AMD announces Ryzen 4000-series 'Renoir' CPUs with integrated graphics

AMD completed their line-up of Zen 2 processors today with the announcement of the Ryzen 4000 G series. These are desktop chips with integrated graphics, using the same designs as the Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' mobile processors but scaled up to take advantage of the greater power budgets on desktop motherboards. The new lineup will debut in pre-built OEM systems first, with DIY availability coming later, and replaces the venerable Ryzen 3200G and 3400G.

The new CPUs are the Ryzen 7 4700G, Ryzen 5 4600G and Ryzen 3 4300G, all of which are rated for a 65W TDP. This is the first time that AMD has announced a Ryzen 7 APU, topping out at Ryzen 5 in the last generation. There are also 35W variants of the three new CPUs that use the GE suffix - the 4700GE, 4600GE and 4300GE - which operate at lower frequencies to achieve their tighter power targets. Here's how all six models compare in terms of the core specs:

AMD hasn't offered Ryzen 4000 G chips for benchmarking yet, but they do have the usual crop of content creation and gaming results to share with today's announcement. Notably, AMD insisted that its testing employees had been unable to source 10th generation Intel Core processors, so instead it's comparing its latest with Intel's ninth-gen CPUs instead - and it's not the first time that it's used this excuse.

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