AMD Announcements From CES 2020: Ryzen 4000 Mobile Series, Radeon RX 5600 XT

[Veerappan]

15 watts for a 8c/16t laptop APU? I'd prefer that it was at least Vega 10/11 instead of 8 and I'll take a look at the rest of the lineup later, but I will definitely be buying my new laptop this year (replacing a 2009 13" MacBook pro).

[tildearrow]

The pages for VCE and VCN in Wikipedia are so elusive: The section for VCE 4.0/4.1 has NO information at all, and same for VCN 2.0. It looks like AMD is being lazy here.

I just am tired that it is 2020 and AMD still does not provide 4:4:4 encoding/decoding support. NVIDIA did it with Maxwell. Intel did it with Ice Lake. So why not AMD?!

Also see zxy_thf's point below.

[Guest]

Phoronix: AMD Announcements From CES 2020: Ryzen 4000 Mobile Series, Radeon RX 5600 XT

The Radeon RX 5600 XT was officially announced. As expected, this Navi card "ultimate 1080p gaming" card has 36 compute units, 1375MHz game clock, 1560MHz boost clock, 6GB GDDR6 video memory.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-Announcements

Already obsolete, like lower end Nvidia cards. Just make 8 GB of VRAM a standard, since games require it to max out textures.

At least they announced laptop CPUs that are powerful enough to compete with high-end Intel offerings that make for nice workstations. Now, it's just a matter of waiting for a P series ThinkPad with such a CPU, and hoping Lenovo won't botch it…

[zxy_thf]

The pages for VCE and VCN in Wikipedia are so elusive: The section for VCE 4.0/4.1 has NO information at all, and same for VCN 2.0. It looks like AMD is being lazy here.

I just am tired that it is 2020 and AMD still does not provide 4:4:4 encoding/decoding support. NVIDIA did it with Maxwell. Intel did it with Ice Lake. So why not AMD?!

VP9 is another big bummer and imo it's more important for laptops, because YouTube defaults to VP9 and a browser extension has to be installed to use H264...

[c117152]

Already obsolete, like lower end Nvidia cards. Just make 8 GB of VRAM a standard, since games require it to max out textures.

The maxed out textures are for 4k.

[Mario Junior]

The pages for VCE and VCN in Wikipedia are so elusive: The section for VCE 4.0/4.1 has NO information at all, and same for VCN 2.0. It looks like AMD is being lazy here.

I just am tired that it is 2020 and AMD still does not provide 4:4:4 encoding/decoding support. NVIDIA did it with Maxwell. Intel did it with Ice Lake. So why not AMD?!

Also see zxy_thf's point below.

Because RTG is a shit! AMD os only good for now on CPUs.

[caligula]

15 watts for a 8c/16t laptop APU? I'd prefer that it was at least Vega 10/11 instead of 8 and I'll take a look at the rest of the lineup later, but I will definitely be buying my new laptop this year (replacing a 2009 13" MacBook pro).

Doubling the number of cores only doubles the power consumption (assuming equal load across the cores). Doubling the frequency may almost quadruple the consumption. That's why it's cheaper to cram in more cores than higher freq.

[tildearrow]

Because RTG is a shit! AMD os only good for now on CPUs.

False. Look at how Polaris/Vega outperformed NVIDIA in some tasks.

[juno]

Now if only AMD supported coreboot.

[pegasus]

15 watts for a 8c/16t laptop APU?

Way too much in my opinion. It is configurable down to 12w tdp, but that's still twice the tdp of my current desktop, which is three years old. Come on AMD, you're practically forcing me to buy Intel again.