The Sunnyvale giant has unveiled in partnership with the new Ryzen 5000 Mobile, a generation of low-power, high-performance APUs that is based, unsurprisingly, on the new zen architecture 3. This means that they maintain the 7nm manufacturing process, and almost all the changes that allowed a huge increase in the CPI against Zen 2.
As they are low-power APUs, the main focus of the new Ryzen 5000 Mobile APUs is to lightweight laptops, convertibles, two-in-one, and ultraportables. During the presentation, AMD has not hesitated to show its chest by saying that it is the only company that offers low-power solutions with eight-core processors and sixteen threads.
The performance improvement that AMD has achieved with the Ryzen 5000 Mobile is important, but we must bear in mind that this has been associated with contained consumption, both for autonomy and temperature issues (in fact the TDP of 15 watts is maintained), and that therefore the generational jump, in terms of gross power compared to the Ryzen 4000 Mobile, is not as marked as that which occurred between the Ryzen 3000 and Ryzen 5000.
Ryzen 5000 Mobile vs. the competition: unrivaled in multi-threaded
That is the first thing that Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, wanted to make clear in her presentation. As we can see from the attached graphics, the new Ryzen 7 5800U, the great standard bearer of the Ryzen 5000 Mobile series, has 8 cores and 16 threads, and has a 4.4 GHz turbo mode, which Allows you to outperform the Intel Core i7 1185G7 by up to 44% in multi-threaded environments like Adobe Premiere. In PCMark 10 the improvement is more discreet, and barely reaches 7%.
Taking a look at the autonomy, we find maximum values that, according to AMD, can reach 17 and a half hours for each battery charge with general use, and that shoots up to 21 hours if we limit ourselves to playing video. They are really good values, which place this new generation of processors in a very competitive position.
This means, in short, that the new ultraportables equipped with Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors will not only offer a high level of performance, both in single and multi-threaded applications, but also have a good enough autonomy to cRun, without problems, a whole day of work with each battery charge.
AMD doesn’t forget about gamers: new Ryzen 5000 HX
The Ryzen 5000 Mobile have aroused great interest, but the Ryzen 5000 HX have not been far behind. These new high-performance APUs mount a Zen 3 processor with up to eight cores and sixteen threads, they come with the multiplier unlocked (support overclocking), have a configurable TDP of 45 watts and reach a maximum of 4.8 GHz in turbo mode (an active nucleus).
As we can see in the attached image, its L3 cache is 16MB. The Ryzen 7 5800X, based on Zen 3 and configured with 8 cores and 16 threads, add 32 MB of L3 cache, which means that those Ryzen 5000 HX are going to be below desktop models in terms of CPI. All in all, they manage to outperform Ryzen 4000 APUs without issue.
In the attached graph, we can see a series of performance tests that AMD has shared during the presentation, and the result is fantastic, since the Ryzen 9 5980HX is capable of outperforming Intel’s Core i9 10980HK in single-wire performance, and by a quite large difference (13%). I am very struck by the 35% performance difference in favor of the Ryzen in Passmark, especially considering that both chips have 8 cores and 16 threads.
Lisa Su also showed in a screenshot two designs of Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards that have not yet been presented, but that perfectly match the rumored ones. Radeon RX 6700 (dual fan design) and Radeon RX 6600-RX 6500 (design of a fan).
Ryzen 5000 Mobile and Ryzen 5000 HX Specifications
Ryzen 7 5800U
- Zen 3 architecture in 7nm process.
- Integrated GPU without specifying.
- 8 cores and 16 threads at a maximum of 4.4 GHz (turbo mode, one active core).
- 4MB L2 cache.
- 16MB L3 cache.
- 15 watt TDP (configurable).
Ryzen 9 5980HX
- Zen 3 architecture in 7nm process.
- Integrated GPU without specifying.
- 8 cores and 16 threads at a maximum of 4.8 GHz (turbo mode, one active core).
- 4MB L2 cache.
- 16MB L3 cache.
- 45 watt TDP (configurable).
Ryzen 9 5900HX
- Zen 3 architecture in 7nm process.
- Integrated GPU without specifying.
- 8 cores and 16 threads at a maximum of 4.6 GHz (turbo mode, one active core).
- 4MB L2 cache.
- 16MB L3 cache.
- 45 watt TDP (configurable).
In the image above you will find the complete series of Ryzen 5000 Mobile and Ryzen 5000HX chips planning to launch AMD. As we can see, units based on Zen 3 and Zen 2 will arrive. In the table below you can find the complete specifications of each of these chips, courtesy of VideoCardz, which has compiled them.
