AMD has revealed the highly anticipated DDR5 desktop APUs for the AM5 platform. The specs and release date for the new Ryzen 8000 G-series APUs, headlined by the 8700G, are now out.
AMD has a long history of vying for GPU compute market share. Ever since Nvidia got first dibs with their Tesla architecture, AMD has been playing catch up. Terascale 3 moved from VLIW5 to VLIW4 to improve execution unit utilization in compute workloads. GCN replaced Terascale and emphasized consistent performance for both GPGPU and graphics…