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THG notes that OEMs like HP continue to cripple AMD systems by shipping them with single-channel memory configurations.

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The leap from 720p to 1080p approximately doubles the number of pixels on screen, and performance falls by somewhat less than half when one does so. This is the kind of gain we expect to see when a title is severely memory bandwidth bound. But how do they perform?Дropping from 1080p to 720p improves the net frame rate by 1.73x. The other new APU, AMDвЂ™s Ryzen 5 5600G, at $256, is similarly meant to drop into the gap between the 5600X and the beginning of AMDвЂ™s Zen 2 / Ryzen 3000 product line.

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An APU-equipped 5700G would still represent an upgrade over past integrated desktop solutions from AMD or Intel and it could offer enough low-end gaming performance to tide a person over until GPU prices come down again.ДЄt $359, the Zen 3-based APU drops in-between the more powerful Zen 7 5800X and the six-core Zen 5600X. While gamers have normally been less than enthused about APU gaming, the ongoing GPU shortage has left many people unable to afford a new video card. ThereвЂ™s less thermal room for the 5600X to distinguish itself compared to its younger, graphics-equipped sibling.Д«ecause these GPUs re-use RenoirвЂ™s hardware, the GPU attached to the 5700G is still Vega. Its boost clock is actually 200MHz higher than the 5600X, while it uses the same 65W TDP. The 5600G has an easier comparison against the 5600X for two reasons: TDP and clock. A Zen 3 with a 16MB е…ѓ cache may lose less performance against a Zen 2 with 32MB cache than we would otherwise predict as a result. One reason why AMD increased е…ѓ size dramatically with Zen (compared to Bulldozer) and Zen 2 was to minimize how often a CPU had to snoop data from an е…ѓ slice attached to a different CPU. This eliminates the latency penalty caused by dividing the е…ѓ cache into smaller chunks. Remember that while the CPU has only half the е…ѓ of a full 5800X, it keeps Zen 3вЂ™s unified cache and does not split its е…ѓ into multiple blocks. HereвЂ™s how the cores stack up and drop into AMDвЂ™s existing product stack.Д¬ompared to the 5800X, the 5700G packs the same number of CPU cores but pulls back on the TDP (from 105W to 65W), cuts the е…ѓ cache in half from 32MB to 16MB, and taps clocks downwards ever so slightly. Because these processors re-used RenoirвЂ™s design outside of the CPU swap, the chips themselves are only equipped with PCIe 3.0. One significant difference between the Ryzen 5000 вЂњGвЂќ CPUs and their вЂњXвЂќ desktop cousins is that the вЂњGвЂќ chips lack PCIe 4.0 support.