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AMD’s new Ryzen 5700G APU (that’s CPU plus integrated graphics) is going cheap in the UK£294.99 for an eight core, sixteen thread processor with integrated graphics.
£294.99 for an eight core, sixteen thread processor with integrated graphics.
The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G was released earlier this year for £330, but supply issues made it hard to find this processor with integrated graphics at all. Now, Ebuyer are selling the chip for £295, a £40 reduction from its recommended retail price of £330. That’s a good deal for a CPU that outperforms AMD’s already excellent Ryzen 3700X while also providing fast enough graphics performance for 1080p gaming. Oh, and it comes with a free, quite decent AMD Wraith CPU cooler - awesome.
Get the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G for £295 (was £330)
With graphics card prices being what they are right now - and no end in sight to price hikes and chip shortages for at least another year - the 5700G is an all-in-one solution that will get you gaming now on the cheap. At £330, the 5700G was already a decent deal, but at £295 it becomes even more alluring.
I’ve had a Ryzen 7 5700G in for testing over at Digital Foundry, and my early results show performance in between the Ryzen 5600X and 5800X in most games and content creation tasks, although this CPU doesn’t include the giant amounts of L3 cache found in other Ryzen 5000 CPUs. That means some games that benefit greatly from this cache run slower on the 5700G than on the 5600X, but performance is still in line with the Ryzen 3000 series which is already fast enough for most purposes.
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If you can find an old graphics card at a cheap price, then a good alternative to the 5700G would be pairing that old graphics card with aRyzen 5600X. If you can’t though, then this is a much cleaner solution that still provides reasonable performance, and that gets a big thumbs up from me.
If you prefer Amazon, they’veprice-matched the deal too here.
Another AMD Ryzen deal that caught my eye wasthis Ryzen7 3800XT from Currys. It’s £250 when you use codeFNDDGAMINGat the checkout, reduced from £330. That’s another strong deal, although the difference in performance between this and the earlier Ryzen 7 3800X are incredibly slim. It’s slower than the 5700G above and doesn’t come with any integrated graphics, but it’s also cheaper - so it’s an alternative worth knowing about. Personally, I’d go for the 5700G, but you do you!
