Ryzen 7 8700G & Ryzen 5 8600G Review: AMD Zen 4 With A Potent Radeon GPU
HotHardware's Test Systems:
AIDA64 Memory Bandwidth, Memory Latency & Cache Latency
AIDA64's CPU Cache and Memory benchmarks measure memory bandwidth during read, write and copy operations, in addition to memory latency, and cache bandwidth and latency. While the Ryzen 8000G series uses a similar memory interface to Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors, there is some contention across that interface to accomodate the more powerful integrated on-processo graphics.
That aforementioned contention on the memory controller to accomodate the Radeon iGPU is likely the reason for the somewhat higher memeory latency on the Ryzen 8000G series processors here. That said, they're still in the same ballpark as other Ryzen 7000 series processors.
Geekbench v5.4.1 CPU Benchmarks
In the GeekBench tests, we're stressing only the CPU cores in a system (not the graphics card or iGPU), with both single and multi-threaded workloads. The tests are comprised of encryption processing, image compression, HTML5 parsing, physics calculations and other general purpose compute processing workloads.
We're presenting a wide array of Intel and AMD processors in our benchmarks, including an assortment of much higher-end, higher-clocked (and more expensive) enthusiast-class chips with many more cores. As such, the AMD Ryzen 5 8600G and Ryzen 7 8700G land in the lower quadrant of the chart, but their performance is right in-line with expectations. The Ryzen 5 8600G falls somewhere in between the Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 5 7600X and the Ryzen 7 8600G approaches the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and 7700X.
UL PCMark 10 Benchmarks
Next, up we have some full-system testing with PCMark. We're reporting all test results from the PCMark 10 benchmark suite, including the Essentials, Productivity, Digital Content Creation and and total PCMark score. The Essentials test covers workloads like web browsing, video conferencing and app start-up times, while Productivity tests everyday office apps from spreadsheets to word processing. Finally, the Digital Content Creation test evaluates performance of a machine with respect to photo and video editing, as well as rendering and visualization.
Note when looking at the chart above that we have four results with the AMD Ryzen 5 8600G and Ryzen 7 8700G. We wanted to see how overall system performance was affected by using only the Radeon iGPU, but also had to test with a discrete GPU to keep the playing field level with the other processors. As you can see, the Digital Content Creation score is significantly lower when using the iGPU, which brings the overall score down, but performance is still very good with the AMD Ryzen 5 8600G and Ryzen 7 8700G. Add the discrete GPU into the mix, and the chips jump up the charts and competitive with all of today's mainstream processors.
Browser & Web App Benchmarks: Jetstream 2 And Speedometer 2
Next up, we have some numbers from the Speedometer 2.0 and Jetstream 2 tests available at browserbench.org. The Speedometer Benchmark Suite uses a wide array of latency and throughput benchmarks to evaluate web application performance and Jetstream evaluates Javascript and WebAssembly performance; both tests take all of their individual results and tabulate them into a final score.These benchmarks measure performance of an array of browser-based technologies used on modern, rich web applications. Scores in these benchmark are an indicator of the performance users would see when browsing the web and running advanced web apps. All of the systems were tested using the latest version of Microsoft's Edge browser, with default browser settings, on a clean, fully-updated install of Windows 11.
7-Zip Data Decompression Tests
The 7-Zip benchmark measures compression and decompression performance using the LZMA method, which leverages the Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm to perform lossless data compression. The benchmark produces a final rating in GIPS (giga instructions per second).
As we'd expect, the AMD Ryzen 5 8600G and Ryzen 7 8700G fall in-line with other Ryzen processors with similar core counts here. Single-thread performance is similar to thier counterparts, and multi-thread performance is on-par with similar core-count Ryzen processors as well.
