[SOLVED] APU feasibility for basic gaming

[rhoaddogg]

I'm planning on building a desktop gaming rig. With the insanity of GPU prices currently, am I better off buying a used mid level card? - Or, are any of the new AMD APU's able to buy me some time?

I did this a few years ago with an AMD a10 - ran off the APU for almost a year with decent performance. I mostly play Valorant and my son will likely use it for Fortnite.

 

[JWNoctis]

I'd recommend reading a few reviews with game benchmarks, and see if you'd find the graphic quality and framerate acceptable for the games you want to play.

If what I've read is accurate, a 5700G - for instance - should give you a bit more than 40fps on medium 1080p for Fortnite. I haven't played either of those games you've mentioned on my current-generation mobile APU myself, but many recent games should at least be playable on medium, and have good framerate on 720p low. Any older games should do just fine: Its performance would have been top-of-the-range, in 2010.

Just make sure to use a dual channel memory setup if you plan to rely on any sort of integrated GPU for a while, and not just that in an APU.

 

[InvalidError]

The IGP on 5xxx series APUs lands somewhere between the GTX1030 and GTX1050 depending on th game and settings. Not going to break benchmark records but should be workable at low-ish 1080p.

 

[Thia666]

valorant and fortnite is kinda easy to run.
you can play it with Ryzen APU, you need to set graphic setting to low.