The world is in turmoil, but slowly improving. Can we say the same about integrated graphics? If you’re invested enough in tech to be getting fed th

How I Overclocked the Ryzen 7 5700G’s iGPU to 2900 MHz, a World Record

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2021-08-05 16:30:08

The world is in turmoil, but slowly improving. Can we say the same about integrated graphics? If you’re invested enough in tech to be getting fed these articles in your news feed, then you probably know that an APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) is a special CPU with bulked-up integrated graphics. APUs have earned a bit of a bad rep in the past, though, so if you’re anything like me, your face auto-cringes a little bit, and you’d honestly rather just not be involved in any conversation about APUs. Well, now AMD would like to have a word because its latest integrated graphics are not only very capable, they're also highly overclockable.

I was given the opportunity to test the integrated Vega 8 graphics on LN2, and I jumped at the chance to try something different that no one has done yet. You can't just google how to OC these iGPUs (now you can!), and I like just that type of challenge.

The Ryzen 7 5700G, Ryzen 5 5600G and Ryzen 3 5300G are here, and they're AMD’s answer to systems that maybe don’t need to game at 4K at the highest settings, or systems that need some decent compute power to smoothly navigate Windows with a side of light gaming. You can read more about that in our reviews of the Ryzen 7 5700G and Ryzen 5 5600G.