I'm having a hard time choosing wether to upgrade my Ryzen 5 2400G with a separate compatible graphics card or is it much better to just upgrade the CPU that comes with integrated graphic. Your thoughts?

I mainly use it for gaming and video editing. I want to review my options if it is worth it to spend more but if the advantages are only in the slightest I wouldn't mind settling with a more budget friendly upgrade.

There is a lot of confusion these days around integrated graphics. Amd has been changing it naming scheme up, and mixing in old parts with new parts. Intel has had some bad press recently around failing cpus, but also has introduced and taken away avx512 instructions.

For someone who wants to watch videos, game, and emulate, what would be a tier list for integrated graphics? I've heard rpcs3 doesn't like intel igpus.

I made a table with all low-power AMD CPUs with powerful integrated graphics that can be still stumpled upon when looking for cheap-ish thin and light laptop. Since current naming scheme can be very confusing, I hope it can help someone.

First image shows the lineup sorted by architecture and core count:

Next we can look at the same lineup sorted by name:

Aside from 5000 series, where, despite the name, 3 processors are Zen 2, the most confusing is 7000 family:

If last two digits are 20, then it's Zen 2 with heavily cut-down RDNA 2 and DDR4.

If last two digits are 30, then it's Zen 3 with Vega graphics and DDR4.

If last two digits are 35, then it's Zen 3+ with RDNA 2 graphics and DDR5. HP-exclusive model is also there, ends with 36.

If last two digits are 40, then it's Zen 4 with RDNA 3 graphics and DDR5.

Remember this thing? Yeah.

Also, previously omitted, there are some older parts (and the newest AI expensive stuff):

I also wanted to somehow rank all the graphics based on notebookcheck.net data, but it's so tedious. There are 2x, 4x, 6x, and 12x of RDNA2 CUs; 3x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 10x of Vega CUs; and 4x, 8x, and 12x of RDNA3 (and also RDNA3+, but that's apparently just slightly optimized TSMC N4 process). It's not clear which random variant is faster than the other.

I recently played some party games on my Honor laptop with 5500U (6c12t Zen2, Vega 7, 16GB DDR4-3200). Older titles run fine in 1080p (MK9, Injustice, Overcooked 2, NFS Shift, Civ4), but Injustice 2 demanded dropping resolution to 720p. So i started to wonder what other APU options are there, that could give some more GPU performance (don't care much about CPU, since Zen 2 is still enough for most games). Which led to this little research.

I didn't look at H, HS and HX parts with bigger TDP since those are usually paired with descrete GPUs. That's all!