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Retro and switch/pc
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i prefer linux
Consoles are kinda…restrictive. You might want to pick a PC with a modern AMD Ryzen processor. The integrated GPUs in them are so damn good, and they make it even smaller than a console. It’s just that devs refuse to optimize games for PC.
Besides, AAA games kinda suck in 2024. Why not try out some 2D platformer-style indie games?
Quickly, which Ryzen APU should one buy for iGPU performance on par with current consoles??
Besides, AAA games kinda suck in 2024.
Real as fuck, new Monster Hunter is the only good upcoming AAA game
In the 7000 series, excluding the 7040 (Zen4, RDNA3) aka Phoneix and 7045 (Zen4, RDNA2) aka Dragon Range, the rest of them are faux-7000 (see edit below for exceptions) - basically, refresh of older architecture - so do not pick them.
Phoenix is the only one here with Zen 4 and RDNA3, while Dragon Range has Zen 4, but RDNA2 GPU - the 610M, which is quite weak - which means that we shouldn’t be picking 7045 CPUs, but the 7040 ones.
Within the 7040 series, 7440U (never sold with this name, but instead rebranded as X1 for gaming handheld, maybe there’s a mini-PC or SBC out there?), 7540U and 7545U are all good budget processors, however, they come with the 740M with a measly 4CU.
7640U/H/HS comes with the 760M, which is kinda decent at 8CU. However, 7840U/H/HS and 7940H/HS comes with the 780M at 12CU, which is 4 extra compute units.
Now, in the 8000 series,the 8040 aka Hawk Point is also a refresh - however, they’re based on the 7040. So, basically, 7040 ≈ 8040, with slightly better NPU aka AI chip (10 vs 16 TOPs). You follow the same rule as above, but replace the preceding 7 with a 8.
If you want the meanest and the baddest breed, you can have the Strix Point, with the lastest Zen5 processor and the newer RDNA3.5 GPU. Both the 365 and HX370 are simply amazing APUs, with 880M (12CU) and 890M (16CU). They’re yet to be launched, I think.
Edit: in the 6000 (Zen 3+, RDNA2) and 7035 (6000 refresh, basically) series, there’s a iGPU with 680M. They’re slightly better than 760M, maybe because of the CU count. You can get them for cheap. Namely the 6800U/HS/H, 6900HS/HX, 6980HS/HX, and the 7335U/H/HS, 7336U.
Right and all of these are probably inferior to the 780M found in the 8700G? I was looking at 780M/8700G numbers and watching it slug its way through Alan Wake 2 at 1080/FSR/lowest and not even getting 30fps consistently
AMD’s new mobile naming scheme is… slightly unpleasant, not as bad as Intel’s but lol. At least it tells you which ones are old architectures…
The series x/s is largely just an Xbox one two, whereas the ps5 feels like an actual step up.
A Linux pc is infinitely better than both at literally everything
