Written by Metal Messiah
It appears that in a recent leak coming from Biostar (via Komachi_Ensaka), several “Renoir” Ryzen 4000 APU SKUs have been spotted. BIOSTAR has listed these AM4 “Renoir” APUs under the CPU support list page of their recently announced B550 Motherboards.
Several AMD Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” APUs have been spotted along with their model names, OPN codes and final clock speeds. The motherboard page of “Biostar” features full support for the Ryzen 4000G and GE processors, which are having a max TDP value of 65 Watts and 35 Watts respectively.
These are APUs, and unlike normal desktop CPUs, these have integrated onboard Graphics (not comparing here with Intel’s iGPU though). Simply put, an APU is constituted of both the CPU and GPU cores on a single “die”. They often serve as an approachable “entry-level” graphics solutions for budget gaming PCs and gaming laptops alike.
Those gamers who don’t want a dedicated/discrete GPU can go for an APU setup for “casual” light Gaming.
The recently released B550 Motherboards will also have support for these “Renoir” APUs. The “Renoir”‘ APU lineup will succeed the Ryzen “Picasso” lineup from last year. It will have support for the AM4 socket.
These new APUs will feature the same die as the Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ “Mobility” CPU lineup. The Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ AM4 family is aimed for the “desktop” platform. These new processors feature “7nm Zen 2” cores and an enhanced “7nm Vega GPU” core, offering a slight upgrade in the form of a full 7nm architecture design. The leaked list from Biostar features G, GE and PRO series of SKUs. Biostar has listed 7 Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ APUs on its support page, including the PRO series and Low-Power series variants.
The Ryzen 7 PRO 4700G, Ryzen 5 PRO 4400G, Ryzen 3 PRO 4200G all make up the “PRO series” and these are “65 Watts” TDP SKUs. On the other hand the low-power ’35W’ segment consists of the Ryzen 7 4700GE, Ryzen 5 4400GE, & the Ryzen 3 4200GE respectively. The “clock speed” specifications are also being mentioned.
These Ryzen 4000 APUs are going to feature 4, 6, as well as 8 core parts, like the “Ryzen 7 4700G”. To really take advantage of the enhanced “Vega iGPU”, you would have to use a high frequency DRAM module to feed the GPU with as much bandwidth as possible. All Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ APUs will support native DDR4-3200 MHz speeds though.
Videocardz recently posted a picture of the Ryzen 7 4700G APU. With the release of these high-performance “Renoir” APUs, AMD plans to enter a different “market” segment. Previously only 4-core/8-thread APUs were available with up to 11 Compute Units/CUs, but this new “Renoir” silicon only features 8 Compute Units.
Previous generation APUs came with 11 CUs, but AMD has made it very clear that “despite” fewer CUs on this “Renoir” lineup, the Graphics performance is still better, thanks to the optimized GPU clock speeds. Like mentioned before, APUs are a perfect upgrade path for “budget” and “casual” gamers alike, and for those who don’t want to spend some extra cash on a dedicated GPU, or they are “budget” constrained for some reason. Given these new chips are rumored to feature 8-core/16-thread parts, along with a 6-core/12-thread option as well, this might give few more options for system builders to upgrade.
Until now AMD has only released “budget” APUs, with the assumption that serious gamers and professionals will mostly go for a “discrete” graphics cards in their systems, which seems to be a reasonable assumption if you ask me. But with this new “Renoir” APU lineup things are a bit different.
An APU can also be seen as a “backup” option, just in case your GPU dies. Or, these could alternatively be used in NAS boxes, servers, media centers etc. Rumor has it that these new APUs will use the same Vega architecture as the “Ryzen 4000 Mobile” chips. This seems like a slight bummer since “NAVI APU” would have been an interesting option, in my opinion.
The GE SKU APUs on the other hand might be an ideal option for compact gaming PCs which require high core counts along with low levels of power consumption/heat, at 35 Watts TDP. AMD can also target “pre-built” and OEM PCs, with the Vega integrated Graphics.
Here you can see some gaming benchmarks of the previous gen Ryzen 5 3400G and Ryzen 5 2400G APUs tested on 720p and 900p respectively. This gives us an idea about the level of performance casual gamers can expect.
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my younger bro uses the Ryzen G APU for games and other tasks. More powerful than Intel’s igpu.
It’s an awesome way to get into gaming on the cheap. Glad he’s enjoying it.
Indeed. we are impressed by the overall performance. he mostly plays simple indie games, but some new titles also run on low screen resolution.
at least he can PLAY games, and he doesn’t mind the graphics or the frame rate being low.
Honestly, most of the best games are Indies anyway, so he’s in good shape. Give him a fist bump for me. He should check out the messenger, it’s a great indie game.
That’s the whole purpose of an APU. It provides an alternative for not having a discrete “dedicated” GPU, for casual/light gaming.
Plus, if your GPU goes or you’re RMA ing a card you still have video. Kind of hoping AMD starts making high end CPUs with video for this reason. I keep a raspberry pi on stand by for this.
Yes indeed..Btw, I’m really interested in getting a “Raspberry Pi” for myself. Have not yet decided which Model to buy though.
I’m looking at the “Raspberry Pi 4 B“.
You can’t go wrong with the Rpi4B, I used to have the 3B 1gb ram model, when I switched to the 4B 4gbRam it’s night and day difference, other than more cpu power, I’m loving the USB3 and Gigabit Ethernet.
The only weak part is the GPU, it’s still lacking compared to nvidia jetson nano, but I guess thats what you get for half the price.
Thanks a lot for your suggestion. I will surely grab this Model asap. Cheers !
“This gives us an idea about the level of performance”
wtf, no it doesn’t. The 3000Gs are just a rehash. this is supposed to be a new architecture on a smaller node meaning a sizable performance jump. these graphs are the opposite of informative.
Hey, you misunderstood my point. I was not trying to imply that we can expect a similar perf from 4000G series as well…NO. Some misunderstanding here.
I just gave an example of how an APU performs in games. It appears my text and article wasn’t clear enough. I should have mentioned this before. Those charts are just a “reference” to highlight the perf of 3000G series SKUs.
Nothing to do with this “Renoir” lineup. I didn’t give that chart to “compare” 3000G’s level of performance with these new 4000G series. No. It was just an example of an APU, which in this case was the 3000G series. Nothing to do with 4000G series..
Nothing else. Just an example of how previous-gen APUs performed in games. My point wasn’t clear enough. Apologies for that. I’m Not comparing those charts with “Renoir”‘s expected level of performance jump.