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There are three new 4000G APUs to cover in today’s announcement, each available in two configurations. The flagship model is the 8-core / 16-wire Ryzen 7 4700G, which has a 3.6GHz base clock and a 4.4GHz (single-core) boost clock. These core / thread counts and frequencies are identical to the Ryzen 7 3700X desktop chip. Being an APU, the 4700G also has graphics cores, eight of them to be precise, with a maximum frequency of 2100MHz.
Next in line is the Ryzen 5 4600G 6-core / 12-wire, with a base clock of 3.7GHz and a boost clock of 4.2GHz, which is largely equivalent to the Ryzen 5 3600 CPU. The 4600G has 7 graphics cores operating at speeds up to 1900MHz.
The range is completed with the 4-core / 8-wire Ryzen 3 4300G. With a base clock of 3.8GHz and a boost clock of 4.0GHz, performance should land somewhere between the Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X. It has 6 graphics cores that operate at 1700MHz.
All three chips, in this configuration, have a listed TDP of 65W, which is the same as equivalent Ryzen 3000 CPUs. (It’s worth noting that this doesn’t really have much to do with how much energy they will actually consume.) Each APU also comes in a “GE” flavor, which is a low-powered version rated at 35W, with significantly lower frequencies across the board, but there are no changes beyond that.
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On paper, these new APUs appear extremely competitive. The 3000G chips they replace struggle in comparison to even budget CPUs. The jump to Zen 2 will only be a huge improvement, as clock-by-clock these cores are almost 15 percent stronger than Zen +. However, the added cores and threads of the two high-end chips make them an attractive choice for someone looking to build a workstation-like PC on a tight budget. In fact, they change who we would recommend even considering buying an APU in the first place.
While the 3400G is a decent single-chip solution for people on an extremely tight budget, it doesn’t leave much room for upgrading your PC in the future, especially when it comes to gaming, as anything beyond that would be wasted. budget GPU options. However, with the 4700G and 4600G, you could build a PC without shelling out money on a graphics card, and then add just about any discrete GPU you want in the future to turn your PC into an extremely efficient gaming platform. The Ryzen 7 3700X, which is largely equivalent to the 4700G, can be combined with any high-end GPU on the market.
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As for the performance of integrated GPUs, things look extremely promising. Assuming adequate cooling, the 4700G’s 8-core GPU should achieve 2.1TFLOP, which is 50 percent more raw processing performance than the 3400G can muster. That should be more than enough to play e-sports titles at 1080p, and it almost reached the minimum specification for Death Stranding.
One thing worth noting is that, without dedicated video memory, the performance of the built-in GPU is tied to the speed and amount of system RAM it has. Ryzen CPU performance is already quite reactive to RAM speed, but you’ll probably want to pair the 4700G with 16GB of decent 3600MHz DDR4 RAM, or very low-latency 3200MHz memory. This will give the GPU a great opportunity to run more demanding games, but it will also increase the cost of its overall construction compared to slower RAM.
Of course, this is all “on paper”; We will have to judge for ourselves how well these new APUs hold up in the real world. The 4000G series should start appearing on pre-built desktop computers next month. We don’t have a date for a retail launch yet, but we hope it won’t be far behind. The other thing we are waiting for is pricing, which will be key given to price-conscious consumers that APUs tend to target. If we had to guess, we’d suggest a starting point of around $ 140 for the 4300G, stretching to around $ 300 for the 4700G.
