We already know about AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU's enjoyment of overclocked memory —early reviews demonstrated the graphical benefits granted by fiddling with "iGPU engine clock and the processor's memory frequency." While gamers can enjoy a boosted integrated graphics solution that is comparable in performance 1080p stakes to a discrete Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU, AI enthusiasts were eager to experiment with the "Hawk Point" Neural Processing Unit (NPU). One individual, chi11eddog , posted their findings through social media channels earlier today, coinciding with the official launch of Ryzen 8000G processors.

They performed a set of quick tests on AMD's freshly released Ryzen 7 8700G desktop processor, combined with an MSI B650 Gaming Plus WiFi motherboard and two sticks of 16 GB DDR5-4800 memory. The MSI exclusive "Memory Try It" feature was deployed further up in the tables—this assisted in achieving and gauging several "higher system RAM frequency" settings. Here is chi11eddog's succinct interpretation of benchmark results: "7600 MT/s is 15% faster than 4800 MT/s in UL Procyon AI Inference Benchmark and 4% faster in GIMP with Stable Diffusion." The first generation of Team Red's Ryzen AI XDNA NPU can unleash up to 16 AI TOPs—the APU's default memory state is capable of producing 210 Float32 TOPs, according to chi11eddog's inference chart. The 6000 MT/s setting produces a 7% improvement over baseline, while 7200 MT/s drives proceedings to 11%—the NPU appears to be quite dependent on bandwidth. Their GIMP w/ Stable Diffusion benchmarks taxed the onboard Radeon 780M iGPU—this part is also deemed to be bandwidth hungry.