AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G Renoir APU review - Introduction

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G review
And hunting limitations on ASUS ROG STRIX B550-I GAMING

Today we bring you an article written by 1USMUS, who you know from the DRAM calculator for Ryzen, yes that little latency demon of ours is back with some fresh content. There is a new hybrid processor in town, meet the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. The uniqueness of this event is that the processor series announced and released a few weeks ago should not have got into the retail. However, thanks to East Asia, these processors got onto the retail and e-tail grey markets and can very simply be ordered and purchased. With Yuri's technical and programming background, and the equipment to test it properly, we've happily give him the opportunity to once again write up some detailed content. A slight notice in advance, we'll look at the APU performance, but also combination in memory frequencies and timings as well as the ASUS ROG STRIX B550-I GAMING motherboard. That said, I'll hand over the content to 1USMUS with the note that the formatting and review style is slightly off compared to what you are used too from us;

Continuing the tradition of non-standard reviews, today there will be really special material. First of all, under my overclocker-roller, there is a new hybrid processor AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. With the products available in the market, there are no embargoes either. Secondly, this article will place a bit of focus on the ASUS ROG STRIX B550-I GAMING, a record-breaking Mini ITX DRAM overclocker motherboard based on the latest B550 chipset logic. A motherboard that has everything in a very tine form factor, at the same time it is considerably cheaper than the older brothers of the heavyweights in the face of the X570. But now, let's get it in order.

The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G is based on the same crystal as the mobile Ryzen 4000. It has what we refer to these days, a monolithic (non-chiplet) design, so that's one big die holding it all. The area of the 7-nm crystal is 156 mm2, on which there are six Zen 2 cores and seven Vega CU with fifth-generation GCN architecture for the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G tested today. The heat generation package is rated 65 Watts for the G series and 35 Watts for the GE series. There are also options with 8 CU / 8 cores and 6 CU / 4 cores, which in turn allows you to cover all price segments. We focus on the six-core part in this review.

AMD has made some bold claims that it has achieved a total of 2.5 times the processing power advantage and 60 percent graphics speed improvement over its predecessor, Picasso, through improvements and core growth.

High performance for a more acceptable price is probably the main reason why AMD did not plan to release this product in retail network in the near future, because AMD managed to create a competitor to their own processors. The second weighty reason is to push Intel into the OEM segment, where processors with integrated graphics core are in demand first of all.

As for us end-users and thus consumers, for the same price, we get the same Zen 2 processor, but it accelerates better and has a built-in GPU, which will allow you to painlessly move to a new graphics card without using temporary "plugs", that or use that IGP for low-level gaming or accelerating applications.

I want to say explicitly that there is no difference in performance between 4750G and 4700G, the former has a PRO prefix, which means that the processor is equipped with a set of "professional" functions to ensure security. There are no lockouts or restrictions. The same goes for other Renoir processors in AM4 version.