3.1 / 4.3 | RX Vega 8 | 2000 MHz | 35W | 12 MB |
| Ryzen 5 5600GE | 6 / 12 | 3.4 / 4.4 | RX Vega 7 | 1900 MHz | 35W | 19 MB |
| Ryzen 5 4600GE | 6 / 12 | 3.3 / 4.2 | RX Vega 7 | 1900 MHz | 35W | 11 MB |
| Ryzen 3 5300GE | 4 / 8 | 3.6 / 4.2 | RX Vega 6 | 1700 MHz | 35W | 10 MB |
| Ryzen 3 4300GE | 4 / 8 | 3.5 / 4.0 | RX Vega 6 | 1700 MHz | 35W | 6 MB |
Here we can see the new 35W models, which aren't as exciting for regular users but are a boon for HTPC and SFF enthusiasts. As expected, base clocks are lower than the 65W models, but that's needed to squeeze into the 35W TDP envelope. However, AMD retains the high single-threaded boosts, which is impressive.
AMD Ryzen 5000G Performance Claims
AMD presented plenty of comparisons to Intel's Core i7-10700 and the Core i5-10600, but bear in mind that these are Intel's previous-gen Comet Lake processors. That means these results are not representative of performance with the 11th-gen Rocket Lake chips that come with a significantly upgraded Xe UHD Graphics 750 engine that's powered by 32 EUs. As per usual, take any vendor-provided benchmarks with the requisite grain of salt. The test notes are at the end of the album.
We've already seen listings of the Pro variants for commercial systems, but there are very few details about systems that will come with the consumer Cezanne chips. We expect that several vendors will announce new pre-built systems with the APUs over the coming weeks. We'll update as we learn more.
