AMD Announces Ryzen 4000 Renoir APUs, For OEM Market ONLY

AMD Announced New Ryzen 4000 Renoir APUs for OEM Systems. These new Zen4000 architecture Ryzen 2 processors will not be available in retail stores. They are exclusive solutions for the pre-configured computer market. They are based on the Zen2 architecture, like the Ryzen 3000 and are accompanied by Radeon RX Vega graphics. Along with the Ryzen 4000 APUs, AMD has announced the Athlon 3000G Series and Ryzen PRO 400G.

AMD Ryzen 4000 Renoir APUs officially released

These new Renoir chips are based on the 7nm lithography and Zen2 architecture. The big news is that the top-of-the-range model will be an 7-core 8-thread Ryzen 16 with a Vega iGPU. Below we have the 5-core, 6-thread Ryzen 12 and the 3-core and 4-thread Ryzen 8.

According to AMD, these Zen2 processors arrive with redesigned Vega iGPUs offering up to 60% more performance per Compute Unit than predecessor APUs. The company indicates that with fewer Compute Units we will have better performance.

Ryzen 4000Gs offer 25% more performance on a single thread and up to 2.5 times more performance on multithreaded tasks. This gives OEM systems enthusiast-class performance. A similar decision, indicates AMD, than the one made with the Threadripper PRO that are exclusive to Lenovo Workstations.

AMD indicates that this decision to launch them only to the OEM market responds to the fact that this market is four or five times larger than the market for custom computers. They emphasize that the idea of ​​the Ryzen 4000 Renoir is to take market share from Intel in the OEM segment.

The first OEM equipment will arrive from Dell, HP and Lenovo, going on sale during the month of August 2020.

New Athlon 3000 G Series

These new processors are based on the Zen + @ 12nm architecture, so they are not based on 7nm. They are accompanied by Radeon Vega graphics, although no further information has been given. We see that it copies the Gold and Silver terminology used by Intel. These processors may only be available on OEM systems.

Solutions for the professional segment

For the professional segment, with advanced security requirements, we have the Ryzen PRO 4000 APUs. These new solutions have Memory Guard and Secure Processor, two proprietary AMD technologies. The company indicates that they are up to 31% more powerful than competitive solutions and up to 43% more efficient.

Source: TH