AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G review: integrated graphics for the win

As we mentioned earlier, we're using high-speed DDR5-6000 RAM with CL30 timings to back up each of our CPUs. You'll see largely similar results with base-spec DDR5-4800 RAM, with games like Cyberpunk 2077, Far Cry 6 and Ashes of the Singularity showing the largest improvements from faster RAM.

Anyway - in these tests, we'll examine how these new AMD APUs behave in Cyberpunk 2077, as well as two recent releases from series that have featured prominently in our previous CPU benchmarks: Far Cry 6, renowned for its single-core reliance, and Crysis 3 Remastered, a DF staple. We've opted for highly repeatable scenes here from a variety of sources here - an in-game cutscene, a brief open gameplay segment along a fixed route and an in-game benchmark.

Remember that you can mouse over the results in the tables below (as long as you're using a desktop browser rather than a phone) to get dynamically generated performance readouts for all processors we've tested. Meanwhile, clicking the graph swaps you into percentages, making it a bit easier to judge relative performance at a glance.

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is our second RT benchmark, showing how RT performance can add even more load to the CPU and cause CPU bottlenecking in some scenarios. This benchmark is taken from a motorcycle run along the busy city streets.

The 8600G does well here, with a 87fps average that comes close to the 90fps recorded with the 7500F - though the 7600X is faster than the 7500F by about the same margin with a 94fps average. The 13400F is also in the same ballpark, at 97fps, with the more powerful (and more recent) Intel CPUs all around the 110fps mark.

Far Cry 6

The single-core reliance from Far Cries past returns in the sixth instalment of the franchise. That is a good thing for the Ryzen 8000 APUs, which are just a touch behind Ryzen 7000 with a respectable ~100fps average for both chips. That's within margin-of-error with the 7500F, but the X3D chips really pull away with ~140fps results. Over in Intel alnd, the 13400F is close at 108fps, but basically everything else we've tested - admittedly high/mid-range CPUS - are in the 120s or 130s with significantly higher minimum frame-rates too.

Crysis 3 Remastered

Crysis 3 Remastered allows us to revisit our favourite scene from early on in the original game's campaign, which oscillates between character closeups and complex distant geometry to load both CPU and GPU. Once again, we have essentially identical performance between the 8700G and 8600G, which could make the 8600G a nice budget alternative to something like the 7600X which is just 14 percent faster. The 13400F is faster than the AMD duo once again, with a nine percent advantage.

With our tests run for now, let's press on to our thrilling conclusion.

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G analysis

• Introduction, test rig and content creation benchmarks
• iGPU gaming benchmarks: F1 23, CS:GO, Far Cry 6, Cyberpunk 2077
• Gaming benchmarks: Flight Simulator 2020, Hitman 3, Ashes of the Singularity
• Gaming benchmarks: Counter-Strike: GO, Metro Exodus EE, Black Ops Cold War
• Gaming benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077, Far Cry 6, Crysis 3 Remastered [this page]
• AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G: the Digital Foundry verdict