AMD Ryzen 7 4700G 8-core APU spotted – and could be launched soon

Image pops up with OPN code that matches a previous leak

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AMD’s Ryzen 7 4700G, the 8-core ‘Renoir’ APU which has been the subject of much speculation of late, is soon to be released according to the latest rumor, which is backed up with a purported image of the chip.

We’ve been hearing a lot about the 4700G recently, and the weight of evidence pointing to the existence of the alleged APU is getting pretty heavy now – and this is certainly another hefty addition to the rumor pile, coming courtesy ofVideocardzwhich published an image of the chip.

According to the report, this is a picture of the final product, and the source who supplied it says that it “shouldn’t be long” before we see the Renoir range ofRyzen 4000desktop APUs on the shelves.

As per previous speculation, the Ryzen 7 4700G will run with 8-cores and 16-threads, doubling up compared to the quad-core Ryzen 5 3400G fromAMD’s existing range ofRyzen 3000desktop APUs. It’s also expected to have a base clock of 3.6GHz, plus Radeon Vega integrated graphics with 8 compute units (CUs) clocked at 2100MHz.

We’ve seen no less than three separate leaks pop up pertaining to the 4700G in just the last week: firstly fromTUM_APISAK and Komachion Twitter, then @_rogamechimed inwith a leaked game benchmark, and finallyIgor’s Lab publishedthe (alleged) full Renoir APU portfolio.

Now we have this latest spillage from Videocardz and it’s worth noting that the pictured 4700G chip has the same OPN (ordering part number) as an 8-core APU presented in the portfolio details provided by Igor’s Lab (100-000000146).

All adding up?

Everything is all adding up, or so it would seem, but as ever with anything from the hardware rumor mill, we still need to be careful about getting too carried away.

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If the latest source is right, though, with the launch happening soon – which certainly makes sense given the copious amount of leaking activity around the 4700G in recent times – we won’t have long to wait to find out the truth behind the purported 8-core APU.

We’ve also heard that there are potentially a couple of 8-core Renoir APUs undergoing testing, one of which wasclocked slower at around 3GHz(with integrated graphics at 1750MHz). So we may even see more than one version of an 8-core Renoir APU (which again is backed up by that portfolio spilled by Igor’s Lab).

Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).

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