Ryzen mobile speculations

[arniks8]

I'm looking at some laptop's for university and think 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?

[arniks8]

Bumpity bump

[mariushm]

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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.

 

https://www.pcper.com/category/tags/great-horned-owl

 

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Lastly we have their new embedded R-Series APUs, Great Horned Owl, Banded Kestrel, Grey Hawk and River Hawk.  These low power chips will be based off of the current Zen architecture with support for single and dual DIMM DDR4 channels.  The CPU portion will have 2 or 4 cores and TDPs between 15-65W, Owl models will be paired with an graphics core possessing 11 CUs, Kestral with 3 CUs.  According to the slides posted at wccftech the APUs will support 4K60 and up to four 4K monitors which is impressive for such a small chip.  There will also rumoured to be models without an APU, for usage in device which do not need graphical capabilities. 

The slides also hint at a mysterious a new MCM package product which will arrive this year.  It is reputed to have 4 GB VRAM, 10 CUs and five dual-mode Display Port support arriving in 2017. 

 

here you go

 

 

 

Horned Owl Zen cores 4 cores / 8 threads 15-65w tdp

Banded Kestrel 2 ores / 4 threads later

 

 

[grimreeper132]

ryzen mobile will be coming this year I think it was Q4 but there is a 8 core ryzen coming out "this summer" from ASUS, last time I checked there wasn't a release date for it, but that might of changed now

 

https://rog.asus.com/articles/g-series-gaming-laptops/ryzen-comes-to-gaming-laptops-in-the-rog-strix-gl702zc/