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With AMD Radeon 780M graphics built-in, the Ryzen 7 8700G boasts the fastest PC processor graphics on the planet so you can play any PC game without spending money on a graphics card. Including AMD Ryzen AI, to deliver the power of personal AI processing.

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Great CPU w/GPU embedded... ensure to install AMD drivers
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Great CPU w/GPU embedded... ensure to install AMD drivers
Works great, just ensure to install AMD Ryzen 8700G drivers from AMD website.Windows (10/11) will install just a default driver that do not enable the embedded GPU.Look at the Windows Task Manager, if you don't see the GPU at the bottom... it is not enabled.Before the AMD drivers installed, just reproducing a 1080HD full screen video made the CPU load jump to ~75% and CPU fan speed to max and noise.After installing AMD drivers... CPU load ~9%, GPU load ~3%... and CPU fan remains at minimum.Look at the screenshot attached, arrow on the bottom left.
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Mike J. Zippro
5.0 out of 5 stars Great processor!
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2024
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I built my own Desktop and used the AMD Ryzen 7 8700-G processor with built in 32 GB GPU for gaming, meaning no need of a separate video card and so far everything is running great. You can still ad a video card later if you want and the GPU is disabled within the CPU if I read that correctly. It sure makes for a less expensive gaming system.

I am extremely happy with this build!
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Daniel
5.0 out of 5 stars Great CPU w/GPU embedded... ensure to install AMD drivers
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024
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Works great, just ensure to install AMD Ryzen 8700G drivers from AMD website.
Windows (10/11) will install just a default driver that do not enable the embedded GPU.
Look at the Windows Task Manager, if you don't see the GPU at the bottom... it is not enabled.
Before the AMD drivers installed, just reproducing a 1080HD full screen video made the CPU load jump to ~75% and CPU fan speed to max and noise.
After installing AMD drivers... CPU load ~9%, GPU load ~3%... and CPU fan remains at minimum.
Look at the screenshot attached, arrow on the bottom left.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great CPU w/GPU embedded... ensure to install AMD drivers
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024
Works great, just ensure to install AMD Ryzen 8700G drivers from AMD website.
Windows (10/11) will install just a default driver that do not enable the embedded GPU.
Look at the Windows Task Manager, if you don't see the GPU at the bottom... it is not enabled.
Before the AMD drivers installed, just reproducing a 1080HD full screen video made the CPU load jump to ~75% and CPU fan speed to max and noise.
After installing AMD drivers... CPU load ~9%, GPU load ~3%... and CPU fan remains at minimum.
Look at the screenshot attached, arrow on the bottom left.
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MaxwellPayne
5.0 out of 5 stars Productivity Processor with Gaming capabilities
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2024
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If gaming is your primary goal then don't buy this CPU. 7800X3D is much better paired with a dedicated GPU.
If you are more into productivity oriented stuff, occasionally play games and you don't want to be financially ruined by the cost of a good GPU then this processor is for you.
I mostly use the PC for programming(JakartaEE, Android, SQL), run several virtual machines simultaneously and this CPU is incredibly fast. Never wished for a faster experience.
As for gaming, it holds its own with 1080P medium settings for most games.
FYI, when playing demanding games, the cpu cooler bundled with it is really noisy. I recommend upgrading to a better air cooler or an AIO liquid cooler.
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Rui Daniel
4.0 out of 5 stars Potente pero grafica integrada con problemas
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2024
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He tenido problemas con la grafica integrada, asigne 4gb de mis 16gb de ram y con eso he querido jugar o hacer stream y se me ha crasheado por error en la tarjeta integrada, incluso si no juego o hago stream y solo me dedique al excel he tenido ese inconveniente( no quiere decir que esto le ocurrira a usted, tal vez asigné demasiada ram y pude haber colocado menos y no se presentaba el problema). Mi tarjeta madre es una b650 gigabyte aorus elite ax v2 por si las dudas.
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Josh Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculously Powerful!
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024
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I tested many different games and was pleasantly surprised. only two games that were basically unplayable on were HALO Infinite and Starfield.

MW3 on recommended settings with AMD FSR 3.0: 80-90 FPS
Fortnite on low settings: 60-80 FPS
Valorant: Low - 150FPS / Medium - 130 FPS / High - 125FPS
R6 - Ultra Settings - 91FPS
Minecraft - Maxed Settings - 200-300FPS (jumps a lot)
Rocket League - every setting on high quality: 80-105FPS
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Michael Robinson
1.0 out of 5 stars Anemic for the money
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024
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Better off getting a 7800(), 7900() or 7950() if you want to do anything other than use the APU. The AI capability of this chip is over exaggerated. Good luck with returns and getting your funds back.
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Bellfazair
5.0 out of 5 stars Who wants a gaming computer in one CPU!
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2024
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With a GPU that is roughly 20% as powerful as the RTX4060Ti this is not going to get you into 4K gaming. 1080P however is a different story. The power output of this APU is roughly 4.5TFLOPS while the 4060Ti is about 22TFLOPS at FP32 and the PS5 stands in at 10.2TFLOPS. Where this APU stands out above the rest is that with a power draw at only 65 watts you can play most games at 1080P on low to mid settings and with a range of 32 to 65FPS. That being said this APU is perfect for making Sub 3L size compact computers with mini ITX motherboards on air cooling that are outstanding performers for younger kids or adults that are light gamers. Additionally if you have more than just a few kids this is a cost effective way to make multiple, "capable" computers very cheaply.
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Derry
5.0 out of 5 stars Good cpu
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024
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Good cpu I test out without gpu and still running smoothly on 1080p
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abraham
5.0 out of 5 stars Increíble
Reviewed in Mexico on July 13, 2024
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Hasta ahora va de maravilla de super lujo, no tengo problemas de ningún tipo, solo que la pasta termina vino ya amarilla aunque aún funcional por ahora, yo lo recomiendo completamente
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fred E
5.0 out of 5 stars not great for gaming
Reviewed in Canada on April 23, 2024
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great all round processor but there are better value options.
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CorradoG
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottima APU, ma occhio all'usato
Reviewed in Italy on June 23, 2024
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l'APU in sé è ottima, performa bene e riesce a gestire bene anche giochi piuttosto importanti a dettagli bassi. MA state attenti all'usato: sfruttano il sistema di resi di Amazon per truffarvi con un processore simile ma molto meno performante (io mi sono ritrovato con un 8700ge engineering sample, che costa meno della metà).
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JOURDON Gautier.
5.0 out of 5 stars Très bon CPU
Reviewed in France on April 6, 2024
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Un très bon CPU aussi bien en jeu que professionnellement parlant.
J'ai toujours été chez Intel® mais je peux affirmer que AMD® a un rapport qualité/prix bien mieux.
Ce CPU, le AMD® Ryzen™ 7 8700G @4.2GHz est vraiment puissant.

Même sans GPU dédié il fait tourner beaucoup de jeux en 1080p à plus de 60 FPS et la présence du NPU (Neural Processing Unit) rend ce CPU bien intéressant.
Je recommande !
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G.A.
5.0 out of 5 stars 8700G a desktop ROG ally Z1 extreme
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2024
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I bought this 8700G for a media and light gaming PC for the lounge. It also set's up foundations for a future proof AM5 route. This maybe still a few year's off with AMD still releasing AM4 5000 CPU's like x3d and GT.

On release it is needing a BIOS update to remove a cycling of power dropping. This is because "STAPM"; it behaves as a handheld Z1 extreme (and performs as one) A future update will remove this artefact.
EDIT Update v 2.02 already released!

The 780M internal graphics are on par with a gtx1650 or rx580/Rx6400. It has 12 CU based on RDNA3. The processing power is between 7600 and 7700x. I only plan to play light games at 1080p on this; Cyberpunk (see my experience below) and Baldur's Gate 3 can get good around 60 FPS. Assassin Creed Valhalla got 67. Some reviews did 1440p in games like Skyrim and God of War. I have another AM4-based PC for heavy gaming. A review got Ratchet & Clank >40 FPS at 1440p....

As an APU it benefits from multi-channel RAM. Don't use a single RAM, don't use 4 lanes either it's counterproductive; 2 is the sweet-spot. I use dual channel in a Asrock phantom ITX mobo.
For overclocking and to get the most out of this APU get a B650 minimum (but not Gigabyte, functions disabled) with 'PBO' enabled and 'EXPO/XMP setting to RAM if not manually OC. Do not get the cheaper A620 (potentially stock CPU only settings. PBO and EXPO is there but some say it doesn't truely enable.
Try to maximise the RAM frequency/ low CL for better performance; reviews mainly use 6000 or 6400 mhz. Some reviews have got it >7200mhz but that wasn't in a small form factor build like mine. Offical is 5200 but they hint 6000 is 'sweet spot'. 32GB is a must if you plan to play demanding games Like Alan Wake II (at low settings) you may not get the most out of the chip with just 16 GB. As an example with 16GB 5600mhz (2x8GB) in the system i got FPS 36-49 (No fidelity boost) Cyberpunk v2.0 with 8GB UMA vRAM.
Auto assigned vRAM is 0.3 and see's an improvement when set at 2GB (UMA 'game mode') but less so an improvement setting between 4-8GB as FPS seem within margin of error, less than 5 FPS gained.

With 32GB 6800mhz with no fidelity boost and UMA v16GB the fps was 37-50 av 43.
With fidelity boost it av 60.5 (max 53-70)
With Core isolation disabled FPS increased to give Av 69.82 (59.63-83.34).

Screen Space Reflection...disable this for better performance especially if trying 1440p. It could be said that 16GB is fine for most games at 1080p (except Allan Wake 2 clocking 19GB vRAM). If you want to try 1440p 32GB is a must.

The AI monitoring is a bit limited atm as AMD and windows task manager are being developed. It will allow some tasks to not dip into either the CPU or iGPU. NPU clocks at 1.6 Ghz with total throughput 39 TOPS (16 coming from the NPU). One example of applied use is in video calling background and filters. Not sure of significance but the APU can run windows AI Copilot.

Comes with a taller 'Spire' and not the 'Stealth' CPU cooler as described. Not sure why as both 8700G and 8600G are 65W. If all EXPO, PBO etc is applied for best performance it's more likely 156W so cooling options should be considered for such OC.

Photo shows Benchmarks my (left) AM4 5800x3d with 7800xt GPU vs (right) AM5 8700G both with 32GB RAM dual channel.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 8700G a desktop ROG ally Z1 extreme
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2024
I bought this 8700G for a media and light gaming PC for the lounge. It also set's up foundations for a future proof AM5 route. This maybe still a few year's off with AMD still releasing AM4 5000 CPU's like x3d and GT.

On release it is needing a BIOS update to remove a cycling of power dropping. This is because "STAPM"; it behaves as a handheld Z1 extreme (and performs as one) A future update will remove this artefact.
EDIT Update v 2.02 already released!

The 780M internal graphics are on par with a gtx1650 or rx580/Rx6400. It has 12 CU based on RDNA3. The processing power is between 7600 and 7700x. I only plan to play light games at 1080p on this; Cyberpunk (see my experience below) and Baldur's Gate 3 can get good around 60 FPS. Assassin Creed Valhalla got 67. Some reviews did 1440p in games like Skyrim and God of War. I have another AM4-based PC for heavy gaming. A review got Ratchet & Clank >40 FPS at 1440p....

As an APU it benefits from multi-channel RAM. Don't use a single RAM, don't use 4 lanes either it's counterproductive; 2 is the sweet-spot. I use dual channel in a Asrock phantom ITX mobo.
For overclocking and to get the most out of this APU get a B650 minimum (but not Gigabyte, functions disabled) with 'PBO' enabled and 'EXPO/XMP setting to RAM if not manually OC. Do not get the cheaper A620 (potentially stock CPU only settings. PBO and EXPO is there but some say it doesn't truely enable.
Try to maximise the RAM frequency/ low CL for better performance; reviews mainly use 6000 or 6400 mhz. Some reviews have got it >7200mhz but that wasn't in a small form factor build like mine. Offical is 5200 but they hint 6000 is 'sweet spot'. 32GB is a must if you plan to play demanding games Like Alan Wake II (at low settings) you may not get the most out of the chip with just 16 GB. As an example with 16GB 5600mhz (2x8GB) in the system i got FPS 36-49 (No fidelity boost) Cyberpunk v2.0 with 8GB UMA vRAM.
Auto assigned vRAM is 0.3 and see's an improvement when set at 2GB (UMA 'game mode') but less so an improvement setting between 4-8GB as FPS seem within margin of error, less than 5 FPS gained.

With 32GB 6800mhz with no fidelity boost and UMA v16GB the fps was 37-50 av 43.
With fidelity boost it av 60.5 (max 53-70)
With Core isolation disabled FPS increased to give Av 69.82 (59.63-83.34).

Screen Space Reflection...disable this for better performance especially if trying 1440p. It could be said that 16GB is fine for most games at 1080p (except Allan Wake 2 clocking 19GB vRAM). If you want to try 1440p 32GB is a must.

The AI monitoring is a bit limited atm as AMD and windows task manager are being developed. It will allow some tasks to not dip into either the CPU or iGPU. NPU clocks at 1.6 Ghz with total throughput 39 TOPS (16 coming from the NPU). One example of applied use is in video calling background and filters. Not sure of significance but the APU can run windows AI Copilot.

Comes with a taller 'Spire' and not the 'Stealth' CPU cooler as described. Not sure why as both 8700G and 8600G are 65W. If all EXPO, PBO etc is applied for best performance it's more likely 156W so cooling options should be considered for such OC.

Photo shows Benchmarks my (left) AM4 5800x3d with 7800xt GPU vs (right) AM5 8700G both with 32GB RAM dual channel.
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