AMD confirms Ryzen 7000 G-series with BIOS updates – Zen 4 APUs are coming
Ryzen 7000 APUs are coming, they will hopefully have a larger gaming focus than current CPUs
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Have you been anticipating the arrival of the Ryzen 7000 G-series APUs? We know we have, and we love it when more budget hardware becomes available, making gaming more accessible to the masses, regardless of their budget. AMD is fantastic at providing budget-friendly gaming, and now it seems, Zen 4 APUs are coming. AMD confirms Ryzen 7000 G-series with BIOS updates.
It seems that AMD has released Beta BIOS’ for its X670 motherboards, readying them for the upcoming G series Ryzen 7000 CPUs. It is something we have been looking forward to for a long time, although, we were starting to lose hope that we would see a 7000 series APU since this leak came long after the initial release of Zen 4.
New AMD BIOS confirms Ryzen 7000 series is coming
As reported on by Tomshardware, a new ASUS Beta BIOS set has been found and leaked to the public. Andreas Schilling on X (formally Twitter) had noticed that the new BIOS Betas were AGESE version 1.1.0.0, as opposed to 1.0.8.0 (the current build), and when analyzed with an SMU revealed two Ryzen 7000 series APUs on the support list.
This almost certainly means that the Ryzen 7000G series is coming, or at the very least two of them are. This coupled with Tomshardware’s earlier reports of 7000 G series CPUs makes it almost impossible for this to be anything other than the 7000 G series.
What does a new AMD Ryzen APU mean?
Fantastic news for those who like to save a buck or two by not getting a GPU. An upgrade from the 5000G series to the 7000G series would be massive in terms of performance. The iGPU inside of the standard Ryzen 7000 series we have currently performs surprisingly well in gaming workloads. Considering it’s meager 2 Compute units. So one can only imagine the amount of performance a dedicated Ryzen 7000 G series can output.
Now, we do already have Ryzen 7000 series APUs technically, however, it is locked to the mobile format. The Ryzen 7040U series is known as the Phoenix 2 APU. This APU features a maximum of six cores, with four of them being Zen 4c cores, and it includes only four RDNA 3 CUs. While it’s highly likely that the original Phoenix APU will be included in the Ryzen 7000G series, it remains uncertain if Phoenix 2 will also be available for desktop use.
We’re looking forward to the new Ryzen 7000 G-series. Although there is no release date yet, we expect to see the G-series launched towards the end of the year. And if we don’t hear anything from AMD by then, we assume that we’ll be seeing plenty of the AMD Ryzen desktop G-series at CEX 2024 in January.
