A surprising leak from Gigabyte reveals the existence of new APUs from AMD.
Today, the vast majority of processors used on our PCs feature what is known as an "integrated graphics solution" or, in English, iGPU. This means there's no need to install a graphics card in the system, and the central processor takes care of everything. Of course, the iGPU cannot replace a graphics card in every respect, and the power of the integrated graphics cores is far from sufficient for video games, for example. With this in mind, AMD has developed chips known as APUs. These chips feature a much more muscular graphics solution, with video games in mind.
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To distinguish the APUs from its other chips, AMD adds the suffix "G", which, for example, led to the arrival of the Ryzen 5000G in 2021 and the Ryzen 8000G at the very beginning of last year. Although AMD is keeping quiet for the time being about developments in this range, several rumours have already suggested the imminent arrival of a new generation designed around the Zen 5 CPU architecture. Remember that the 8000G was born from the combination of the Zen 4 CPU architecture and the RDNA 3 GPU architecture.
With rumors multiplying, there's little doubt that AMD will one day release these Ryzen 9000Gs. For the time being, however, we've only had rumours to back up this idea. Today, however, the rumor has gained even more weight thanks to the indiscretion of one of the industry's giants. Updating the page dedicated to the memory compatibility of its B650 motherboards, Gigabyte has posted the words " Ryzen 9000G-series CPUs ". Even the least English-speaking among us will have understood that this is to ensure the compatibility of Gigabyte's AM5 motherboards with future Ryzen 9000G chips. It now remains to be seen when and how AMD will lift the veil on these chips - rumored to be codenamed Gorgon Point - which are to combine Zen 5 CPU cores with RDNA 3.5 GPU cores.
