AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Ryzen 7 7700X ‘Zen 4’ Review

For Ryzen 7000, the IO Die includes the integrated GPU that features two RDNA 2 Compute Units.

AMD included this iGPU to allow them to cater for businesses who require iGPU capabilities for powering a display, without the need for a dGPU. As we have seen on the Intel side, though, the inclusion of a modern iGPU also has the benefit of allowing for competent media encode and decode capability.

Plus, there’s nothing stopping you doing some light gaming – as we did with GTA V at an actually playable frame rate for 1080p Low settings.

iGPU Media Consumption

AV1 decode is supported, as we tested successfully with 4K60 YouTube through Edge. 8K30 AV1 actually worked too, but this was running through the GPU rendering hardware rather than the efficient media decoder.

H264 and H265 4K60 content is handled without hassle through VLC Media player. Plus encode capability is supported.

And if you’re most interested in YouTube playback, we could watch 4K30 and 4K60 VP9 content successfully.

Display connectivity

Focusing on the main task for this iGPU, though – display connectivity, AMD highlights support for up to 4 independent displays. These can be connected via HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.0, and USB-C with DisplayPort Alt Mode. AMD suggests 4K60 display support, which we confirmed. Unfortunately, we have no means to test 8K displays.

Plus, you can run Hybrid graphics if you’d prefer to have the power efficiency benefits of connecting directly to the iGPU, with your dGPU set as a rendering device.

I’d call the RDNA 2 iGPU a nice, deal-sweetener inclusion; many people won’t use it, but many people will also find it valuable at some point, for one reason or another.

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