Huge performance bump, AMD Launches 2nd Gen Ryzen Pro & Athlon Pro APUs
The new family of AMD’s 2nd generation Ryzen Pro Mobile processors includes four models: the Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U, the Ryzen 5 Pro 3500U, the Ryzen 3 Pro 3300U, and the Athlon Pro 300U.
AMD has already started to ship its Ryzen Pro 3000-series and Athlon Pro 300-series processors to its partners. HP and Lenovo are expected to be the first to offer commercial laptops based on the new APUs. Other manufacturers are projected to follow later in 2019.
The Ryzen Pro-branded parts feature four cores with or without SMT, whereas the Athlon Pro device has two cores. All of the APUs have an integrated Radeon Vega GPU, yet with a different configuration. The new APUs feature a TDP of up to 15 W and are therefore aimed at ultra-portable laptops.
AMD’s own tests show that its Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U is ~1% better than the 8650U in PCMark and up to double in performance when graphics comes into the mix. GPU-intensive workloads are the ones where AMD’s APUs outshine Intel’s CPUs. Meanwhile, general-purpose performance of AMD’s and Intel’s processors for commercial laptops is very close, according to AMD.
| AMD’s 2nd Gen Ryzen Pro Specifications | |||||||
| Cores Threads |
Frequency | Cache L2 + L3 |
GPU | TDP | |||
| Base | Boost | ||||||
| Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U | 4/8 | 2.3 GHz | 4.0 GHz | 6 MB | Vega 10 | 15 W | |
| Ryzen 5 Pro 3500U | 2.1 GHz | 3.7 GHz | Vega 8 | ||||
| Ryzen 3 Pro 3300U | 4/4 | 2.1 GHz | 3.5 GHz | Vega 6 | |||
| Athlon Pro 300U | 2/4 | 2.4 GHz | 3.3 GHz | 5 MB | Vega 3 | ||
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Wow, i’ve been in the gaming and entertainment business since early 2013 at the start of the huge ramp-up of E-Sports and Cryptocurrency.
After several thousands of dollars invested in improving performance, just to save a couple seconds of processing time a day, this is it.
This is a big deal.
I haven’t heard of such an upgrade of generations of AMD since 2001 or 2006/2007.
This is huge.
I am speechless.
Not only will I recommend this to any one else in the industry, I will demand that they meet this spec’s.
This is the new standard.
No words can describe the amount of joy and nerdgasm going on right now.
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