Ryzen 7 4700G | Specs, Price, Performance with Benchmarks

Ryzen 7 4700G Review 

Is this eight core ZEN 2 APU worth the price?

The Ryzen 7 4700G was launched by AMD in late July, 2020. This APU was based on AMD's ZEN 2 microarchitecture and also created a great hype for it. launched for around $310 - $320, this APU is the most powerful APUs you can find in the market. AMD claims the new 7nm chips offer up to a 25% increase in single-threaded performance and up to a 2.5X increase in multi-threaded applications over the last gen APUs. Is this truly the best deal for a budget gamer or a failure?

Well, there is great improvement in these ZEN 2 APUs from the previous ZEN+ APUs which is mostly of increase in number of cores, threads, CPU and iGPU frequencies with the biggest difference of newer microarchitecture and AMD's 7nm process.

Processor	Ryzen 7 4700G
Cores/Threads	8/16
SMT	YES
Base Clock frequency	3.6 GHz
Boost Clock frequency	4.5 GHz
Unlocked	YES
Microarchitecture	ZEN 2
Lithography process	7nm
L3 cache	8 MB
TDP	45W – 65W
PCIe version	PCIe 3.0
Supported PCIe lanes	8
Maximum memory	32 GB DDR4
Maximum memory frequency	3200 MHz
Socket	AM4
Integrated graphics	Radeon Vega 8
GPU Base frequency	2100 MHz
GPU Boost frequency	2500 MHz
GPU cores	8
Launch date	7/21/2020
Launch price	$310

The Ryzen 7 4700G is based on the ZEN 2 microarchitecture and processed on the 7nm Lithography process. It comes with 8 ZEN2 cores with SMT enabled with upto 4.5 GHz Boost Frequency. It has 8 MB shared L3 cache and TDP ranging 45 - 65W with 65W TDP. It supports upto 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes. 

This APU supports AM4 socket and 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 RAM. It comes with Radeon Vega 8 graphics which has 8 Graphics cores and 2100 MHz Base Clock Frequency.

From desktop side the Ryzen 5 3400G is incomparable to this 8 core APU but the mobile Ryzen 7 4800H is somewhat comparable to this APU with lower frequencies, TDP and weaker graphics, still the desktop Ryzen 7 4700G is greater among all these APUs.

APU	Ryzen 7 4700G @4.5 GHz
Graphics Card	Geforce RTX 3070
Memory	2x8GB 3200MHz CL14
Integrated Graphics	Vega 8 @2400 MHz
Motherboard	TUF B550 Plus Gaming
PSU	Corsair RM850

With these following specifications, Cinebench R20 is tested and compared with few other CPUs and few games are played with both integrated radeon Vega 8 graphics and dedicated RTX 3070.

Cinebench R20 Scores:

While paired with Geforce RTX 3070 (ultra 1080p):

With the inbuilt Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (low 1080p):

So, now that I have shown you all the specs and benchmarks you know that as an APU this performs really good afterall it is the best APU available but also as a CPU it rivals the Ryzen 7 3700x. Both its singlecore and multicore scores are very high compared to all APUs. The integrated Vega 8 graphics is also a decent iGPU  and you can play almost every game on low 1080p settings at playable to good FPS.

Now, all what i want to say is that it is indeed a really powerful APU which rivals the 3rd generation Ryzen 7 3700x and is also cheaper but the only problem is the availability as it is not available in all the areas.

You should buy this APU if you can.

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