AMD’s Hawk Point Desktop APUs Emerge In Ryzen 5 PRO 7500G & Ryzen 3 PRO 7300G Flavors

AMD's Ryzen 5 PRO 7500G & Ryzen 3 PRO 7300G "Hawk Point" Desktop APUs have been spotted, revealing that the red team had different plans for the lineup.

Unlike how AMD went with the naming of their APUs in the earlier Ryzen lineups, the Zen 4-based APUs use a different naming scheme. However, the newly leaked pics of two Zen 4-based CPUs show that the name change was a last-minute plan by the company. The pics were leaked on the Chiphell forum, showing the Ryzen 5 Pro 7500G and Ryzen 3 Pro 7300G SKUs.

We know that these particular chips didn't make it to the market. Instead, the Ryzen 5 8500G and Ryzen 3 8300G were launched in the Zen 4 APU lineup along with the Ryzen 5 8600G and Ryzen 7 8700G. While we don't know if the latter two APUs were also planned to be the part of Ryzen 7000G series, it's most likely that they were since the naming convention change looks like a last-minute change.

One can easily see that these APUs were manufactured in 2022, which could mean that AMD may have planned to release them earlier than 2024. The Ryzen 5000G APUs were launched exactly after a year when Ryzen 5000 CPUs hit the market. The Ryzen 8000G APUs on the contrary took somewhat longer time. Going by the yearly numbering scheme, Ryzen 7000 belonged to the 2023 family, Ryzen 8000 belonged to the 2024 family and Ryzen 9000 belonged to the 2025 family. But AMD dropped these plans recently.

The AMD Ryzen 9000 Desktop CPUs launched in 2024 when the numbering series was originally meant to be introduced in 2025. The Ryzen 8000 APUs launched in 2024 so that's on time but the mobility lineup was launched at the tail end of 2023 and the follow-up, which should've also been Ryzen 8000 (Ryzen 8050) was changed to Ryzen AI 300 "Strix" series. The Ryzen AI 300 also used a different naming, Ryzen AI 100, before that was changed and we saw various samples during our Computex visit running Ryzen AI 9 165 and Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 APUs.

AMD released these APUs in January this year, roughly 1.5 years after the launch of the Ryzen 7000 series CPUs. Unlike the 8000G series, AMD released the Zen 3 APUs in the same Ryzen 5000 series with the Ryzen 5000G branding. However, the Ryzen 2000G series was based on the Zen architecture, unlike the regular Ryzen 2000 series CPUs which adopted the Zen+ cores. So, the naming change from 7000G to 8000G shouldn't surprise us that much.

It's possibly one of the reasons why AMD might have gone with the Ryzen 9000 naming with the Zen 5 CPUs instead of the Ryzen 8000. This probably also explains why AMD skipped the 700 chipset naming convention and has planned to release the 800 chipsets, including X870, X870E, B850, and B840. While the X870 and X870E are planned for launch in September, the B850 and B840 will be available in early 2025.

Both Ryzen 3 8300G and Ryzen 5 8500G fall in the Phoneix2 lineup and are based on the Zen 4 and Zen 4C architectures. The architecture is different from the higher-end chips, Ryzen 5 8600G and the Ryzen 7 8700G, which use only Zen 4 cores and are under the Phoenix1 lineup. The Ryzen 3 8300G is a 4-core, 8-thread, and the 8500G is a 6-core, 12-thread budget gaming APU aimed at entry-level gaming systems for users who want to skip a discrete GPU for playing video games. AMD launched the Ryzen PRO 8000 Desktop APUs back in April so these two APUs do exist, only under a new name.

News Source: Videocardz