AMD Hawk Point made a sensation in Geekbench: tests showed a significant increase in performance

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AMD Ryzen 7 8700G has 8 cores, 16MB of level 3 cache memory, 4.2-5.1GHz clock speed, 65W TDP. Price: $330.

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G is a 6-core, 12-threaded processor, 16MB of level 3 cache memory, 4.3-5.0 GHz, price: $230.

Test results showed that Ryzen 7 8700G provides 64% performance gain in multi-threaded test and 37% performance gain in single-threaded test (relative to Ryzen 5 5700G). The Ryzen 5 8600G outperformed the Ryzen 5 5600G by 50% in the multi-threaded test and 29% in the single-threaded test.

This CPU upgrade is exciting, but it's worth noting that the performance difference might not have been as significant if AMD released successors every year.