Since the release of the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G, enthusiasts have been exploring the limits of this APU. In addition to Pieter "SkatterBencher" Plaisier's successful overclocking on the Ryzen 7 8700G APU, another overclocker, Roman "der8auer" Hartung, has successfully delidded the processor and conducted tests.
Roman "der8auer" Hartung found upon delidding that the APU uses a conventional thermal paste cooling solution, rather than the soldered design seen in Ryzen 7000 series processors.
In fact, this isn't the first time AMD has used thermal paste cooling for Ryzen processors; the previous AM4 Ryzen 2000G series processors also utilized it.
Der8auer utilized the Thermal Grizzly KryoSheet thermal pads and managed to overclock all cores to 5.0 GHz, resulting in a temperature drop of 10°C compared to the default 85°C. This improvement is quite significant. The performance in CINEBENCH R23 is only about 5% lower than that of the Ryzen 7 7700X.
Additionally, this expert replaced the thermal paste on the Ryzen 7 8700G with liquid metal, further overclocking it to 5.3 GHz. This led to a temperature decrease of around 25°C and a performance increase of 15% to 17%.
According to reports, the Ryzen 7 8700G features the Zen 4 architecture, with 8 cores and 16 threads. The CPU has a base clock of 4.2GHz and a boost clock of 5.1GHz, while the integrated graphics operate at a frequency of 2.9GHz.
