The $359 Ryzen 7 5700G APU is an interesting prospect – essentially an AMD Renoir laptop processor given more power and thermal headroom in its new guise as a desktop CPU. It costs a hair less than the entry-level Ryzen 5 5600X desktop processor and also adds integrated graphics support, so how does it compare in games to other AMD and Intel desktop CPUs once a discrete GPU is in play? And how good are its integrated graphics anyway? Those are the questions we aim to answer in the Digital Foundry review of AMD’s top APU.
So what is an APU anyway? This stands for Accelerated Processing Unit, and basically means you get both a CPU and a GPU in a single package. The advantage of this is that you can run your computer and even play games without a dedicated graphics card, a useful capability when graphics cards are in short supply and prices have skyrocketed.
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