AMD Launches the Ryzen 7 8700F & Ryzen 5 8400F
AMD formally launched the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F Socket AM5 desktop processors. These are variants based on the Ryzen 8000-series desktop APUs, but with their integrated graphics disabled. The 8700F may lack integrated graphics, but includes the Ryzen AI NPU, with up to 16 AI TOPS performance. The 8400F lacks an NPU.
The Ryzen 5 8400F is a 6-core/12-thread processor, but much like the 8500G, it is based on the “Phoenix 2” silicon, which has two “Zen 4” cores that can achieve the maximum 4.40 GHz boost frequency for this chip, and four “Zen 4c” that boost lower.
Both kinds of cores feature an identical IPC and ISA, and so AMD Chipset Software uses UEFI CPPC preferred cores software flags to prioritize workload to the “Zen 4” cores.
The company is pricing the 8700F at $269, or $60 cheaper than the 8700G; while the 8400F is priced at $169, or $10 less than the 8500G.
