Stefan Mileschin

AMD has had much success this past year with their fully redesigned Zen CPU core. First, they gave us Ryzen and our first look at AMD’s building block technique which uses CPU Complexes (CCX), the cornerstone of their design, and the Infinity Fabric which ties these “blocks” together. This approach allows AMD to easily “stack” these four core, eight thread CCX together to increase core count. Take the Threadripper CPU with as many as 16 cores and 32 threads or as in this case, attach the CCX to a Radeon Vega graphics core and renew their APU lineup.

Today I have the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and the Ryzen 3 2200G on the test bench. These are AMD’s all-new, revised APUs based on the Zen Architecture and Radeon Graphics processing code-named Raven Ridge. AMD has found through independent research that PCs sold without a discrete graphics card makeup 30% of the market and the addition of an APU of the Ryzen Family would be ideally suited to this segment.

With suggested pricing of $169.00 for the Ryzen 5 2400G and $99.00 for the Ryzen 3 2200G, AMD has set a compelling price point that does not require a dedicated GPU. In AMD’s testing, the Ryzen 5 2400G APU often compares favorably to $75 dedicated GPUs making this APU a wise choice when it comes to performance per dollar for price-conscious consumers. These two APUs will ultimately replace the Ryzen 5 1400 and Ryzen 3 1200 with similar or lower suggested pricing, higher base and boost clocks, and integrated graphics It’s a natural progression.

http://www.overclockers.com/amd-ryze...0g-apu-review/