AMD’s unreleased and unannounced Zen3-based APU is now for sale (and not surprisingly sold out already) in Ebay BUT in only in engineering sample form. For those who are not aware, engineering samples of CPUs are commonly used for testing by both the production team and near-final samples are often loaned to media for review prior to the once we see in retail or are referred to as retail samples.
AMD has yet to make any announcement about their Zen3-based APU to satisfy the entry-level market especially with GPUs becoming a thing of luxury these days. AMD’s Ryzen 5 5300G has made its way to the open market and was reviewed by Youtuber Hugo seen on the video above.
The video details the engineering sample that is designated as product 100-000000262-30_Y. This CPU is assumed to be the Ryzen 5 5300G and is the successor to the Ryzen 3 4300G which was only available for OEMs. The Ryzen 5 5300G features 4 cores and 8 threads and operates with a 3.5Ghz base clock with no boost clocks reported. The final product will most likely change this if it ends up being released.
The video only shows a couple of games, Battlefield 4 and V, running at 1920×1080 at High detail settings. The embedded Vega GPU runs at around 30 FPS at this setting but cranking the details lower bumps the performance to >90FPS on BF4 at 1080p low, in partciular.
CPU benchmarks shows us good single-threaded performance with the supposed 5300G performing better than a Ryzen 3 3300X. Cinebench R15 results also shows the 5300G sample beating out the 4350G.