At last year’s CES, AMD showcased its then Ryzen 3000 mobile processors as part of the announcements. In what is becoming a trend, at this year’s CES, the company is doing the same in announcing its next generation Ryzen 4000 mobile processors. This year is a little different, with AMD showing off its manufacturing strategy at TSMC 7nm for the first time in the mobile space. There’s a ton of options on the table, both at 15W and 45W, offering some really impressive core counts, frequencies, and most importantly, design wins. Here are all the details.
Let’s hope we’re getting choice and competition back in the laptop space.
I not waited to offer AMD my cash by buying a Lenovo IdeaPad 330 15ARR with a Ryzen 2500U 15W cpu. Not the strongest available, not the best machine out there, but really decent for the price. Maybe later time will I get a Ryzen 4OOO based laptop.
I wonder how they’ve solved the issue of idle power consumption in the Zen 2 uArch. Desktop Ryzen 3000 CPUs have at the very least 16W idle power consumption which is just insane.
@birdie: do you have any links for that? From what I have seen is that the cpus are just as good as intel at idle but that the chipsets and motherboards for Ryzen 3000 suck up a lot of juice. What happens when you put a Ryzen 3000 in a B450 board? I would guess it would idle really low.
https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-ryzen-5-3600-review,7.html
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-review,5571-12.html
https://www.legitreviews.com/amd-ryzen-9-3950x-processor-review_215425/8
https://www.techquila.co.in/amd-ryzen-3000-cpus-ccx-overclocking-idle-power/
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/ryzen-3000-series-rigs-have-high-idle-power-usage.2571969/
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/294596-amds-x570-chipset-draws-so-much-power-its-warping-cpu-comparisons
tl;dr : the motherboard, not the cpu
Asus’s new A15 is advertising 8.5 hours for web browsing, which is extremely impressive for a gaming laptop.
I wouldn’t buy a gaming laptop to do web browsing.
I was replying to Birdie, so your comment is irrelevant to my reply and the discussion in general. For those that do need a powerful laptop, but don’t want to spend 2-3k USD on it, a gaming one with 8.5 hours of battery life for browsing would be great. No sacrifices anymore.
Birdie, to which you were replying to, was referring to “idle power consumption” while you were writing about “gaming laptop to do web browsing”. Speaking of “comment irrelevance”, I wouldn’t go that soapy path. As for a powerful laptop costing 2-3k USG, what are you referring to ? Macbooks ? A gaming laptop costs more than 1k USD and idle power consumption is important because of all the additional components. A simple laptop with simple components is enough in most cases, there’s no general rules as to know which models will perform better but to benchmark them beforehand.
8.5 hour battery life proves they’ve solved their power consumption issues (if true once it releases). Those 2-3k laptops with GPUs and -H series processors are workstation class laptops, which are generally 3x the cost of gaming laptops. Plus most people don’t need the Quadro or AMD Pro GPUs found in workstation class machines for their work.
‘I wouldn’t buy a gaming laptop to do web browsing.’ > This comment here proves you spent 0 seconds trying to understand why an 8.5 hour battery life might be important to birdie’s comment on idle power consumption for new chips. It’s just a personal opinion that only serves to derail the discussion. Battery life and idle power consumption/web browsing power consumption are obviously highly related.
You’d be surprised how much a browser waste power, like on background js updating ads and so. Idle is, as its name implies, idle, so that means only static, non dynamic, web experience. And yeah, of course only a fraction of people really needs Quatro and stuff.