AMD at CES 2020: space for Ryzen 4000 for increasingly powerful notebooks

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Amd At Ces 2020: Space For Ryzen 4000 For Increasingly
Amd At Ces 2020: Space For Ryzen 4000 For Increasingly

A large number of announcements made by AMD at its press conference at CES 2020 in Las Vegas:

New CPUs and GPUs for notebook systems are at the centre, without neglecting the world of HEDT desktop systems with the first 64-core processor of this family

For some years now, the CES in Las Vegas has been an event of great announcements for AMD related to its processors, with particular emphasis on solutions for notebooks. The 2020 edition of the CES does not escape this rule, with the announcement of the first Ryzen 4000 series processors. These are models with integrated GPU, especially intended for notebooks. This is an extremely important market for AMD, which for the first time seems to have a range of processors capable of rivalling Intel’s competing solutions.

The peculiarity of these processors is that they are available in versions with up to 8 cores (and 16 threads) intended for thin and compact systems, a result that implies a doubling in the number of cores made available compared to those of the previous generation offered by AMD. The 7 nanometers Zen 2 architecture has made it possible to integrate this number of processors keeping the TDP within 15 Watts which are the standard ones for thinner notebook systems.

AMD will also offer these processors in the H family, with TDPs between 35 Watts and 45 Watts with higher clock rates for notebooks intended for gamers and those seeking maximum personal productivity. For the Ryzen U CPU, the top of the range proposal will be the Ryzen 7 4800U, 8-core model with a base clock frequency of 1.8 GHz capable of touching a maximum frequency of 4.2 GHz and equipped with a GPU with 8 Radeon cores. internally (for a total of 512 shaders).

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Moving on to the H processor family, the Ryzen 7 4800H model integrates the same number of cores and a maximum frequency always equal to 4.2 GHz, however starting from a base clock value of 2.9 GHz with a TDP equal to 45 Watts. The performance that this CPU is capable of exceeds those of competing desktop models equipped with the same number of cores, as indicated by AMD: this obviously happens in those areas of use in which all 16 threads that can be used are exploited. be processed in parallel.

The following table shows all the versions of the Ryzen 4000 processor that AMD has announced at CES 2020 and which will be integrated into the notebooks expected on the market in the coming months.

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Cores / Threads

TDP base
clock
Boost
clock
GPU cores Cache
Ryzen 7
4800H
8/16 45W 2,9GHz 4,2GHz 7 12
Ryzen 5
4600H
6/12 45W 3GHz 4GHz 6 11
Ryzen 7
4800U
8/16 15W 1.8GHz 4,2GHz 8 12
Ryzen 7
4700u
8/8 15W 2GHz 4,1GHz 7 12
Ryzen 5
4600U
6/12 15W 2.1GHz 4GHz 6 11
Ryzen 5 4500U 6/6 15W 2.3GHz 4GHz 6 11
Ryzen 3 4300U 4/4 15W 2.7GHz 3,7GHz 5 6

As for the GPU component, AMD has indicated how various optimizations implemented at the architectural level have allowed obtaining a performance increase of over 50% compared to the previous generation Ryzen 3000 CPUs. This result allowed, for the CPUs of the U family characterized by a 15 Watt TDP, to distance the competing CPUs of the tenth generation Core family based on the Ice Lake architecture.

Another announcement concerns the mid-range GPU solutions with the Radeon RX 5600XT cards, a card that the company indicates to be the reference for gamers who want to use the resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. The architecture is obviously Navi, with 36 compute units for a total of 2,304 stream processors; the base clock frequency is 1,375 MHz with a boost clock that goes up to 1,560 MHz. The amount of GDDR6 memory of 6 Gbytes clearly suggests that the memory bus is 192bit wide. The Radeon RX 5600XT cards will be available globally from January 21, for a price list of $ 279 excluding taxes in North America.

AMD also intends to introduce on the market versions of the Radeon RX 5600 and Radeon RX 5700 cards specifically designed for notebook gaming systems, characterized by the suffix M. Specific information is currently missing but it is conceivable that the first notebook systems based on these GPUs will debut in pairing with Ryzen 4000 processors announced today and on the market during the first quarter of the year.

AMD Smartshift is a new technology developed by AMD that allows you to dynamically manage resources between CPU and GPU, obviously with AMD technology, giving priority in terms of power and thermal resources to the component that needs it most. Its implementation takes place via software and is under development at the present time: in the first tests, AMD obtained an increase of frames per second with notebooks compatible with this technology of about 10%, a result obtained by dynamically moving the power resources to the component that mostly affects performance. The first notebooks based on Ryzen 4000 processors of the H family, with Radeon RX 5600M GPU and AMD Smartshift technology, will debut during the second quarter with a first model announced by Dell, the G5 SE notebook.

To complete the news of AMD we find the Ryzen Threadripper processors, with the new top of the range proposal Ryzen Threadripper 3990X equipped with 64 cores inside. The existence of this processor had already been anticipated by AMD last November, coinciding with the debut of the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and Ryzen Threadripper 3970X CPUs equipped respectively with 24 and 32 cores internally. For Ryzen Threadripper 3990X we find a base clock frequency of 2.9 GHz and a peak frequency of 4.3 GHz; the TDP remains unchanged at 280 Watts while the price is $ 3,990, exactly double that of the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X model which offers half the number of cores. The debut on the market is expected from February 7th.

A press conference that does not disappoint that of AMD at CES 2020, full of announcements and which clearly suggests how the American company wants this year to repeat in the world of notebook systems the success collected in the last 2 years with desktop systems. At the centre are the Ryzen processors of the 4000 families and the novelties expected from the GPU sector, with a specialization of Navi architecture also for notebook systems. Now the word goes to notebook manufacturers, with whom AMD has announced that it has completed over 100 system design wins that will debut over the next few months.

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