Ryzen mobile speculations

[arniks8]

I didn't get any input on CPU hardware section, but maybe someone here wants to discuss.

 

I'm looking at some laptop's for university and thinking whether or not to wait for mobile ryzen (no point in buying the laptop before semester, so I can wait till 1st September). There would be some light CAD and some other stuff with making programms and testing them (I can't be more specific, because I don't know what's it gonna be like). I'm leaning towards a laptop with HQ i5 (I think it would serve well) coupled with 1050, so maybe if needed I could take leverage of cuda and could do some light gaming in the long winter evening's.

 

Any thoughts on what could I expect from ryzen? Then again does 4 core ryzen scale against 4 core Intel in productive workloads?

 

Finally what would be a realistic timeline to see ryzen laptops in stores and wouldn't those cost a premium at start?

[mariushm]

AMD focuses now on releasing Threadripper , Epyc and Ryzen 3

From memory their plans were to then have an APU version for socket AM4 using Zen cores , not what's sold now by OEMs like HP, those AM4 cpus use the older architecture.

I think the APUs are supposed to have a Vega light graphics card and potentially 2GB or 4GB HBM2 for graphics side

 

For laptop cpus , i really don't know but it wouldn't surprise me if they'll try to make a die with a single core complex (right now all Ryzen processors are made from silicon dies which contain 8 cores grouped in 2  core complexes, each core complex with 4 cores/8 threads.

With half the die they'd have a cpu with 4 cores/8 threads and a 25-35w TDP (since theres ryzen 1700 with 8 cores on 65w tdp) maybe even less,making it competitive on laptops. They could kill 2 cores and have 2 core/4 threads in <15w TDP i think.

This could be combined with some light graphics and HBM2 memory to get all in one chip solution.

[WkdPaul]

28 minutes ago, arniks8 said:

I didn't get any input on CPU hardware section, but maybe someone here wants to discuss.

 

That's not how it works.

 

Locked, making multiple threads about the same topic isn't allowed (spam rule).

 

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