AMD Ryzen 8000G Hawk Point APUs Leaking; USB4 On Some Motherboards?

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TECH NEWS – AMD’s new APU will have significantly improved performance over the 5600G chip.

Benchmark results for the Ryzen 7 8700G chip were leaked a few days ago, and now here’s the Ryzen 5 8500G Hawk Point APU, which scored much better than the Ryzen 5 5600G Cezanne Geekbench results. There is a 36% improvement in single-core performance (1965 points) and an 11% improvement in multi-threaded tests (8768 points). The chip fits on AM5 motherboards, is Zen 4 architecture and the graphics element is based on RDNA 3. However, compared to the two top models (8700G/8600G), the Ryzen 5 8500G and Ryzen 3 8300G are on the A2 die with Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores.

The Ryzen 5 8500G is a 6-core, 12-thread processor with 3.55GHz base and 5GHz boost clock speeds. There is 16MB of L3 and 6MB of L2 cache for the processor. The APU has a Radeon 740M graphics chip with four cores (twice as many as the Radeon 710M) running at 2800 MHz. A Maxsun B650M motherboard and 32GB of DDR5 memory with an unknown clock speed were used for the test. The series is expected to be unveiled by AMD at CES, with a release later this month.

And Benchlife reports that motherboard manufacturers are planning to integrate USB4 into AM5 motherboards designed for AMD Ryzen 8000G APUs. So Gigabyte could release such a board, which shows how far behind AMD is, as Intel already took the necessary steps for the 11th generation processors (three years ago). For example, MSI had to use an add-on card for USB4 support because it was not natively supported. Let’s not forget that Thunderbolt 4 (another name for USB4) is capable of up to 40Gbps (5GB per second!). You can connect multiple devices to one dock, which was not possible with previous generations.

A few months ago, AMD CEO Lisa Su visited several Taiwanese manufacturers to get USB4 support in desktop processors. Asmedia would be responsible for solving Thunderbolt 4 support on AMD platforms. Since then, there’s been silence, but that could be broken by Gigabyte’s Aorus B650 Elite X AX Ice motherboard. The manufacturer has already released the AGESA 1.1.0.1a BIOS firmware to support Hawk Point APUs on AM5 motherboards.

Source: WCCFTech, WCCFTech

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