AMD Ryzen 7 8700G Linux Performance
The AMD Ryzen 7 8700G (and 8600G) were tested using an ASRock B650 PRO RS motherboard and 2 x 16GB DDR5-6400 GSKILL TRIDENT Z memory, which was kindly provided as a review kit by AMD.
The ASRock B650 PRO RS is a ~$210 USD ATX motherboard supporting Ryzen 7000/8000 series processors, one PCI Express 4.0 x16 slot, one PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot, one PCIe 4.0 x1 slot for storage, one M.2 key-E for WiFi, and all the other standard fare for an AMD B650 motherboard. There's also Realtek 2.5G networking and all standard functionality of this motherboard was working out fine on this motherboard during my Linux testing.
Both DisplayPort and HDMI ports are available on the ASRock B650 PRO RS for leveraging the integrated graphics.
The AMD Ryzen 7 8700G includes a Wraith Spire heatsink fan that was used while testing all of the AMD Ryzen 7000/8000 series processors.
Again, with a modern Linux OS the Ryzen 7 8700G and the RDNA3 integrated graphics should work out nicely. For my launch-day testing and the benchmarks in this article Ubuntu 23.10 was being used with the Linux 6.7 kernel, Mesa 24.1-devel via the Oibaf PPA, and using the latest AMDGPU firmware.
The processors tested for today's comparison included:
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G - 2400MHz FCLK (vs. 2000MHz default)
Again, the Ryzen 5 8600G results as well as the Intel comparison data points will be published in a follow-up article in the next few days once that testing has wrapped up.
For reference both the Ryzen 7 8700G was tested with the default 2000MHz FCLK and 2400MHz FCLK, which is a recommended optimization by AMD for better performance albeit not a default change. There was communication initially that it would be a 2400MHz FCLK default in a future AGESA/BIOS update but then later said it will stick to 2000MHz but that 2400MHz is an option for those wanting better performance.