Zen 2s full efficiency potential tested - Ryzen Renoir APU runs Crysis one without needing a cooler at all

[5x5]

So apparently the peak efficiency has arrived. This is a Quad-Core CPU with decent integrated graphics running one of the most demanding games of the past decade without a cooler and without overheating.

 

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Thoughts? Well, I can safely say passive laptops will become incredibly interesting with the 4300U

 

Source:https://www.pcgamer.com/wow-this-new-amd-ryzen-laptop-cpu-can-run-crysis-even-without-a-cooler/?utm_content=bufferb5ae9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_pcgamerfb

[MoonlightSylv]

That seems really impressive, imagine a virtually silent gaming laptop.

[Cheeky Leo]

2 hours ago, MoonlightSylv said:

That seems really impressive, imagine a virtually silent gaming laptop.

Just wait for coil whine

[thewill102]

I might be wrong, but there seems to be an external fan on the left thats blowing air in the general direction of the APU, so not really THAT passive, but still ikmpressive that it can run without an IHS or Heatsink in any form

[Dabombinable]

19 minutes ago, thewill102 said:

I might be wrong, but there seems to be an external fan on the left thats blowing air in the general direction of the APU, so not really THAT passive, but still ikmpressive that it can run without an IHS or Heatsink in any form

We're going back to the days of no heatsinks and huge leaps forwards

[Master Disaster]

26 minutes ago, thewill102 said:

I might be wrong, but there seems to be an external fan on the left thats blowing air in the general direction of the APU, so not really THAT passive, but still ikmpressive that it can run without an IHS or Heatsink in any form

Even the thinnest laptop will have at least one small fan creating airflow somewhere inside the chassis. Seems to be a pretty fair comparison to me.

[Master Disaster]

7 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

We're going back to the days of no heatsinks and huge leaps forwards

Just a shame that 5nm is pretty much the limit of silicon without changing the process significantly or using a compound.

[porina]

Ooh, while I saw the tweet previously the video on that was too low quality to see any detail. The article with youtube link offers a bit more insight as to what's happening.

 

While Crysis was running, it was essentially running off the soft thermal throttle, which is no surprise. CPU temps remained over 90C the whole time, GPU part was slightly cooler in the 80's. Total reported power consumption on the CPU was somewhere just over 1W, most of it on a single core, and the GPU bounced around 4-12W. Given the CPU is rated at 15W TDP, it isn't showing its full potential here. It doesn't take that much cooling to deal with 15W.

 

The main wow factor here was the ability to "see" the functional blocks of the CPU heat up in the thermal imaging, which obviously can only be done without a cooler obscuring it.

[leadeater]

32 minutes ago, porina said:

The main wow factor here was the ability to "see" the functional blocks of the CPU heat up in the thermal imaging, which obviously can only be done without a cooler obscuring it.

Wasn't even going to bother to watch the vid until you mentioned this, will now though.

[RejZoR]

If only AMD could apply same efficiency to their Radeon products. Man, that would be insane.

[Doobeedoo]

That's pretty neat. 

On the other hand Crysis remaster is coming! 

[5x5]

2 hours ago, RejZoR said:

If only AMD could apply same efficiency to their Radeon products. Man, that would be insane.

I mean they already kind of do, though. The 5700 XT and 2070 Super/5700 and 2060 Super use pretty similar amounts of power and produce pretty similar amounts of heat. It's not the days where they had doubled numbers (290X Vs 980)

[givingtnt]

Time to change my pfp
Apparently computers cannot be on fire anymore.

[Drama Lama]

But can It run crysis 2 ?

[Curious Pineapple]

Finally a CPU that won't overheat in a Macbook

[TetraSky]

NICE. You know what this means? Thinner laptops! ... Which also means, worse battery life than before.

[soldier_ph]

Nice, the first CPU that can run Crysis no doubt and without any problems.

[paddy-stone]

18 hours ago, TetraSky said:

NICE. You know what this means? Thinner laptops! ... Which also means, worse battery life than before.

TBH I can't remember the last time I saw someone actually using a laptop without it being plugged in to a power source and sitting on a desk

[Dabombinable]

5 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

TBH I can't remember the last time I saw someone actually using a laptop without it being plugged in to a power source and sitting on a desk

Too many bad memories of people nearly having their...lower portion...being fried by Macbooks?

[Froody129]

6 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

TBH I can't remember the last time I saw someone actually using a laptop without it being plugged in to a power source and sitting on a desk

I think that's a symptom of a problem rather than people just not wanting good battery life 

[yian88]

On 6/16/2020 at 11:12 AM, Dabombinable said:

We're going back to the days of no heatsinks and huge leaps forwards

Phones have been doing this for ages... its just X86 architecture that was shit and behind.

[AnonymousGuy]

41 minutes ago, yian88 said:

Phones have been doing this for ages... its just X86 architecture that was shit and behind.

You don't understand how cpu architectures work.

[eeeee1]

cries in ryzen 9

[5x5]

41 minutes ago, yian88 said:

Phones have been doing this for ages... its just X86 architecture that was shit and behind.

You may want to do some reading up on x86 and ARM before posting such statements

[Drama Lama]

1 hour ago, 5x5 said:

You may want to do some reading up on x86 and ARM before posting such statements

I think x 86 is getting overloaded 

and there will be a time where we all might game on ARM or RISC V CPUs

the reason intel ( and AMD ) still has basically a PC and Server monopoly is that people are too lazy to port everything to a better architecture 

but U can understand this laziness