Ryzen has been a success for AMD. While Vega GPUs are still a bit hard to find due to its stocks being so low, no one can deny that this year has been the revival of AMD in the high-end desktop space. Intel, however, is still king of the hill on the mobile market with their low TDP processors for the mobile market.
While Ryzen has been implemented in gaming laptops such as ASUS’ ROG Strix GL702ZC, the red team has yet to penetrate the ultra-thin market space. Well, AMD is planning to change that with Ryzen mobile CPUs.
AMD is planning for two chips to infiltrate the mobile market: the Ryzen 7 2700U and the Ryzen 5 2500U. Much like their desktop cousins, the Ryzen mobile chips uses AMD’s a CPU Complex (CCX). Unlike the desktop variants, however, the mobile CPUs will only have a single CCX which has four cores and eight threads with 4MB of L3 Cache.
Replacing the other CCX are Vega compute units for graphics processing. The Ryzen 7 2700U will have 10 compute units while the Ryzen 5 version will have eight compute units. As far as clock speeds go, the 2700U has a base clock speed of 2.2GHz with a boost of 3.8GHz while the 2500U has a 2.0GHz base clock and 3.6GHz boost clock. On the GPU front, the 2700U will have a boost clock of 1300MHz while the 2500U will clock up to 1100MHz.
Since power is an important factor, AMD has also lowered the power requirements of their Ryzen mobile chips. Both chips are configurable between 12W up to 25W with a nominal power draw of 15W. This means that manufacturers can either gear their notebooks for performance, power efficiency, or somewhere in between.
Initial designs for laptops has already been detailed by AMD. Three notebooks have been teased from HP, Lenovo, and Acer. Though much is unknown about the real-world performance of these notebooks, it is expected that some of them will retail this Holiday. Check out the upcoming notebooks with the new Ryzen mobile chips:
We’ll know more about the overall performance and the changes AMD will be bringing in the mobile notebook market come CES 2018 on early January.
