If you’ve wanted integrated graphics with an AMD Ryzen 5000 chip, now’s your chance. On Tuesday, AMD announced the Ryzen 5000 G-Series desktop processors, which come with a Radeon GPU on board.
The chips arrive amid the ongoing shortage for dedicated PC graphics cards. So perhaps the timing couldn’t be better. According to AMD, the Ryzen 5000 G-series is capable of running games at 1080p. You can also edit photos and videos, and steam 4K content in HDR. But thanks to the integrated GPU on board, you don’t need to spend extra to buy a separate graphics card, which have ballooned in price.
Unfortunately, for now, the Ryzen 5000 G-series is only arriving through pre-built desktop rigs, which will launch in May. PC builders will have to wait until later in the year for when AMD starts selling the chips individually through retail channels.
The Ryzen 5000 G-series spans six different models, all built with the same 7-nanometer Zen 3 architecture. However, the chip line only scales up from 4 cores to 8 cores. (Sorry, there’s no 12-core or 16-core beast here.)
The top processor is the Ryzen 7 5700G, which is slightly less powerful than the $449 Ryzen 7 5800X. You get the same 8-core, 16-thread count. But the max boost clock speed goes down slightly from 4.7GHz to 4.6GHz while the L3 cache has also been dropped from 32MB to 16MB.
The other notable downgrade to the 5000 G-series is how the chips use the slower PCIe 3.0 interface instead of PCIe 4.0. Each chip also comes with a lower-powered GE variant, which basically halves the TDP draw and lowers the base clock speed. All the processors support the AM4 socket, so they should work with X570 and B550 motherboards.
The big question is the capabilities around the Radeon integrated graphics on board. The spec sheets only reveal the GPU scales up from 6 to 8 cores, with clock speeds that range from 1700 to 2000MHz. Stay tuned for our reviews.
