PC World - USA (2019-07)

JULY 2019 PCWorld 15

of 1,250MHz).

The Ryzen 5 3400G will now ship with a

beefier Wraith Spire cooler rated for 95 watts.

AMD also said it has replaced using a

composite “paste” like thermal interface

material with a “high-quality metal” one too.

Officials told us it’s basically the equal of a

indium gallium solder on the new chip. That

feature Radeon
Vega 8 GPU cores
running at
1,250MHz. The
new APU will come
with a Wraith
Stealth cooler.
Compared to
the previous Ryzen
3 2200G, the
newer Ryzen
3200G (go.
pcworld.com/ryz3)
will run about
300MHz faster on
the CPU side and
about 150MHz
faster on the GPU
side. Budget
gamers will be
especially pleased
by the price
though: AMD will
still charge $99 for
the APU.
The $149 Ryzen
5 3400G justifies its higher price by outfitting
its quad-core CPU with simultaneous multi-
threading. It’ll run at 4.2GHz on boost (about
300MHz faster than the previous Ryzen 5
2400G) and have a base clock of 3.7GHz. The
graphics are faster too, upgrading to Radeon
RX Vega 11 graphics that run at slightly higher
clocks than its predecessor (1,400MHz instead

AMD’s newest APU’s are the same price but slightly faster.

The Ryzen 3 3200G and Ryzen 5 3400G fill out AMD’s lineup of new CPUs but

just don’t think you get the latest process inside.