AMD announces Ryzen 7 mobile APUs with Vega Graphics

[HEXUS]

Socking it to the latest Intel 8th Gen U-series CPUs.

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[jimbouk]

Fingers crossed they don't get hobbled by hard drives like all the previous AMD laptops. Looks good from the 3 samples above!

[Bagnaj97]

Large Intel kickbacks to OEMs in 3... 2... 1...

[LSG501]

Looks to have potential but it's battery life I'm more interested in when it comes to a laptop/tablet these days if I'm honest. Hopefully they'll live up to their claims.

[Firejack]

Fingers crossed they don't get hobbled by hard drives like all the previous AMD laptops. Looks good from the 3 samples above!

Likewise lets hope these systems ship with 2 sticks of memory for dual channel operation. I've owned a two AMD Laptops in the past. Both came with 1x4GB of DDR3 and it crippled the performance in games.

[Nobull]

Really can't wait until these hit the shelves. Hope you can get one for something approaching £700.

[kalniel]

I was about to push the button on an Intel+nVidia laptop combo.. will wait a bit to see if decent business laptops come out with these new chips.

[The Khemist]

17" HD Screen with 2700U in please! =)

[Pleiades]

Lenovo appears to use Single channel RAM... strange choice, esp. with a UHD display.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I was about to push the button on an Intel+nVidia laptop combo.. will wait a bit to see if decent business laptops come out with these new chips.

Looking at the AT and NBC articles,only two of the three initial models have dual channel RAM:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11964...nd-updated-zen
https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ry....260136.0.html

However,those two models also apparently ship with single channel RAM in the Intel versions.

[Nobull]

Would like to see these benchmarked against the MX150 from Nvidia. I was seriously considering getting an ultraportable with one of those in it for a good compromise between work and play. But they are like £900 at the cheapest unless you import the Xioami Mi Air from Gearbeast at £615. Personally I'm not prepared to risk that much money.

[yeeeeman]

They actually look like good buys considering the CPU and GPU performance that these new puppies have.

[yeeeeman]

You can check it on notebookcheck.net, they have benchmarks with MX150 and others. Performance is 10-20% less but in the same ballpark as the mx150, for a few dollars less.

[kalniel]

Looking at the AT and NBC articles,only two of the three initial models have dual channel RAM:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11964...nd-updated-zen
https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ry....260136.0.html

However,those two models also apparently ship with single channel RAM in the Intel versions.

Single channel isn't a big problem, more important for me to get four real cores, 16gb RAM and a little bit of hardware GPU acceleration.

[Xlucine]

So are these zen+ cores, going by the 2XXX branding?

Would like to see these benchmarked against the MX150 from Nvidia. I was seriously considering getting an ultraportable with one of those in it for a good compromise between work and play. But they are like £900 at the cheapest unless you import the Xioami Mi Air from Gearbeast at £615. Personally I'm not prepared to risk that much money.

Arstechnica got a different slide pack that included a comparison with the 950M:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017...out-the-water/

Based on pure compute (clock speed * core count), the 950M and MX150 are essentially the same - so the 2700U alone matches an intel CPU paired with a decent nvidia GPU

Oddly enough, arstechnica's slide pack claimed 12W maximum TDP-down consumption whereas hexus & anandtech say 9W

[Corky34]

Single channel isn't a big problem, more important for me to get four real cores, 16gb RAM and a little bit of hardware GPU acceleration.

If anything I'd say using single channel is what you want in a notebook and other low power devices, unless you're doing tasks that are pushing large amounts of data around you're probably better off as it lowers latency and power draw.