The narrow performance gap between the Ryzen AI 5 435G and Ryzen 5 8600G demonstrates the power efficiency Zen 5 brings to the table. However, it should be interesting to see the Ryzen AI 5 435G's full potential outside of a single benchmark. Luckily, we won't have to wait long, since Ryzen AI 400 desktop systems should start hitting the retail market in the second quarter of the year.
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DS426 Even L3 cache is cut in half on the 435G, so they really aren't direct siblings. I'm wondering if there will be a faster Ryzen AI 5 model that's actually a more direct successor to the 8600G, i.e. less cut-down. Reply
ludwig56 There are quite a few errors in the specs for the R5 8600G (Phoenix), as it doesn't have Zen4c cores. It only has 6/12 regular Zen4 cores, albeit with reduced L3 cache. The 8500G (Phoenix 2) does have both Zen4 and Zen4c cores, in addition to the Radeon 740M, which is similar to a rehashed version of the Ryzen 5 435G. Reply
usertests DS426 said: Even L3 cache is cut in half on the 435G, so they really aren't direct siblings. I'm wondering if there will be a faster Ryzen AI 5 model that's actually a more direct successor to the 8600G, i.e. less cut-down. The Ryzen AI 5 440G gets 3+3 cores and 16 MiB L3 instead of 2+4 and 8 MiB. I don't care for Geekbench, but the 440G should be close in performance. On graphics, it's 8 CUs RDNA3 vs. 4 CUs RDNA3.5 for the 435G/440G. The current top Ryzen AI 7 450G based on the full Krackan die gets 4+4 cores, 16 MiB, and 8 CUs RDNA3.5. That chip will be superior to the 8600G, and possibly do better than expected against the 8700G, since the 8700G's 8 cores and 12 CUs may be more power and bandwidth constrained. AMD needs to release Strix Point if they want to actually dethrone the 8700G. Anything based on the Ryzen AI 9 365 should already be a little faster than the 8700G, with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with the full die delivering more substantial improvements. Even if that doesn't happen, hopefully these Krackan desktop APUs end up being pretty cheap. They will certainly have decent CPU performance. Reply
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