PC builders won’t be able to buy the new Ryzen 4000 G-series processors for their own custom desktop creations. Instead, they’re being sold exclusively to branded vendors such as Lenovo and HP.
(Credit: AMD) AMD is making a big push into the prebuilt desktop PC market by releasing 18 new CPU processors that come with Radeon Graphics onboard. The AMD Ryzen 4000 G-series are set to power a new wave of enterprise, consumer, and gaming PCs, including all-in-one computers. But for now, the processors will be available only to PC manufacturers, such as HP and Lenovo. So you won’t be able to buy them for your own desktop tower creations. The 7nm chips use the existing Zen 2 architecture, not the upcoming Zen 3, which is expected to debut in a new family of AMD processors later this year. (For PC builders looking to create a custom unit now, the company last month released the Ryzen 3000XT series.) SEE ALSO: Snapdragon 865 Plus Bumps Up Speed, Wi-Fi Performance The big selling point of the 18 new processors unveiled today is the inclusion of on-chip Radeon Graphics. AMD has long called this specific class of silicon “Accelerated Processing Units,” or APUs. The key benefit: You (or a PC maker) won’t necessarily need to shell out extra money to buy a dedicated GPU in order to play games, or run 3D-modeling programs.
