Review: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Conclusion

Introduced in OEM form in April this year, AMD's decision to release two Ryzen 5000G Series chips for the DIY market is a sage move.

Desktop Ryzen 7 5700G is built using eight of the latest latest Zen 3 CPU cores allied to Radeon Graphics from the Vega generation. That familiar recipe is already in existence for the high-performance laptop market under a number of chips assembling beneath the Cezanne architecture banner.

Effectively a laptop chip repackaged into the desktop AM4 form factor, Ryzen 7 5700G naturally does well on the CPU side and offers basic gameplay credentials from the iGPU, besting Intel's best by up to 2x.

Going down the Cezanne route does have minor downsides, however, as the SoC runs off PCIe 3.0 and chips carry half the L3 cache present on the latest tranche of full-on desktop Ryzens.

Priced at around £329, the Ryzen 7 5700G's qualities mean its target market is niche. Power users tend to run with discrete video cards, but such is the state of play with GPU stock shortages, having a capable Ryzen chip with a decent IGP works on multiple fronts right now. Enthusiasts can choose this chip and wait for premium graphics cards to become more affordable.

Primed for high-quality SFF and HTPC builds first and foremost, the arrival of Ryzen 7 5700G to retail offers DIY builders yet more choice and represents a good decision from AMD.

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

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The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G will be available on August 5 from Scan Computers.

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