Buying a 800$ Motherboard for a 100$ CPU is a big waste of money. At this point in time, if you consider an upgrade but don't need it right now, wait for Zen 4 this summer. Complete new AM5 Socket with DDR5 and PCIe gen 5, and Zen 4 will bring about a 30% performance improvement over Zen 3, or...
Did you update the core count in the kernel patches?
But AMD Laptops in general are not supported as their integrated graphics are not supported by macOS.
With the Nvidia your limited to macOS High Sierra. For anything newer you'd need a compatible AMD card (or a Kepler GT 700 series, that would fly till Big Sur)
Notice that it doesn't say "Metal Family: Supported" in the System Report?
You can get the drivers installed, but they still don't provide hardware acceleration on anything newer than High Sierra.
If you want to have your system running macOS stable and for a long time you should get the basics to understand what you're doing.
People are here to help if you get stuck, but asking others to do the work for you won't get you far.
Can you download VirtualSMC from https://github.com/acidanthera/VirtualSMC/releases and then run the smcread from the Tools folder?
./smcread -s | grep -e "TG"
@mmp369 Using a small App that keeps the CPU from down clocking: https://forum.amd-osx.com/index.php?threads/potential-temporary-fix-for-sound-garbling-issue-on-g-series-apus.1572/
Just a side note, the “RTC: Only Single RAM Bank” is not an indication of your problem. Almost all boards only advertise 128 bytes of RTC memory in the DSDT, even though modern boards have more. MacOS just logs this, but it has no effect. (You can fix that with an SSDT if you want to get rid of...
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