Laptop with 16 cores already possible?

[wo0t]

Has someone already tested whether it is possible, to successfully put a 3950x CPU into one of those AMD Ryzen laptops?
For example the Acer Predator Helios 500 DTR with a Ryzen 7 2700 Vega 56 GPU.

I guess a new BIOS is needed for that and you may have to run it with the 65W "ECO" mode for some minor performance loss.
 

 

[Anomnomnomaly]

I doubt the coolling in most current laptops can handle the TDP of the 3950X and what's the point of underclocking a top of the line CPU to make it perform worse than a lower spec CPU just so you can have a 16 core CPU in a laptop.

[Theguywhobea]

5 minutes ago, wo0t said:

Has someone already tested whether it is possible, to successfully put a 3950x CPU into one of those AMD Ryzen laptops?
For example the Acer Predator Helios 500 DTR with a Ryzen 7 2700 Vega 56 GPU.

I guess a new BIOS is needed for that and you may have to run it with the 65W "ECO" mode for some minor performance loss.
 

 

Yeah with some BIOS hack's I'm sure it would work and turn on, just don't think the power and cooling would hold up though. You'd probably get similar performance to the standard R7 2700

[TempestCatto]

6 minutes ago, Anomnomnomaly said:

what's the point of underclocking a top of the line CPU to make it perform worse than a lower spec CPU

Tell that to Apple

[.Apex.]

13 minutes ago, Anomnomnomaly said:

I doubt the coolling in most current laptops can handle the TDP of the 3950X and what's the point of underclocking a top of the line CPU to make it perform worse than a lower spec CPU just so you can have a 16 core CPU in a laptop.

13 minutes ago, Theguywhobea said:

Yeah with some BIOS hack's I'm sure it would work and turn on, just don't think the power and cooling would hold up though. You'd probably get similar performance to the standard R7 2700

You're forgetting that the 7nm parts are much more power efficient, a 3950X is only consuming 135W which is similar to an overclocked 2700X, you only need to downclock it a little bit to match the stock 2700X TDP or even lower and lets assume that it's at 3.5Ghz, with the IPC increase that would be matching the 2700X in single core performance.

[wo0t]

In some benchmarks a 3950x at 65W(like the 2700 in the Acer Predator) is 2x faster than a 2700x. It's 7nm.

https://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-9-3950x-zen-2-review?page=4

[.Apex.]

Besides there's also 9900K laptops which already consume more than the 3950X at stock, I don't see how this would be difficult.

[wo0t]

XMG made it possible and built the fastest laptop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrTiE1va79c
16 cores@LN2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrTiE1va79c&t=870

[Lord Vile]

On 1/18/2020 at 2:39 PM, TempestCatto said:

Tell that to Apple

Will you still laugh when that underclocked chip melts “better” windows chips in a drag race of premier vs Final cut?