AMD believes that the current trend in the business PC market is that both professional features and quality home environments are needed on the same mobile system; laptops must support advanced project collaboration; and also have enough power for heavy loads. It was with an eye on these trends that the new second-generation Ryzen Pro and Athlon Pro APUs were created.
The company presented 4 products with maximum power consumption in the region of 15 watts. They replace the first-generation Ryzen Pro and Athlon Pro APU family introduced in May 2018 and expanded in September. You should not expect too big changes - basically we are talking about a slight increase in frequencies.
The simplest entry-level Athlon Pro 300U can offer only 2 CPU cores (4 threads) running at 2,4 GHz (maximum 3,3 GHz) and integrated Radeon Vega 3 graphics. More powerful 4-core Ryzen 3 Pro 3300U chip endowed with 4 CPU cores (4 threads), operating at a frequency of 2,1 GHz (maximum - 3,5 GHz), and integrated graphics Radeon Vega 6.
Finally, Ryzen 5 Pro 3500U and Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U are 4-core 8-thread processors with Vega 8 and Vega 10 graphics respectively. The frequency formula of the former is 2,1/3,7 GHz, and the latter is 2,3/4 GHz .
As a result, according to AMD, the new family brings an increase in multi-threaded performance by up to 16%, allows you to create laptops with autonomy from 12 hours in normal tasks and up to 10 hours of video viewing; includes support for data encryption and a security coprocessor. Compared to the Ryzen 7 Pro 2700U, the new Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U chip does not provide a particularly strong increase, but compared to the popular AMD Pro A12-9800B accelerated processor, the new chip's power is impressive: up to 60% in PC Mark 10, up to 128% in 3D Mark 11 and up to 187% in Cinebench NT.
AMD is pitting the Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U against the Intel Core i7-8650U and Core i7-7600U processors. In normal CPU tasks (PC Mark 10), the products are roughly equal; in the multi-threaded Cinebench CPU test, the brainchild of AMD slightly outperforms the Core i7-8650U and twice outperforms the Core i7-7600U; Finally, in the test, the 3700U graphics is out of reach for both Intel solutions.
AMD notes that the Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U is roughly equal to the Intel Core i7-8650U in CPU tasks like compressing 7-Zip, working in Microsoft Office, or surfing the web in Internet Explorer. But in GPU computing tasks, 3D modeling and visualization, the increase varies from 36% to 258%. Approximately the same situation is observed when comparing the Ryzen 5 Pro 3500U with the Core i5-8350U.
Reminds AMD of its APU support for multiple displays (up to two 4K and up to four 1080p), HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort outputs, hardware 4K video decoding in H.265 and VP9 formats, ShartShift and FreeSync technologies, as well as various security features. .
Well, it remains to wait for real laptop models based on these APUs. AMD says we may soon see high-end Ryzen Pro 3000 mobile PCs from HP and Lenovo.
Source: 3dnews.ru