Guest_Jim_* Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 CES 2019 is going on this week, so you can expect a bunch of news to be coming out. Starting it off is an announcement from AMD that actually released yesterday concerning its mobile APUs. On the hardware-side of the announcement, because there is also big news on the software side, the second generation of Ryzen Mobile Processors, the 3000 Series Mobile Processors, have been announced with specifications given. Though it is the 3000 series, these processors are all being made on the current 12 nm process we find the 2000 series desktop CPUs made on, and not the 7 nm process of future processors. At the top of the stack is the Ryzen 7 3750H, a 4 core/8 thread part with a base clock of 2.3 GHz and boost clock of 4.0 GHz combined with 10 Vega GPU cores with a maximum clock speed of 1400 MHz. The Ryzen 7 3700U actually has the same specifications except for TDP. The 3750H has a TDP of 35 W while the 3700U is a 15 W chip, which means we should expect the 3750H to maintain its boost clocks longer than the 3700U, though at the cost of battery life. Under these two Ryzen 7 3000 APUs are the Ryzen 5 3550H and 3500U that are a similar match, with the only specification difference being the TDP (3550H has a 35 W TDP and the 3500U has a 15 W TDP). They are again 4 core/8 thread chips with a base clock of 2.1 GHz, a boost clock of 3.7 GHz, combined with 8 Vega cores with a maximum frequency of 1200 MHz. Below these we have the Ryzen 3 3300U, a 4 core/4 thread CPU with 2.1 GHz base, 3.5 GHz boost, 6 Vega Cores at a max of 1200 MHz, and Ryzen 3 3200U with only 2 cores/4 threads, a base clock of 2.6 GHz, boosting to 3.5 GHz, with 3 Vega cores at a max of 1200 MHz. Both of those Ryzen chips have a 15 W TDP. Lastly we have the Athlon 300U, with 2 cores/4 threads, 2.4 GHz base, 3.3 GHz boost, 3 Vega cores at a maximum frequency of 1000 MHz. We should be start seeing laptops using these processors in 2019Q1 from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Huawei, Lenovo, and Samsung, with more coming throughout the year. As nice a product stack as that might be, the news that might be more important for some is the announcement that Radeon Software Adrenalin, AMD's GPU drivers package, will support the company's Ryzen Processors with Radeon Graphics starting this quarter. This is covers all of the Ryzen APUs, and not just these new 3000 series APUs, which means those currently using a system with one of those processors will be able to get the latest features and optimizations alongside users with discrete desktop graphics cards. There is a bit more hardware news from this announcement, as AMD also revealed its 7th generation A-Series processors for Google Chromebooks, starting with the Acer Chromebook 315 and HP Chromebook 14. These chips are not based on the Zen or Vega architectures. Both of the chips are 2 core/2 thread processors with a 6 W TDP. The A6-9220C has a base clock of 1.8 GHz and a boost of 2.7 GHz combined with an R5 Series GPU with 3 cores and 192 shaders on GCN 1.2 running at a maximum of 720 MHz. The A4-9120C has a base clock of 1.6 GHz, boost of 2.4 GHz, and uses an R4 Series GPU, still with 2 cores, 192 shaders on GCN 1.2, but with a maximum frequency of 600 MHz. On January 9 AMD's president and CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, will be delivering a keynote address at CES so we may see more announcements then. Source: AMD Back to original news post Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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