The AMD Ryzen 7 8700G - 60 FPS Gaming Without a Graphics Card?

As someone who has used AMD APUs for at least a decade, I've been looking forward to the day that they could keep up with or even outperform entry level discrete graphics cards. It seems that the Ryzen 7 8700G and Radeon 780M iGPU can do just that...

0:00 Introduction
1:20 My Ryzen 7 8700G Test Setup
2:01 Make Sure To Check For Motherboard Updates
2:20 RAM and Test Methodology
2:38 Can It Run Crysis?
3:22 Kingdom Come Deliverance
4:02 Spider-Man Remastered
4:50 Counter-Strike 2
5:20 Grand Theft Auto V
5:45 The Witcher 3
6:16 Forza Horizon 5
6:31 Battlefield V
7:08 Cyberpunk 2077
7:40 Red Dead Redemption 2
8:22 Fortnite
8:55 Cyberpunk w/ Ray Tracing
9:14 Overclocking the RAM and iGPU
9:45 Cyberpunk - Stock vs OC
10:06 Forza - Stock vs OC
10:26 RDR2 -Stock vs OC
10:58 GTA V - Stock vs OC
11:23 Final Thoughts

Thanks for watching :)

[AwesomePoolShark]

I blink and now there's an 8000 series for Ryzen. Time goes by like crazy dawg.

[retrospecs]

These Ryzen APUs have been amazing and keep impressing the public generation after generation. I just wish that they are able to do something about the prices in the future since getting the best integrated graphics means spending a dime too much.

[Remu-]

The OC performance boost may not seem too significant when looking at the fps but it's about 8% uplift which is really nice.

[giZm]

Holy crap, Crysis at 60fps!? I certainly did not expect that kind of punching power from this APU. Amazing, truly.

[guildpilotone]

Most useful practical review of the 8700G I have seen. Thanks!

[manuelhernandez]

You are THE GUY for reviewing parts like these. No one else's review came close to you brother. THANK you for this one!!

[bumbaclot]

Freaking monster of a cpu. I'm pretty impressed.

[mattydemise]

I love these APUs, and I always have a 2200G floating around in my workspace for testing, messing around on, etc., but it’s kind of a shame that AMD has shifted their marketing mentality for these APUs. It used to be that APUs were cost effective solutions for users that couldn’t really afford a dedicated GPU but now it’s shifted to being a higher end CPU for those chasing better performance for smaller form factor and itx builds which already incur a premium. You can see evidence of this in their current 8000 series stack. Look at how gimped the 8600G and 8500G are in comparison to the 8700G.

[larrylandmine]

I think a lot of people are missing the point of the 8000 series APUs.

It’s not 2020 when APUs were for the poors, these things are now for people chasing SFF like myself.

This thing has impressive work environment capabilities while also offering a positive leisure gaming experience.

If you travel for work, or maybe want something you can bring to in-laws, all you need is this an a portable Usbc monitor. No hassle of removing a GPU for transport or dealing with a heavy, bulky, Micro ATX build.

InWin offers some cases with very small built in Gold rated PSUs and they pair very well with an APU like this if anyone is interested.

[onemor]

The performance of this integrated graphics is ridiculous! I am genuinely impressed

[eli]

I really like that you included overclocking numbers! I think this is very helpful and honestly, anyone buying this for gaming would probably want to overclock the igpu and get any extra performance that they can.

[nintendoatarikiller]

Huge gains with the OC. IAO really came in clutch

[Tocsin-Bang]

Thanks, from watching your videos I fixed the graphics issue on my desktop. All I did was take out the GeForce 710, blew off the dust, cleaned off the heatsink compound with IPA and applied fresh. Its like a new machine.I know its a rubbish board, but it does what I want, I-m not into gaming in any way!

[vijayakumarikumar]

Compare it with the budget card rx 6400 in ray tracing

[gedeuchnixan]

I remember my A4-5000m, 720p low but I´ve played Crysis 3 and Battlefield IV @ 30fps with that 45W APU.

[einpercy]

APUs have come a long way. Still remember how disappointed I was with my 2400G when I bought it in 2018. Got myself a RX 570 as soon as I could and a 2700X in 2021 because I was not pleased at all with the APU. It sucked both in CPU and GPU performance and was a bottleneck even for the RX 570 which I actually have to this day. As always, great video!

[NukaOrQuantum]

The urge to build a mini/SFF PC is growing stronger day by day, despite having less than $100 to my name, lol

[Toxic__]

The fact you can play AAA games, with decent settings and fps, with just a CPU is wild. Imagine what will be possible in 5 years time.

[mruczyslaw]

It looks like this APU is constantly power limited by 87W and it makes the GPU clock fluctuating all over the place, I wonder if performance would be a bit higher if the power limit was higher.

[DBTHEGOD]

Awesome video man been watching since the og days keep it up