AMD Preps Ryzen 7 8700F & Ryzen 5 8400F “iGPU-Less” Desktop APUs For AM5 Platforms

22.03.2024 - 11:21 / wccftech.com / Hassan Mujtaba

AMD is preparing two new Ryzen 8000 APUs for the AM5 platform which include the Ryzen 7 8700F & the Ryzen 5 8400F.

AMD Ryzen 7 8700F & Ryzen 5 8500F Desktop APUs Coming To AM5 Desktop Platform Minus The iGPU

The new AMD Ryzen 8000 APUs were revealed during the AI PC Summit event in China where the company presented its full lineup of mainstream and budget-oriented desktop CPU options. The CPUs portfolio covers the older AM4 parts such as Ryzen 3000, Ryzen 5000XT & the Ryzen 5000GT chips including the newer Ryzen 8000 APU family. Do note that AMD also confirmed its RDNA 3+ GPU architecture during the same event that we talked about over here.

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The new products listed include the Ryzen 7 8700F and the Ryzen 5 8400F. Based on what we know about the "F" SKUs, both AMD & Intel use it similarly for SKUs that have their iGPUs disabled. The red team recently introduced its Ryzen 5 7500F CPU which lacked the RDNA 2 iGPU which is utilized by the rest of the Ryzen 7000 chips.

Based on that, we can expect the AMD Ryzen 7 8700F and the Ryzen 5 8400F to feature an iGPU-less design though they would still carry the same monolithic Zen 4 architecture as found on the Hawk Point (AM5) desktop APUs. In terms of specifications, the Ryzen 7 8700F can be very close to the Ryzen 7 8700G, featuring 8 cores, 16 threads, 16 MB of L3 cache, and a TDP of 65W whereas the Ryzen 5 8400F can be similar to the Ryzen 5 8500G with 6 cores, 12 threads, 16 MB of L3 cache.

It is possible that AMD might stick with 6 cores and 6 threads for its Ryzen 5 8400F to make it an even more competitive budget product since they have done that in the past too but is the more unlikely option of the two configurations. Clock speeds will only be determined once AMD reveals these SKUs fully and it also looks like that these two SKUs might be limited to just China (APAC) for now with global availability in the future (possibly).

AMD Ryzen 8000G Desktop APUs:

APU NameArchitectureCore / ThreadsClocks (Base / Max)L3 CacheGPUTDPPrice Ryzen 7 8700G (PRO)Zen 4 / RDNA 3 (Phoenix 1)8 / 164.20 / 5.1 GHz16 MBRadeon 780M (12 CU)65W$329 US Ryzen 7 8700FZen 48 / 16TBD16 MBN/A65WTBD Ryzen 5 8600G (PRO)Zen 4 / RDNA 3 (Phoenix 1)6 / 124.35 / 5.0 GHz16 MBRadeon 760M (8 CU)65W$229 US Ryzen 5 8500G (PRO)Zen 4 / RDNA 3 (Phoenix 2)6 / 12 (4 Zen4C + 2 Zen 4)3.55 / 5.0 GHz16 MBRadeon 740M (4 CU)65W$179 US Ryzen 5 8400FZen 46 / 12 (4 Zen4C + 2 Zen 4)TBD16 MBN/A65WTBD Ryzen 3 8300G (PRO)Zen 4 / RDNA 3 (Phoenix 2)4 / 8 (3 Zen 4C + 1 Zen 4)3.45 / 4.9 GHz8 MBRadeon 740M (4 CU)65WOEM Only Ryzen 7 8700GE PROZen 4 / RDNA 3 (Phoenix 1)8 / 163.65 / 5.1 GHz16 MBRadeon 780M (12 CU)35WOEM Only Ryzen 5 8600GE PROZen 4