AMD Announces Second Generation Ryzen Mobile for Notebooks, Including Chromebooks Intel Terminal Appears One by One

Prior to CES 2019 , which opens in Las Vegas, USA on January 8, 2019 in local time, AMD introduced the second generation " Ryzen Mobile " processor that adopts the "Zen +" microarchitecture. Note PCs that adopt the Ryzen Mobile APU "3000" series that rival Intel exceeds the total performance of CPU & GPU are also expected to be released one after another.

AMD at CES 2019: Ryzen Mobile 3000-Series Launched, 2nd Gen Mobile at 15 W and 35 W, and Chromebooks
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The 2nd generation Ryzen APU "Ryzen Mobile" processor is a mobile APU for notebook PC combining "Zen +" for CPU and "Vega" for GPU. The first generation Ryzen Mobile , known for its codename "Raven Ridge", was manufactured in a 14 nm process, while the second generation Ryzen Mobile is manufactured in a 12 nm process.

In the 2nd generation Ryzen Mobile 3000 series, in addition to the model with a TDP of 15 W for a general notebook PC, a high power model for a gaming note PC with a new TDP of 35 W is added. Both are ranked from the top model of 4 core / 8 threads to the low model of 2 core / 4 thread, covering all the notebook PC market.

ASUS has announced the gaming notebook PC " FX505DY TUF GAMING " to conform with AMD's announcement. The FX505DY is equipped with "Ryzen 7 3750H", the discrete GPU "Radeon RX 560X" for mobile, the top model that adopts DDR 4-2400 memory of 32 GB, and adopting a 15.6 inch liquid crystal display operating at 120 Hz corresponding to FreeSync Thing.

According to AMD the general notebook PC replacement cycle is "5 years". For this reason, AMD is comparing the 2nd generation Ryzen Mobile processor with Intel's Broadwell CPU for notebook PCs to be replaced, AMD is 10-22% for Web workload by PCMark 10, 50% for general workload, It is clarifying that it has realized high speed of.

In addition, "Ryzen 5 3500 U" is 14% for PCMark 10 and 27% for Photoshop filtering for Intel CPU "Core i 5 - 8250 U", "Ryzen 7 3700 U" for Intel's "Core i 7 - 8565 U" It seems to be recording 20 to 40% higher number at the average frame rate of game Rocket League, DOTA 2, Fortnite (720 p Low setting) and said that the second generation Ryzen Mobile 3000 series is superior to the current Intel CPU I will.

Also, to introduce APU to "Chromebook" with Chrome OS developed by Google, AMD has two kinds of APU "AMD A 6-9220 C" and "AMD A 4 - 9120 C" adopted Excavator micro architecture with TDP of 6 W Has been announced.

According to AMD the Chromebook market is growing at 8% per year, despite the fact that Intel is not focusing much. Chromebook "Chromebook 14" equipped with the first AMD APU has already been released from HP, and Chromebook with AMD APU will appear from various manufacturers in the future.

AMD expects many products equipped with the new APU to be announced on CES 2019, and expects it to be released to the market in the first quarter of 2019. In the notebook PC & Chromeook market dominated by Intel, it seems that AMD will cut in 2019.

By the way, AMD's Lisa Su, CEO of AMD on January 9, 2019 will be holding a keynote address, among which there may be an announcement about "3rd generation Ryzen processor" for desktop adopting "Zen 2" microarchitecture I do not.