With an almost 50 percent difference in price
The Ryzen 7 8700G processor is the undisputed leader in iGPU performance in the market in general and in the desktop segment in particular, if we are talking about x86-bit CPUs. Tests show that the junior Ryzen 5 8600G is also very good.
In Full HD resolution, the older model is on average only 10% faster than the younger one, and this despite the fact that it has 50% more stream processors in the graphics core. This suggests that there is a significant limitation that prevents the top-end Radeon 780M from revealing its potential.
When automatically overclocked using PBO mode, the performance of the Radeon 760M increases by approximately 15%, the same as the Radeon 780M. In this mode, the discrete GTX 1650 is 20% faster than the Radeon 760M. We've already seen that good RAM overclocking greatly improves iGPU performance, and the Radeon 760M could probably beat the GTX 1650 quite well, but it's unlikely that anyone would buy expensive DDR5 overclocking memory with the Ryzen 5 8600G, which costs $230 .
As for applications, the six-core Ryzen 5 8600G performs almost at the level of the slightly cheaper Core i5-13400 and the slightly more expensive Ryzen 5 7600X. At the same time, the new product is faster than the eight-core Ryzen 7 5700G and much faster than its direct predecessor.
In terms of power consumption, the Ryzen 5 8600G consumes between 50 and 80 W under load.