As I mentioned in a Video last week - I have been wanting to pick up one of these new APUs to replicate an ETA Prime video that I saw. At the time the cheapest price I could find was $352… So the APAYDAY code is coming through with a good discount on this occasion…
Turns out I was able to pick up a slightly used 8700G off OCAU for $400 instead, so I'll let this one slide through to the Keeper. But for anyone else out there intrigued by these new APUs… I think the price is either right or getting into the zone of being right.
People judge the value of these APUs based on their iGPU performance. But it is the CPU performance of this chip that is seriously good. If AMD were to sell it for any less… it would cannibalise the sales of their other CPUs.
It is estimated to have equal performance to a Ryzen 5 7500F. I can't verify yet that however I will do some testing of the 8700G vs my 7500F when I receive my APU and it should be interesting to see how they stack up against each other.
one downside with the 8600G is only PCIe4 and 16mb Cache