AMD silicon is the heart of the Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PlayStation 5, which means the Red Team is working hard to produce as much RDNA 2 and Zen 2 silicon as possible to meet demand. In other words, the Red Team is working hard to produce as much RDNA 2 and Zen 2 silicon as possible to meet demand. In doing so, they will accumulate a sizable collection of broken chips, where a few (or even millions) of transistors are out of standard; the AMD4700S may be included in this desktop kit, and the AMD4700S may be included in this desktop kit.

The AMD 4700S is a nearly complete package for a PC (via Videocardz). Underneath the included cooler is an 8-core CPU with AMD Zen 2, which is comparable in performance to the latest consoles and some Ryzen CPUs. Alongside this, there are also tell-tale signs that this chip is intended for consoles: it comes with 8GB or 16GB of GDDR6 memory.

Modern consoles use a shared memory pool, i.e. GDDR6 today, which is not found in gaming PCs: while GDDR6 provides sufficient bandwidth for the GPU, DDR4 is much better suited for common system memory tasks due to its lower latency. So there is no real reason for AMD to produce desktop kits with GDDR6 memory unless the chips are already rolling.

From the image from Disclosuzen on Twitter (via TechPowerUp), the memory should be located on the underside of the motherboard, under the extended rear heatsink. While this does not provide an optimal cooling solution for the memory, this machine is hardly at the forefront of PC performance.

The memory is most likely located on the underside of the PCB, which appears to be part of the PS5 SoC; Twitter leaker rogame has also found a matching trace between the 4700S and PS5, suggesting that this chip may have once been intended for Sony consoles. He suggests that this chip may have once been for a Sony console. Perhaps there is some provision in the chip manufacturing agreement between AMD and Sony that allows AMD to use or purchase chips not used by Sony, but it is impossible to say for sure. [Despite sharing the Zen 2 architecture with AMD's Ryzen 3000 chip, this is not technically a Ryzen product; AMD's 4700S page shows a round logo that I assumed was the Ryzen logo, but perhaps this is instead the Zen architecture. In any case, AMD is clearly trying to avoid the Ryzen brand here.

To build the entire kit, the CPU and memory are paired with a fairly basic motherboard, with two SATA ports, a 1Gbps LAN port, eight USB ports, basic audio output from the I/O, and two headers for additional USB connections. However, there is no M.2 NVMe port and only one PCIe 2.0 x4 slot for a single GPU.

You will need to provide your own slots. This kit does not come with a GPU. If this is a chip taken from a console, it should run an RDNA 2 GPU with 56, 36, or 20 powerful compute units, depending on the console.

That's a real shame. An APU with console graphics would be invaluable.

Only a few graphics cards are officially listed as compatible with the 4700S: AMD's RX 500 series and Nvidia's GT 710, 730, GTX 1050, 1050 Ti and 1060. Further compatibility is not specified, but the GPU limitation is likely due to the low PCIe bandwidth of the boards. See the Installation and Warranty booklet (PDF warning) for system specs.

In any case, you would not want to build a gaming PC around this board. Its performance will be nowhere near that of the latest gaming machines.

In graphics cards, wafers that are not up to grade are generally why you end up with cards like the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which is built on a slightly less powerful version of the GA104 GPU otherwise found in the GeForce RTX 3070. Microsoft would employ the same tactic with chips that were not employed in the Xbox Series X and instead find a home in the Xbox Series S. But if you've ever wondered what happens to chips that are no longer used in the console world, or to non-functioning parts that have no clear use, the AMD 4700S should give you an idea of where they end up.

Waste not, want not.