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AMD has announced its new Ryzen 4000-series mobile APUs for laptops, including 8-core parts for both 15W and 45W TDPs. The new chips all support up to 64 GB of LPDDR4X memory.
At the 15W TDP, Ryzen 7 4800U has 8 "7nm" Zen 2 cores (16 threads), and 8 "7nm" Vega graphics compute units (CUs) which perform better than the 11 Vega CUs from the previous generation, due in part to a much higher 1750 MHz clock speed. There is also an 8c/8t/7CU Ryzen 7 4700U, 6c/12t/6CU Ryzen 5 4600U, 6c/6t/6CU Ryzen 5 4500U, and 4c/4t/5CU Ryzen 3 4300U.
At the 45W TDP, Ryzen 7 4800H has 8c/16t at a 2.9 GHz base frequency (compared to 1.8 GHz for the 4800U), but only 7 graphics CUs. Ryzen 5 4600H has 6c/12t with 6 CUs, and the Ryzen 7 4800HS is identical to 4800H except for a lower TDP, and will be an ASUS exclusive chip for the first six months.
At the low end, there are two new Zen-based 15W laptop chips, a 2 core, 4 thread Athlon Gold 3150U, and a 2 core, 2 thread Athlon Silver 3050U.
AMD's 64-core Threadripper 3990X will be available on February 7th for $3,990, double the price of the 32-core TR 3970X. A 48-core version was not mentioned.
AMD has launched Radeon RX 5700M and RX 5600M discrete GPUs for laptops to complement the RX 5500M that was previously launched. A mid-range Radeon RX 5600 XT desktop GPU was also announced.
Also at cnet.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 07 2020, @10:39PM (1 child)
Bit of a travesty that Apple did not switch to Threadrippers.
Sure, there's inertia and tweaks that have to be made, but it's x86.
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(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Wednesday January 08 2020, @12:30AM
Overpriced and behind the curve again... and the new Mac Pro's been out what, a few weeks or so.
Personally, I'd be interested in some mid-towers, a'la the mini but with slots for multiple graphics cards, upgradable memory, drives. Eight cores or better, hyperthreaded would be nice... but not required. My current machine is 12/24, so I'm a bit spoiled.
But, Apple... nope. They clearly don't want my money. Okay.
So I'm porting my applications to Windows, because at least there are decent, up to date mid-towers available at reasonable prices. Too bad. I really like OS X. But they refuse to upgrade my current machine's OS, and I'm not spending vehicle-equivalent-money on a lowball machine, either. My servers are already linux, and frankly, it's not that big a deal to move my apps to modern windows, as I built them all with Qt/c++; I've already moved the 2nd biggest one, and it went swimmingly.
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