AMD Ryzen 5000 processors with integrated graphics are now available for purchase

In April, AMD announced versions of its Ryzen 5000 desktop processors with integrated graphics cards, but it only made them available for prebuilt OEM systems, promising that it would sell the chips to consumers later this year. Well, “later this year” is today, with AMD now offering its Ryzen 5000 G-Series APUs to everyone to buy, not just multi-million dollar PC makers.

Currently, only two of the Ryzen 5000 G-Series chips are available for purchase from AMD’s website: the eight-core Ryzen 7 5700G for $ 359 and the six-core Ryzen 5 5600G for $ 259. . Both chips, like the standard Ryzen 5000 processors, are built on AMD’s 7nm process with its Zen 3 architecture.

At present, AMD only sells these two models (the most powerful options in the Ryzen 5000 G-Series lineup). The Ryzen 3 5300G and Ryzen 3 5300GE are still listed on AMD’s site as “OEM only”, and the 35W GE versions of the 5700G and 5600G do not appear to be available for purchase yet either.

The new chips are otherwise identical to the OEM counterparts that shipped earlier this year, meaning they still use AMD’s old Vega graphics platform, and not its industry-leading RDNA / Navi process found. on the latest Radeon GPUs. But if you don’t need super-powered graphics to run the latest AAA games at ultra settings, new chips can be a good option to consider (especially considering how difficult it is to get a new GPU these days. ).