Ryzen has been a huge hit for AMD, helping them turn a profit for the first time in years. However, the current line-up has not included integrated graphics, and their mobile line-up has been dead in the water for years. AMD is hoping to regain some of its market share in the mobile space with the launch of 2 Ryzen/Vega based mobile chips, the Ryzen 7 2700U and Ryzen 5 2500U.
The new chips offer 4 cores with up to 10 Vega compute units, and a unified power delivery system all in under 15W, with AMD touting +200% CPU performance and +128% GPU performance over its previous generation of laptop processors. HP, Lenovo and Acer are releasing laptops based on the Ryzen Mobile hardware today (or soon), and we expect to see more OEMs at CES in January with their offerings. Both of the chips will also have simultaneous multi-threading, giving eight threads total. The rated base clock for the processors will be in the 2.0 GHz range, although AMD states that the typical all-core turbo will be much higher than this.
AMD Ryzen Mobile APUs | |||
Ryzen 7 2700U | Ryzen 5 2500U | FX-9800P | |
| CPU | Quad-Core with SMT 2.2 GHz Base 3.8 GHz Turbo Zen Cores, 14nm | Quad-Core with SMT 2.0 GHz Base 3.8 GHz Turbo Zen Cores, 14nm | Dual Module 2.7 GHz Base 3.6 GHz Turbo Excavator, 28nm |
| GPU | Vega 10 10 CUs (640 SPs) Up to 1300 MHz | Vega 8 8 CUs (512 SPs) Up to 1100 MHz | GCN 1.2 8 CUs (512 SPs) Up to 758 MHz |
| TDP | 15W | 15W | 15W |
| DRAM | Up to DDR4-2400 | Up to DDR4-2400 | Up to DDR4-1866 |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB/core | 512 KB/core | 1 MB/module |
| L3 Cache | 1 MB/core | 1 MB/core | – |
| PCIe Lanes | ? | ? | 8 x PCIe 3.0 |
| Die Size | ? | ? | 250.4 mm2 |
| Transistors | ? | ? | 3.1 billion |
| Launch | October 2017 | October 2017 | May 2016 |
Part of the release has included the announcement of 3 laptops, the HP Envy X360, the Lenovo Ideapad 720S and the Acer Swift 3
