It's been a long time coming, but finally a pair of gaming-capable Zen 3-powered APUs are coming from AMD: the Ryzen 7 5700G and Ryzen 5 5600G will be available on August 5, priced at $359 and $259 respectively.

They will be available on existing 400-series and 500-series motherboards and offer pretty decent performance from the looks of it. They also come with coolers and can be overclocked.

While the previous generation of APUs, led by the Ryzen 5 3400G, focused primarily on 720p gaming for smooth frame rates, this new generation is pursuing 1080p performance. AMD, in a briefing prior to the Computex announcement, showed a Hi- Rez Sutdios's Rogue Company averaged 78 fps when using high settings at 1080p.

Not bad for integrated graphics.

We also couldn't help but throw shade at Intel's product by showing the Ryzen 7 5700G performing twice as well in games like Warframe and Fortnite when compared to the Core i7 11700.

In case you were wondering, these Intel chips use Intel's UHD Graphics 750 silicon and not the recently developed Xe core. Similarly, these new APUs do not use AMD's recent RDNA 2 architecture or even RDNA 1, and are still resolutely Vega parts.

Nevertheless, the full chip specs are quite readable and competitive with AMD's current offerings. The latest next-generation NVMe SSDs will still work, but these chips will not reach their full potential and are limited to 3,500 MB/sec.

Still, this one issue aside, it seems to be a good option for those who want to build a gaming machine on a budget. Of course, the 5700G with eight compute units capable of running at 2.0 GHz is preferable, but the $100 cheaper 5700G with seven compute units at 1.9 GHz might be better. However, a $100 cheaper 1.9GHz 7CU might be better.

AMD actually announced these chips back in April, but at that time they were only available to OEMs. At the time there was a third chip, the Ryzen 5 5300G, a 4 core, 8 thread, 6 CU APU, but that appears to have made the cut. Too bad, as it was a more affordable option.

August 5 suddenly seems far away.