You are not the only players who are experiencing this crash, with or without APU processor. Some are even playing the game with older processor than yours.
So this could be an issue with the game? if so does EA know the problem?
Are you able to play Garden ops solo without crashing?
most of the time before today I was able to play 4 games of Garden ops in a row and then it suddenly started to freeze during that as well its kind of annoying
Yeah, your problem is similar to the typical crash. Garden ops solo is playable but not multiplayer games. So it's not really your computer, other people with different hardwares are experiencing the same symptoms.
