AMD Ryzen APUs vs INTEL 8th Gen On Mobile Platform And Entry Gaming Laptops

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AMD Ryzen CPUs And Benchmark In Mobile Platform Leaked And Ryzen Seems Competitive

The Ryzen 7 2700U and Ryzen 5 2500U are out and both are quad-core processors with eight-threads and integrated Radeon Vega Graphics. The 2700U has a base clock speed of 2.2GHz with boost to 3.8GHz, and 10 CUs (compute units). The 2500U drops things back a bit to a base clock of 2GHz with boost to 3.6GHz, along with 8 CUs. Both have a default TDP of 15W. AMD has given us benchmarks to demonstrate the power of the new Ryzen CPUs, In Cinebench R15 (CPU multi-thread performance), the Ryzen 7 2700U hits a score of 719 compared to Intel’s Core i7-8550U (latest-gen) mobile processor (in an Acer Spin 5 notebook) which scores 498. On the  PCMark 10 Extended benchmark hitting 163% over and above the performance of the AMD FX-9800P (which is picked as a baseline measure), compared to 133% for Intel’s CPU. The 8550U, however, wins at PassMark 9 to the tune of 188% plays 176%. In 3DMark’s Time Spy benchmark, the 2700U racked up score of 915 compared to 350 for Intel’s Core i7-8550U in an Acer Swift 3.

AMD Ryzen Mobile APUs Deliver 100% more than the Performance Of Old AMD’s CPUs

AMD has managed to increas its performance in desktop by making a smarter CPU rather than just making it stronger. This is also going to play well in mobile platforms. Smarter CPUs work by learning behaviors and making efficient use out of the most used data processing and files and apps. So in a way they are very individualized in terms of what sort of use the user have. The Ryzen 5 2500U  scored 9723 points in the multi-core part of the Geekbench4 test and 3625 points as single core. In comparison, AMD’s fastest mobile Bristol Ridge A12 9800B part scores nearly half the points in the multi-core test and more than 1200 points less in the single core test. Doubling the performance in a big deal in today processing technology that it seems that the tech giants are stock in increasing the processing speed and power. the first solution was using more CPUs so multi core cpus came to life, but now the next step seems to be processing efficiently.

Intel, on the other hand, has been dominating notebook CPU space with the 8th generation Kaby Lake-R chips by releasing the  Core i5-8250U. The “U” means an ultra-low power CPU for Intel and a standard mobile CPU for AMD. Geekbench scores seem to be in favor of Intel and not AMD. High end laptops like Asus ROG Strix GL702ZC already sport AMD Ryzen CPUs. AMD seems to be aiming at mainstream gaming market, Ryzen APU laptops are expected to become mainstream before the end of 2017. Lets wait and see what AMD has to offer in 2017.

Next Generation AMD CPUs And APUs Specs

WCCFTech AMD Summit Ridge AMD Pinnacle Ridge AMD Bristol Ridge AMD Raven Ridge AMD Gray Hawk
Product Architecture Zen Zen 2 Excavator Zen Zen 2
Process Node 14nm 14nm 28nm 14nm 14nm
CPU Cores Up to 8 Up to 8 Up to 4 Up to 4 Up to 4
GPU Architecture N/A N/A Caribbean Islands Vega Navi
TDP 65W-95W 65W-95W 15-65W TBA TBA
Socket AM4 AM4 AM4 AM4 AM4
Memory Support DDR4 DDR4 DDR4 DDR4 DDR4
Launch 2017 2018 2017 Q4 2017 2019
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AMD Ryzen New Mobile APU – CPUs Credit by AMD

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AMD Ryzen New Mobile APU – CPUs Credit by AMD

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AMD Ryzen New Mobile APU – CPUs Credit by AMD

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AMD Ryzen New Mobile APU – CPUs Credit by AMD

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