The AMD Ryzen 7 8700G has an awful lot to live up to. If you keep up with desktop processor news, you’ll probably have heard tall tales about the last few iterations of Ryzen 7 processors. Word has it these chips shoot lightning bolts out of their cores, their threads might as well be made of stardust, and no other option can stand against their tremendous gaming and content creation might.
The Ryzen 8000G family arrived early in 2024, and people immediately looked to the Ryzen 7 8700G because it was the first chip to bear that name since the somewhat revolutionary Ryzen 7 7800X3D - still touted by many as the best CPU for gaming. Stripped of that chip’s 3D V-cache technology though, this version isn’t necessarily trying to be “better” at gaming, because it takes a slightly different approach.
