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AMD Announces Ryzen Mobile With Vega Graphics
AMD just announced the first two Ryzen Mobile processors with Vega graphics. AMD is going rather hardcore with the release of their Ryzen 5 2500U and Ryzen 7 2700U quad-core processors.
AMD has been readying two major notebook processors release that should be very competitive with Intel for the first time in nearly a decade. Codenamed “Raven Ridge,” it was built based on the same successful Zen architecture first released to the consumer PC market as Ryzen earlier this year. AMD’s Ryzen chips for desktops lack integrated graphics, but new Ryzen Mobile chips have both CPU and GPU features in a single package.
The first products embedded with one of these two (let’s call them APUs) will be in Q4 in the Holiday 2017 season. The energy-friendly procs will offer a truckload of performance in both the CPU and embedded GPU segment. Both SKUs will be based on a quad-core processor with 8 threads (SMT).
- Ryzen 5 2500U – 4 cores / 8 threads with a 2.0 GHz base frequency and boost allowance to 3.6 GHz. This SKU has 8 CUs and thus 512 shader processors based on Vega architecture. The GPU runs up-to 1100 MHz.
- Ryzen 7 2700U – 4 cores / 8 threads with a 2.2 GHz base frequency and boost allowance to 3.8 GHz. This SKU has 10 CUs and thus 640 shader processors based on Vega architecture. The GPU runs up-to 1300 MHz
If you look at the die shot, the graphics segment of the die is fairly huge, you may expect pretty nice performance there for a mobile part. The CPU and GPU are interconnected through AMD's Infinity Fabric high-speed IO interface.
The processor part is based on a 64K instruction, a 32K data cache (L1). The L2 cache is 512K per core and then there is a 4MB shared L3 cache. The TDP for the new mobile parts is configurable in a 9W to a 25W range, with 15 Watt being the nominal TDP. The mobile processors can be paired with DDR4-2400 MHz memory configured in dual-channel mode.
Below an overview of some of the more interesting slides from the AMD media slide-deck (download).
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#5485739 Posted on: 10/26/2017 03:19 PM
These could sell very good for them if priced right,and looking at the gaming performance not bad at all you can have a Decent gaming machine for really cheep.I would price them in the $135-$150 range they would sell like hot-cakes in my opinion.You pay for the cpu and get the -igpu for free basicly ( I think ) that's the way the old apu's were described.
These could sell very good for them if priced right,and looking at the gaming performance not bad at all you can have a Decent gaming machine for really cheep.I would price them in the $135-$150 range they would sell like hot-cakes in my opinion.You pay for the cpu and get the -igpu for free basicly ( I think ) that's the way the old apu's were described.
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#5485747 Posted on: 10/26/2017 03:27 PM
That looks even better than what the leaks were suggesting ie: TDP of 35W
For them to put that much power in that kind TDP looks great,definitely Intel has another front to be concerned about.
It says also a lot about GloFo process,namely that is optimized for low power.That is probably effect of them buying/co-developing 14nm node with Samsung.We see same effect of that node in Ryzen and VEGA, ryzen is great in TDP segment but want go over 4GHz unless you apply high voltages,and VEGA with it's high consumption probably AMD set to high clocks.
That looks even better than what the leaks were suggesting ie: TDP of 35W
For them to put that much power in that kind TDP looks great,definitely Intel has another front to be concerned about.
It says also a lot about GloFo process,namely that is optimized for low power.That is probably effect of them buying/co-developing 14nm node with Samsung.We see same effect of that node in Ryzen and VEGA, ryzen is great in TDP segment but want go over 4GHz unless you apply high voltages,and VEGA with it's high consumption probably AMD set to high clocks.
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#5485748 Posted on: 10/26/2017 03:27 PM
And with 8GB DDR4 limit. This is really GREAT!... Whops did I violate any NDA? I do not care at all.
And with 8GB DDR4 limit. This is really GREAT!... Whops did I violate any NDA? I do not care at all.
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#5485757 Posted on: 10/26/2017 03:41 PM
AMD being AMD this will be the same die as the Desktop APUs. I *think* there's supposed to be 11 GPU CUs on there, so 704 cores total? I guess we'll have to wait and see. Otherwise, these look quite promising.
AMD being AMD this will be the same die as the Desktop APUs. I *think* there's supposed to be 11 GPU CUs on there, so 704 cores total? I guess we'll have to wait and see. Otherwise, these look quite promising.
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These look great. They need to have good hardware to go along with them though. No single channel memory crap etc....