The AMD Ryzen 7500G & 7300G chips aren't official but they make me wonder why we bother naming schemes.

Remember when component naming schemes used to be simple? I don't. I remember when they weren't so confusing as they are now. Unfortunately, manufacturers are determined to keep me on my feet, and these Ryzen Pro spottings of 7300G and 8500G confirm this.

QYE posted a picture on the Chinese discussion forum Chiphell showing off AMD Ryzen 3 Pro and Ryzen 5 Pro. These chips are not real. All of the "G" SKUs in recent years are in the 8000 series: Ryzen 7 (8700G), Ryzen 5 (8600G and 8500G), and Ryzen 3 (8303G).

VideoCardz explains that the fact that these 7000G chips are available (whether they have the "Pro" business moniker attached or not) means that they're prerebranded versions 8500G and 8000G chips--early versions before AMD rebranded them as the 8000 series. This does little more than reminds me that AMD decided on dedicating the entire desktop 8000 series generation to "G", processors. These are accelerated processing units with integrated RDNA3 graphics.

Oh, but AMD also introduced two "F" chips earlier this year into the 8000 series line-up: The Ryzen 7 8700F ad Ryzen 5 8400F. The "F" is a designator of disabled graphics. This is similar to Intel's nomenclature. As our Jeremy pointed out, this effectively turns these APUs (8700G and 8400G), into CPUs.

It's the same company that gave out a decoder to decipher their own naming conventions. They have CPUs and graphics cards with or very nearlythe same names. You can buy an RX 7700X to go with your Ryzen 7 7700X.

AMD's new Ryzen 9000 series is the successor to the 7000-series for through-and-through processors. This generational leap will also likely correspond to a jump in motherboard generation. AMD is expected to release motherboard chipsets from the 800-series for 9000 series CPUs.

They've still not abandoned the naming scheme. Intel seems to have abandoned Core 15th Gen branding in favor of Core Ultra 200 series branding. You know, after its Core Ultra 200-series branding... for lower-power processors and alongside more powerful 14th Gen Mobile ones.

Confused yet? I am. If I had the 7300G and the 7500G chips, I would use them as a meditation on the absurdity and arbitrariness in human categorisation. But that's just me.