The first synthetic benchmarks of the Raven Ridge APU, AMD Ryzen 7 2700U, are seen, which are based on Zen cores such as AMD Ryzen and Vega graphics.
Little by little, new information is being known about AMD's Raven Ridge APUs, which will have Zen cores, such as AMD Ryzen processors. Specifically, new data has been revealed through a benchmark of the AMD Ryzen 7 2700U processor, which will have four cores and eight processing threads working at a frequency of 2.2GHz and graphics from the Vega architecture are integrated, with a total TDP of 35W. The Vega graphics are not the most energy efficient in the world, but the TDP is nothing, but not bad.
The benchmark in question is under 3DMark 11, where the AMD Ryzen 7 2700U gives a score of 4212 points and a graphical score of 4072 points, but in the field of Physics Core it has given 6419 points and the combined score is 3353 points. . If we compare it with the Intel Core i5 8205U processor, which gives 6568 points, while in the graphics section, if it is compared with the NVIDIA GTX MX150, which gives a total of 4570 points, we see that these new APUs have great potential and they will present a great battle.
The data at a technical level are very good and the TDP seems quite restrained, but then it remains to be seen what the real graphic power is, knowing how many Stream Processors they will have and the frequency at which the GPU will work, since in the image it appears at 300MHz, although possibly those data are erroneous. If the final consumption, which we do not know, is correct and gives a correct autonomy, we could see an ideal solution for ultrabooks.
Source: eTeknix
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It would be better if some manufacturer is encouraged to request a custom SoC as in the SP4 and XBX consoles, based on Zen from a 4/4 configuration to an 8/16, with a relatively modest GPU, but I think it would save a lot of consumption and TDP without force the VEGA architecture and have something with power between a 1060 and a 1070 ... or at least like the 1060
Hi Rober, will we see any gamign notebooks with ryzen processors? an msi with ryzen 1600 or 1700 with amd or nvidia graphics ?, or will that never happen?
In the first place, these processors will be more focused on the professional environment and not so much on gaming given their power / consumption, in the second it is almost impossible for them to use desktop processors either from Intel or AMD in laptops because they consume too much.
Asus already has a lap with an r7 1700 or a r5 1600 and an rx470 gpu with mxm shape
https://www.asus.com/mx/Laptops/ROG-Strix-GL702ZC/